| Show BRAWNY BEAUTY THE WHEEl AND GOLF SaCS ALTERING OLD STANDARDS DIg Wrists and Anlilcs Lean Shanks and Forearms With Knotted Muscles Distinguish thc Athletic I Girl of the Period I The dreadful fate that lately overtook I a handsome figurante engaged to lead a corps of stately ballet girls in a comic j opera now in process of rehearsal has spread astonishment and consternation among women bicyclists who have heard I the story I Lost Her Leadership i In the early spring the young person in i question procured a bicycle joined a club and soon learned to use her wheel with delightful proficiency She made records I for the mere fun of breaking them boasted boast-ed of always pedalling up the steepest young girl on a bicycle The first few times around the ring she almost drops from the machine with exhaustion but to in a week she needs JJD longer instruction or commiseration commiseraton I she is an enthusiastic rider as most women are within a few months her knees will be increased a half inch in circumference both just above and below be-low the joints and the tendons that run along the back of the leg from knee to ankle begin to swell and harden They hurt a bit at first from the unusual exercise exer-cise but after the soreness is over they enlarge and tighten with amazing rapidity rapidi-ty till bye and bye the flesh disappears giving place to a great network of sinews hard as geat wrapped tight I about the bone and throwing out around the knees and ankles an arrangement Ot loops gnarled lumps and hard knobs that utterly destroy what artists call line Now the bigger and harder those sinews grow the more eaSE and pleasure does the rider find in using her wheel and if she Is a woman with a genuine love of outdoor exercise to balance her development she will naturally turn to golf sticks and swing a racquet The system Is unsurpassed for the purpose of acquiring health and endurance but is the death blow to beauty The Drawn Replaces Beauty The golfer in a decolette evening gown displays shoulders rugged with brawn DEVELOPMENT OF ATHLETIC ARMS AND LEGS hills grew as slender and vigorous as a young Diana but the first morning of rehearsal I re-hearsal was relegated from her high position po-sition as the leader of the dancers to aback a-back row in D crowd of village maidens who come on only in the last act The bicycle had played her n trick for where otherwise faultless outlines had made the figure admired and renowned even under the regulation swathings of close silk fleshings now appeared a series of curiouslooking humps and lumps bulging ridges and knots with billowy risings and sinkings calculated to outrage anyones sense of statuesque symmetry I was easy enough to guess the cause of this unusual deevlopment Should Exercise Caution On looking into a book on anatomy the afflicted girl found every hydra headed monster of a muscle dignified by a resounding Latin name The sole cure a physician could suggest was more temperate tem-perate use of the wheel ana time while the only consolation the exdancer finds In her trouble is the thought that ninety nine out of a hundred sister bicyclists must be similarly supplied with sinewy ornamentation As a matter of factwher suspicions have I been confirmed by inquiry and confessions confes-sions among the enthusiastic women bicyclists bicy-clists of her acquaintance to the number of fifty individuals or more whose experience experi-ence very likely extends to the entire feminine element ou wheels with an aggregation ag-gregation of increased muscular girth and strength quite contradicting the ancient insinuation a to who is the weaker sex Arms as Well as Legs However to thewvhccl is not wholly due this growing evplution of the feminine form gowng from the old standards of Greek beauty into hard Amazonian brawniness braw-niness Given n wheel a few golf stIcks and a tennis racquet the modern woman makes all haste with her physical transformation trans-formation merely by the simple process cf bringing her muscles naturally no stouter than good pack thread and buried deep in soft tender flesh up to the surface and rounded to the girth of her thumb Working the Change It is done by the easiest meansthat of mounting D slender and possibly weak where dimples used to play hide and seek a pair of wrists tho average glove I refuses to button over a forearm thin and hard and an upperarm a blacksmith might envy Even the hands from gripping grip-ping and swinging those heavy irontip ped clubs grow a halfinch broader than nature first shaped them horny of palm too showing fingers that unconsciously catch and shake with a clasp of steel this is the very hand and arm that perhaps per-haps a year since was as pink rounded and taper as a babys boasting the easy fit of a five and threequarter glove I is no exaggeration of facts tc say that in the past four years our American women with the aid more especially of the wheel golf clubs and a bit of gymnasium gym-nasium work have entirely reorganized their standards of physical development The Psyche Type n Back Number The girl today who boasts a round slim waist sloping shoulders neat small wrists and ankles with arms and nether limbs moulded on the flowing curves of a Greek Psyche is no longer approved by her sisters nor content with her appearance appear-ance She loses little time reducing herself her-self to plain bone and muscle and for tho last year the records of measurements measure-ments in the womens gymnasiums show i is as easy and as universal to add three inches to a girls waist measure In one season of work as i used to be possible pos-sible to reduce the girth by the aid of the bed post and stout silk corset laces But just In proportionas our women have gained in bone and brawn and good health too i must be admitted the loss in grace has been very great Rosier cheeks and brighter eyes steady exercise bring but i is growing more and more difficult every day say the artists to find proper models and for ballet masters to draw suitable recruits to their service Unless the standards of feminine beautj are readjusted to meet the ideas of the modern woman the feminine element bids fair to disappear wholly from the painters canvas and vanish in an ornamental orna-mental capacity from the stage for I is with her strong right arm the damsel of tho future evidently means to rule |
