Show RUNNING GIRLS with some observations Observation a that apply to ta tile ll 31 ulda aldaus of washington it used to bo be said that there were two things which a woman could not do one was to ruu tho the other to throw a stone up to the list last census she had not learned to do the latter feat but at the former sho was an adopt adept those who doubt may be ba convinced if some wet morning they will tako take a street car and observe serve the young ladies come down the cross streets aust a second or tac later than they intended to be on these occasions they will bo be tolerably suro to see some of tile prettiest sprinting imaginable straight str ii ht dean clean stepp stepping ingi with head well up shoulders well back and never it a trace of waddle the observer feels feela that the fair air f creature is dressed in shoes and garments that do not pinch and whon she takes her seat in the car breathing h as gently as a baby he is apt if his years number a couple of score or more to sigh inwardly tor for the time he could have run runa a block or a dozen of them and have breath enough left to keep him from gapp g az 7 mg ing tho the last generation of girls could not run they were told it was hoydenish and tomboyish an and d everything else to do so they were forbidden byall by all the canons canon of good behavior and propriety to go faster than a walk like a team crossing a country bridge if by any mischance it became ill absolutely sol necessary for them to run the way they went at etwas it was calculated to mako make a man weep they wriggled they waddled they stepped on the side of their feet they held their heads down to hide their blushes and they puffed like porpoises when they had gone gon 0 half a dozen yards there were a few ex of nf course but now the exceptions are the other way croquet was the first step toward emancipation and tennis was tho the colsum consummation ma of it ren imore cooper tells us in his charming way of the grace and beauty of motion exhibited by the fleet footed indian girl mayne reid paints vivid word pictures of the impossible female aborigines of northern mexico as they seemed to fly so swift were their footsteps but it would atwould be safe backing a seattle girl on a wet morning in 0 when w hen she wants to catch a street car against any dusky maiden of fact or fiction for speed and as for grace beauty the je no ne sais quoi the tout ensemble so to speak of the fair until some poet has ha been born and bred on this coast we need not hope to see justice done them by words ot of description until then we lay this tribute at the feet the very pretty feet indeed of the seattle girl who runs to bateh a street car and let it be added that she is usually a girl who is one of the army of workers god bless her and may her pathway ever be smooth may she rutland run and never grow weary seattle telegraph |