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Show Athlrtiea For Women. In the memorial building of the Young Women a Christian association in Brooklyn Brook-lyn is a gymnasium which was opened last season. It has been constructed to meet the needs of young women who can give only tho evening hours to athletic ath-letic exercise and pay only a nominal pum. In addition to the gymnasium hall, with it3 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 gy mna-sium, mna-sium, can have a bath. The work ia the gym comprises three grades calis-thenip, calis-thenip, 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 Bociation are Mrs. Samuel B. Duryea, Mrs. Clark Burnham, Mrs. G. H. Prentiss Pren-tiss and Mrs. C. W. Ida One of the prettiest of gymnastivj 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. Tho music grows slower and slower until the line finally comes to a standstill, when the girls take their places for othor exercises. Brooklyn Eagla |