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Show I Athletics For Women. j In the memorial building of the Young Women 's Christian association in Brooklyn Brook-lyn is a gymnasium which was opened last season. It has been constructed to j meet the need3 of young women who, can give only the evening hours to ath letic exercise and pay only a nominal sum. In addition to the gymnasium hall, with its visitors' gallery and elevated ele-vated running track, are dressing rooms, bathrooms and needle baths. For the modest sum of 5 cents any woman, whether a member or not of the gymnasium, gymna-sium, can have a bath. The work in the gym comprises three grades calis-thenic, calis-thenic, gymnastic and corrective. Corsets Cor-sets and close fitting waists are prohibited prohib-ited in all grades of work. Among the women well known in Brooklyn society who are generous supporters of the as sociation are Mrs. Samuel B. Dnryea, Mrs. Clark Burnham, Mrs. Q. H. Prentiss Pren-tiss and Mrs. C. W. Ida One of the prettiest of gymnastic exercises ex-ercises a new one is that in which the line of girls moves in an elaborate arabesque or scroll, winding around in concentric circles and then unwinding to form a long line moving down the length of the room in skillfully planned plan-ned curves. The music grows slower and slower until the line finally comes to a standstill, when the girls take their places for other exercises. Brooklyn Eagle. |