Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1905 — The Society of the Turn Verein. [ARTICLE]

The Society of the Turn Verein.

There are three hundred separate turner societies In the United States, divided into twenty-nine districts, with a total membership of 38,000. Seven thousand active members, or young men. are taking regular gymnastics every week, and may be called the flower of the organization for drill and exhibition purposes. About the same number of “old gentlemen” are enrolled in the gymnastic squads. Four thousand young woman belong to classes in their societies. More than twenty thousand boys and girls are in the Turn Fereln gymnasium and schools. In the Middle West, the turner gymnasts are In great demand as teachers In the public school systems of physical education, and a normal school under the management of the Turner Bund is conducted In Milwaukee to help supply this demand for Instructors.—Ralph D. Paine, In Outing. When two women meet on the street and “talk awhile,” one of them says when they separate: “Well, you come up.” And the other one replies: “I will, thank you; you must come down.”