| Show WOMANS FITNESS an intelligent and enterprising young woman io in new york amy baker has bag organized a class clan for reading leading articles and editorials to by this means cultivating a taste for this the highest stanch ard of educational reading that is within the reach of all classes this is move in the right direction and one which may be followed to ad vantage every everywhere abere atwould it would doubtless k be uphill work at first especially especial pt among young women but th it should not dis urage the promoters an undertaking A few grattic of 09 the good seed sown by these means would surely take root and yield ab no distant day an abundant harvest some solon recently wrote an a article tiel against woman suffrage in which which evoi h said that those women who i devotee 1 their time to that much agitated quok tion lion were fit for nothing else chista a lame ar argument aument and one ne easily w re ejected there are hundreds of women who are zealous and enthusiastic workers in that cause that are admirable wives and mothers and active workers for the benefit of mankind he might J as tru ly have said tha taft lorence florence PE nightingale was a nurse for the sick anti anil wounded but fit for nothing else and yet before the crimean war was thought of she was widely known and honored for her human humanity ItYl and benevolence towards the poor for many miles around her home a and n d h hc domestic life was a beautiful ex example amp of filial tenderness and biety ther take r are a few a very few who vrho have devoted all taij ti time V and energies to the tt att aik oik of freeing their six sex from the ical thralldom under which they ibcal e so long been held but their berg are so small email and kheir heir influx be adnee so eo great it is ia to be regretted that s do not join their tanks ranks yet it in be supposed they ate are unfit for other positions or work another lother wiseacre says it is curiosity which h prompts women to attend public meetings lectures lecturer debating societies and so forth that to is as it should be tor for womans comans curiosity makes her 1 courageous 0 u bous and leads her to seek for knowledge dge even in the strongholds strong holds of the tho sterner rexall inquiries after knowledge are blessed with a certain amount of curiosity no matter to which sex set they may belong or they would not acquire ec quire then another bays says woman is n not ot physically adapted for public life or to occupy positions and fill offices that until antil within the lost last few years men have had the sole monopoly of that may have been true in the past but it la in not in the present and will be still less ISM so in the future if they continue owr present mode of athletic training women have discovered that with robust health gained by proper exercise and improved hygienic surroundings comes greater mental power and fitness for the emergencies of life and they we am training themselves accordingly aly only a very few years ago the practice of calisthenics by girls was forbidden by physician a backed by their parents FOXOn ts should one dare to use her dumb bells or trapeze she was called a torn tom boy or ty and considered too e but now that our academies and ehrola have adopted a system of culture for our girls the cry of womans comans mental and physical in opacity will soon cease to be heard in the land M A Y greenhalgh |
