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Show (illiLS DON'T LIKE COSTUME Object to Adoption of Bloomers for Physical Culture Work Prof George A Baton, it seams, is not the only urn at lh.- IIIkIi school who Is opposed to ihe adoption of the bloomer costume for th- regular physical work to be done by the gitla of the school. The girls themselves are among Ihe strongest opponents of the new rule, their chief ob-j.-. lion being Ihe loss nf time in changing from the regular drOSS to the blouse and bloomers. Physical Impossibi Jity. Forty-flve minutes Is ihe time allowed for Ihe physical culture classes This means thai the girls must ko from their recltatlon-rooih; no matter In what part 61 iin building thej may be to the dressing-room ; change their regular dress for the physical culture costume, ko through the exercises given by the supervisor of physical culture, again change their clothes and be back ready for another recitation at th end of forty-five mln-Ut mln-Ut s. Most of the Klrl.s look upon li ns almost a physical impossibility and it is aid the new rule will cause many of the pr. s. pt members of the classes to drop out. Bloomer Costume Correct One. The girls admit that the bloomer cos-tumc cos-tumc is the correct one for physical culture cul-ture or gymnasium work, anil there would probably be no objection to It If the regular regu-lar physical culture classes came ai ih ( ,.s.- Ol the day s Work, when the girls had linn- to make the change of costume. cos-tume. Object to Special Work. Objection is also being made by some who w re lustrum ntul In having the Hoard of Education employ a supervisor of pli deal culture that a specialty f thu work is being made In the High school. 1 When tbe uestlon was first brought up I n was Willi th pin pose of giving the children In the ggsdes the benefit f the I training, it being argued that it was ihe onnger children who most needed It. I Then, too, the Higli school already had a competent director of physical culture, ami some of the patrons of the other schools are urging that less time be devoted de-voted to the uigb school girls and more time to the boys ami girls of the lower grades. |