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THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1922. You Be an All Round Woman Athlete? Then, Like Adeline Gehrig, Fencing Cham- pion and Winner of Track and Field Meet ' Events, You Must Eat but One Hearty » . ° ‘ ® is. Meal a Day, Hike Often and Work in . 4 ‘ym ree Nights Eac eck : 3: : i By Fay Stevenson xhe fs employed os a stenographer of talent. Mr | { sf “it “Of course 1 wouldn't advise every Stuyy at I j wih the runner i id _ cause she might not be able to handle pou aa) H FEW YEARS AGO ® 4 go), put I do se her to be ay Lit full ofa number of Hien { Uttle girl of twelve athletic as she can and to go in for that M johrig can't do half the } over in Newark, N. golf, tennis, basketball or some par- tyings sho wants to do, though J., asked her mother ticular sport which appeals to her. qoos secin ta make pretty good use of tf she might goto the It Will be her ‘lifesaver’ and spare am Wi Hee eateP, . gymnasium after. her from many pains and aches a ut No, 161 East goons afterschool. Her motherthought that terrible “bored feeling Mth st usually starts the “It is true many of the stenogra- to business, whieh a moment and then vigorously shook her head as she eald, ‘1 wouldn't have you go for worlds, for I know you yrould break your neck." But this littlo girl had a will and practice they will find they do not ind of her own and she wanted to tired any more, that this sort of Meta i: a | aed 2 hae h trength in a gym work gives one daily strength, That ere RERITSs OF i De Hy | anol ete eel ape Lie that the average business girl t nasium more than anything else in the Hatarmene BIKA NE wHe! Wikhen tas ¥e phers and business girls will siy 1 are dead tired at night,’ admitted Mise Gehrig, “but after a few de { ywn ai 1th Street. At out for a light is 1 ight indeed,’ de tired feeling never after doing gymnasium work all eve mes over me, and p ; e going to get a spy spirit she starts th world. How was she going to Be! 9 11. y frequently take @ five-mile that peppy spirit sho starts off with gymhasium sult, now that her mother in the morning. Heavy salads and had expressed her opinion tn reward ye rencing was past ld spoil my afternoon, 1 to her pet desire? Well, when mother fails there is always a neighbor or a never eat more than a sandwiel sa an accident,” she recalle only a little over three years ago. J slitss of milk and perhaps a dish of Piel ~ A an _S dlosmatt-y Tul ~~ Na sympathetiz friend who helps one out. V5 footing around the gym and ice cream this time of year, Coffos The little girl turned to her mother’s vi4ea up ono foil after another. 1 is out of my menu entire best, friend and pleaded tor @ “BY™M discarded several until I found one “However, To make up for my suit.” that seemed to suit my grip and then meagre luncheon at night and Ite “If you will just make mea plalM 7 made some lunges and parries in ally ‘ll vp’ with ax much hea Dlack satin suit with bloomers I'll dry piay, 1 hadn't an idea that the pro you for a whole year,” d°- fessor was watching me until he e: clared the little girl, and the elgshbor 45 to Miss Gehrig, wit ha total of six touk her up. Within due time our fencer out of me. twelve-year-old | heroine's shapely «ze y'm not mistaken, you're tho encased in slick black ; limbs w Dioomers, while a glossy black middie Diouse, embroidered with white sill, swung from her supple young shoul- der@; And although the price of this ~ ~ s sult meant drying dishes for a half Pa hour each evening for one whole year = ‘ j this energetic little girl was happy, for she was now eligible to join a class stuff that champions are mude of ‘ in the gymnasium, And, strange to remarked, and so that night I joinc } say, within half an hour the teacher the girls’ fencing 7 in charge noticed her good work and = And it was in March of this yeu ~} she was placed at the head of the that Miss Gehrig proved the proph i line’ cies of her professor for the third “St This little girl, who simply would time. Under the auspices of the Ami P&A PHOTOS : go to the gymnasium whether her teur Fencers’ Leaguo of America she mother said ‘yea’ or “‘nay,"’ was retained her national fencing titi } ‘Adeline Gehrig of the New York Turn making a clean sweep of seven bouts Verein, all-around woman athlete of this country and national woman t | fencing champion, She proved she } wouldn't break her neck right from the first day sho entered that little Zé gymnasium over in Newark, and to- Kies @ay her mother ts very proud of this A athletic, sturdy daughter of hers, who i te @ stenographer during the day and — i an athlete evenings, | At the open A. A. U. women’s track ' end field meet at Brighton Beach Field, Long Island, July 4, she scored ° victories in the standing broad jump f j and baseball throw, -ad is the posses- / } wor of three gold medals offered by , the Amateur Fencers’ League of a NY 6 | | | “4 | i } i ZZ] Y j trom passi utos, but most of t | time we hiked f twenty to twenty. fff | two miles each day, We stopped at j Sebago Lake for a duy and thea went j foodinnl he t seems to me that “rectly to Bridgeton, then to Lovell | this ts the ne 1 business 2Pd later to Gorham # ARIAS jows sho But we enjoyed ourselves most going in for ny sort of athletic When we climbed Mt, Washington by . Tuckerman's AVIne. It took t fiv But do M jehrlg spends Hours to climb eight miles but wi herovenines . im. One We reached the top it was well wort bto fencing, While: Here, in a little shack calle holding the record t of the Tip Top House, we remained two d champion, Miss évooing , ; sleeping in bunks at night , ori oerieneis a i is Aye #3 to dance, go to reel igen ee o way into xive - fencing How " la 8 inches, and can “Hiking is the L nthe world Haverhill, N. H., and there we met a ‘ ij ing ‘ Ais anal ta ing eeu ne ee “4 to tuke a vacation," earnestly an- Woman ain of a Boston school ~ ” / ers which could be purchased for a A Baha ocretl nounced Miss Geheig, “My pal, Miss Who took an interest In us and oftered Fi >} w dollars when they might be build~ FMAM Ge in cated Alice Glienke I have been spend- U5 ie ts af her barn, which she had up their constitutions, developing Just y enough to keep in good ing our vacatio 3 way for the last fitted uP Ike @ palace. A number of george of orgundies and fuffy-ruffio lungs and muscles and getting ria’ e Gees four vears, In fact, we are Just back Conservative people of Haverhill we hes to merely sit upon a bh 4 certain amount of pep and vitality ite sport, she goes in for box som a three wecks’ hike In Maine, hither shocked at two young women randa and wait for some nice youn: for the next day? 1 Geneball bi Ten taetta iaee And let me say right here that this 1s apPOsEn sh ickers and such rough man to ask you to walk the board “T like to go to parties and dances, , ing “the sogt, Baad) Gusin, bout the cheay est way toenjuy attire aS he i n the school Principal walk,'* sniffed Miss Gehric. "1 think Lams » be certain that at aesthetic dan hiking and regular self, ‘There are, of course, few explained that we were both ath it is lots more fun to hike out east three nights of my week are full gymnasium practice ‘ wilway or boat expenses to consider sins from New York and spoke of my get sunburned and meet real 1 nd, therefore, my callers have to % ri ing slates, lis Abe:. works and one's chief wardrobe may consist Hational championship in feucing, who like the sume sort of outdoor life take note of my free evenings instead 4 “peu ee ele daa Reade a A ) blouses and they became interested in us and be. you do, If you mest pleasant youns ot my idly waiting for them to date & ' Rint anitdevilone her lo evaw cas . yack {uli of lingerie and fore we left Bave usa big dance.” nen along the Way you make frien the up. Besides" (here Miss Gebrig's GAD. Sane Hie bri Sa pe aan Miss Gehrig admits one makes « with them, but in the mean tim big brown eyes sparkled with youth 0 practises sad'eqontiagtion, Reed ' vent ind | took host of valuable friends on a f of don't just have to sit drow nd health), couldn't live wilthout a OE Wild Petes fence thee eat \ there this type and sitys the average bu h be getting the benefit of sym work any more than T could B Mins Gehrig told me when Tt ther bow Then our neas girl doesn't know what she cation and enjoying every minut tive withoub food. I expect to ‘be her in a large, millinery wholesaic began, We felt tha wanted misses by not taking her vacation this along the road: soning, il. Sraetleie hes Z ans al ir. Sometimes we got @ litt on any fun in buytug a gymnasium work and the nigh cena .