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Remarkable Progress Made by Women iu
All Lines of Outdoor Sports Since Grand
ma Just Sat Around and Knitted
TUB recent remarkable exhibitions
of swimming and dMng t young
women onteiUnU at the New
York GporUmen'a Show, held In Kedison
Square Garden, directs renewed attention
to the increasing efficiency of wtomen ath
letes in all branches ot out-door sports.
(Here was indeed a significant spectacle (
a score ot fine, modest, well-bred girls
carrying ofj swimming and dlrlng honors :
before mixed audiences ot tens of j thou
sands during a whole week from Ian. t
to Jan. t, and doing It with as much con
fidence snd nnembarrassment as though,
they were so many professionals ot the
sterner sex. 4
This is the second year of that spectacle
tn connection with the Sportsmen's Showl
It Is the most emphatlo possible Illustration
that young women ot to-day insist upon
placing themselres on a basis ot equality
with; young tnen la sports danundlng the
highest resources ot physical health and ,
strength, skill and courage.
Although amateur athletes, ' these girls
are so proficient In swimming and dlrlng,
and In all water sports, that they actually
rle in records with the beet professionals,
like Annette Kellermann, who offered .the
dlTlng trophy. It does not shock thera at
ell that their photographs and names are
frequently printed la the newspapers la
connection with their athletlo triumphs.
Such names as Eieie Hannemaa, winner
ot the world's woman's fancy dlrlng cham
pionship; Nellie OreenhalU who, though
barely orer sixteen years old, swims luu
yards la 1 minute BVs seconds; Miss M.
Simpson, Miss Edna Cole, Miss Millie '
Bartlldes, and, among scores ot others,
the Misses Josephine Bartlett, Lucy Free
man, Rita Greenfield, Mary Nertch, Martha
Ilogstedt and Elsie Sutton.
At thai" age grandmamma, tenderly
shielded from any contact with the outside
world, was doing her "tatting." Her ath
letlo pretentions were limited to a lady v
like game of croquet on the home lawn, v
well screened from the publio view.
It grandmamma Is amased at the change
that haa come over girls In the last forty
years, what amazes her most, probably, is
that the higher the social scale the more
addicted are Us girls to strenuous outdoor
eports.' Grandmamma might expect that
the working classes,'', wooes hard-working
sort of thing In the ease ot vhoydens ot
parents hare no time in which to "properly
bring them tip," but not In the cue ot the .
daughters of parents possessing wealth and
Inherited refinement. 1
Tet she hears of Miss Eleanor Sears, ot
Boston, outwalking, outriding and out
awlmmlng the men of her own social set
Grandmamma's athletlo granddaughter does
not hesitate to remind her that both Mrs.
John Jacob Astor and her slater, Miis Cath
erine Force, treasure their triumps on the
golf links and on the tennis court. Upon oc
casion she may produce the Social Register
and show grandmamma that' the first
families of the land are sprinkled with
athletlo daughters.
It is only since 1910 that great publio
pay exhibitions of women athletics
amateurs have come Into rogue ta this
country, with their farorite feats ot
swimming and diving forming the pro
grammes practically exrlusirely, as was
the case at the New York Sportsmen's
Show this , season and last. New York
girls who hare grown up la beach Til
lages and took to the water like duofcs
when mere children hare made such ex-
' blbltions famous' area in several Inland
cities. ,
As most persons living along the North
Atlantlo coast are aware. It Is the swim-
mlng girls more than the swimming men
' Who started and hare kept np the fad for
all-the-year-round surf bathing. On the
coldest day of December, Just past, with
the mercury edging down near to sero,
and with the ocean at Coney Island regis
tering a temperature of 42 degrees', more
than a score of girls belonging to Winter
sea bathing clubs disported themselres In
the Icy wares for a Quarter of an hour at
a time.
The growth ot athletics in colleges for
girls no longer causes surprise in either
ex. The polite, secluded, essentially
feminine young ladles seminary began to
be supplanted a generation ago by "co-'
education" and by colleges for women,
conducted on the same general lines as
those for men. And rery shortly the col
lege athletlo feature was established to
complete an Intellectual and physical sys
tem of education that should be a worthy
rival of that which had so long benefited
the opposite sex exclusively.
"Teams'' of rival women's colleges were
soon struggling tor new records. In 190T
MisB Laura Clement, Wellesley, class of
1907, made the 100-yard dash In IS 1-3 sec
onds, breaking the previous record" ot
14 2-5 seconds, held by Vassar.
The 1913 athletes of Barnard made,
these records:
Eight-pound shot put. Miss Eleanor Hab
sell. 28 feet I Inches.
High Jump, Miss Bailie Pero, 4 feet 4
inches. .
Discus throw, Hiss (Margery Hlllas, 6S
feet.
Baseball throw, Miss Jean Mohle, .50
feet
; Women tennis players are approaching
closer and closer the records of men play
era as witness the remarkable perform
ances of Mile. Suzanne' Leuzlln among the
"crack" women' servers.
Miss Helen Dal ton, prominent among the
young women amateur athletes ot New
York City, not only makes the 100-yard
dash In 12 soconds, but is a clever gym-.
nast, swimmer and basketball player. Miss
Julia Downey won that championship In
1913, being-'close-pressed by another sprint
lug marreli Miss Edna McBrlde.
Some of the younger women of the New
York-Newport social set are quite famous
athletes. To her proficiency at golf Miss
Marlon Hollins, for example, adds remark
able gift and Waring at that most hazard
ous of men's games, polo. She Is a mem
ber of the "Meadow Larks Four." who
startled the English' players last Summer,
by appearing on the field In competition
with a team ot men. Miss Holllns's com
panions in that game were Miss Emily
Randolph, Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock and the
letter's daughter, Miss Helen Hitchcock.
'And for Quite a while the "Meadow Larks"
held their own against their Bn op
ponents. Another of these daring women polo
players Is Mrs. Carey Rumsoy, who lacks
only a man's strength of arm to be tn the
front rank at the sport.
Bath Beach might be called a nursery
of girl swimmers and dlrere. Miss Els'e
Ilanneman. the world's champion woman
fancy diver who headed the list of entrants
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men's Show, was
brought up and still
Uvea there, a young
woman of education
and Independent for
tune. Bath Beach Is
also the home and
training Quarters of
Nellie Greenhall, the
marvellous sixteen-year-old
record
woman swimmer.
Her record now is
only eleven seconds
short of the best
man's record for 100
yards 644-5. sec
onds. She Is train
ing In the expecta
tion of some day
equalling the best
swimming sprint of
either man or wom
an. Miss Greenhall
has -a sister, Daisy,
who as a schoolgirl
ot fourteen is al
ready drawing near
to her as a swimmer and direr.
These grls, bred at the ocean beaches,
who swim all the year round, are so ac
customed to the tlghtfltting, ljne-plece
swimming suit that to appear In K as
swimming or dlrlng contestants before
audiences numbering thousands does not
embarrass them In the slightest degree.
The thought ot making new records ex
cludes every other. Neither are they apt
to become "stage-struck" and hanker for
professional honors. They are true "sports
men." Hlas Hanneman, for Instance, who
aa an amateur outdlves any professional In
the world, says she is about ready to quit
even the amateur field.
Both Miss Hanneman and Miss Green
hall, however, probably will be seen la
their aquatlo specialties at the Panama
Pacific Exposition In rivalry with native
Hawaiian girls. Probably most people will
be surprised to learn that these Bath
Beach girls yield nothing to the Pacific
Islanders In the way of swimming or div
ing, and the Hawallahs already know It.
As is natural, their proved prowess la
athletlo sports has caused women In vari
ous parts of this country to emulate their
listers In South Africa and the Balkans
by contributing to the fighting strength ot
their country. Several years ago the Colo
rado Legislature passed a new militia law
which admitted women to the Colorado
National Guard. .
Quite recently Mrs. J. Rungerford Mil
bank ' organized a regiment called the
"Columbians," to be a woman's comple
ment to the New York National Guard.
Her Idea was warmly applauded by the
National Federation of Women's Clubs.
Is all this as it should beT Are women
any the better or happier, or better pro
moters of the happiness of the world in
general, through becoming trained ath
letes T Does it make them more beautlfuf
or otherwise charming than were their
grandmothers ?
On these points the authorities agree
that physical exercise that Is natural and
exonerating Increases the beauty and
grace of the female form. Look at the
great masterpieces ot painting and sculp
ture. Is not Diana, the huntress, more
graceful than Venus, wno devoted herself
exclusively to love-making? Can you
hesitate for a moment in your choice be
tween the airy lightness and grace ot
Atalanta, champion girl sprinter of myth
ology, and the merely uxorious Juno?
Miss
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Why We Should Save Our Medicinal Trees
Irs. CVrey Itumity (Carol Harriman) in Action on the Polo Field,
VERY year our forests '
shrink . In area before
the Insistent ' demands
ot progress. This Is not duo
to the demands tor a greater acreage to
cultivate In all cases. It is partially the '
result of a need for building material,
and mostly caused by the desire for finan
cial gain. This destruction, includes the
trees used wholly or In part for medical
purposes.
There are about a dozen trees growing
in the United States which are entirely
or partly for medicine. On account ot
the enormous quantities required, H Is a
foregone conclusion that la the not far
distant future trees will have to be
planted to meet the demand that ta fast
growing, or else we shall suffer from the
leek ot necessary drura
The presence of hydrocyanic add In
the thin inner bark of the wild cherry,'
and its tonlo and sedative properties
make the tree vlul!e. it is gathered
In the Fall and a trebh supply ts required
each year, as it loses strength it kept too
long. It Is sold tor from 1 to cents
per pound.
"Witch hazel plays a prominent part in
the medicine chest of every household
to-day, and represents In Its manufacture
many thousands of dollar In Invested
.capital. The Indian knew-ot its healing
properties long before the white man
came.
line fr'ew England farmers find he
witch hazel crop one of much value, and
a regular source of Income. The brush
la taken to the local distillery, where the
essential properties are extracted. While
it le usually clasalfiedtas a shrub, it haa
beea known to grow to the height of
twenty-five feet. It also has the pecu
llnrlty of blooming rery late in the FalL
Tne bark, when gathered in this manner,
is aol4 from 1 to 4 cents a pdunji.
The bark of the slippery elm is htjrtl
prised for the relief of colds and to alia)
innammations. This tree grows to the
height of from 40 to 70 feel, with a trunk
2 i.i feet thick. The outer bark ta shaved
off, and the inner one removed and dried
CeoyrlghU 19JI. Ir the titer Company. Qreat Britain Rights Keiert L
under pressure In order to keep it flat
It brings from X to 10 cents per pound,
a high price, but not excessive when It
is recalled that the dried bark la remark
' able tor Us small proportion ot weight to
bulk.
The white pine, which plays such aa
Important part In building Industries, is
conspicuous among trees a possessing
medicinal propertiea.
These four are among the best known
aad most widely 'used ot nature's reme
dies growing wild in the woods. There
are others ot various kinds and degreea
of usefulness. The tamarack and the
aspen, both of them esteemed as tonic ;
the white willow, a tonic, a febrifuge
and sometimes used tor rheumatism; the
butternut, whose bark! serves as a tonlo
and a mild cathartlq; sweet birch, best
known as the principal ingredient In
birch beer; the white oak, whose astrin
gent bark is worth from 1 to 3 cents per
pound; and. perhaps as popular aa any
bark that grow, sassafras, worth fjroia
a to 1Q cents per pound.
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