South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 169, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 18 June 1921 — Page 3

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Leap-Frog Is Condemned as -Too Frightful

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m TIII'OSG ff gxrU in middy blmisrx and blnmner, on an athletic field. At a signal the-j form a circle ahout one of thtir numler, n!mt mi the Hat of ficr back, raise her lea hijh in the air avd calls, "Headj." A great ruth -ball, veirjh.ivg perhajn frrty pound, is tos.sed at her. She catche it, drxtrovubj, n-itfi the fat of her feet, yvuch cs a Sijnian "gglf n conannt. T s7;r tastes it" vp and up u-ith a combirnt inn of strength and skill most amazing. A noonday croud valkirg through the struts of Oshkosh. Along the thorough fare on which faces the high echonl a grrat motor truck of the lirrjf type lumbers along

great vehicle, neighing vci fral ton, has suddenly the itcps of the ?cho,d. Keen in their excitement

iconian. She paii ? herd to their cries. She keep right on and presently the big truck clambers vp the stone strps and only stojm v:htn its radiator has thrust itself between the jambs of the door. Then the girl chau'Jcur turn around, smile at the u i!rcscs. uares her hand, takes her foot off the brake and ollou t'ne great machine slou l, to back d,,v n the stejts. The clangorous voice of a fire alarm breaks the slumber of several hundred students of Stephen's College, .Io. In a moment, girl in nighties, Inokhig fur all the v orld like phantoyns in a haunted cloister, appear at vindou-f; and leap upnn fire esrapet. The fire engine clatters up. But the accustomed sient rian vice of the f re chief ?'., lacking. In its place rises the shrill note of feminine voices. TJic fre "laddies" are la-s'c. They are members cf the fire-fighting apparatus of the college owned, "manned" and controlled by the girls-. The fort going describes three of the stunts that college girls are doing, explaining, perhaps, the dreadful commotion raited over college girl fun. Xothing i.s too risky, nothing too epcctacu!rirt nothing too irdecoynus for them tr attempt. They are besides themselves in a ynad frenzy of frivolity. Is it good for their health? .Is it harmful? There is much to be found on both sties of the subject. The charge that it it actually dangerous and of grat e future consequence for girls to engage t" such high jink concerns itstlf principally with the snddeyi. change from serene living to ptrenncsity. Some experts prophe f a, weakened posterity, a race of effeminate men and masculine u omcn. Others ray that the ghl athlete makes the best mother, having less trouble than the old-fashioned home girl experienced during maternity. Only the future may tell.

By ETHEL A DECADE AGO, when men newspaper reporters were busy covering sutlraist and, Fometir.-es, sutTraette nn-otin., with the frelinc that this new form cf aXnment would pass away with what they firmly htlkved was the fad of woman's ricrhts, they listened with masculine courtesy but il!-conea!ed contempt, to the statements made by feminist speakers that, piven an equal chance, woman would outdo man in every phase of life. The prophecy is bein? fulfilled. The remarkable photographs on this pao illustrate what the forec-olnc statement means. The college jrirU haVe distanced the "rah-rah" boys, every day fretting bolder, stronger and moro venturesome. And wh?le reformers yowl r.lout diaphanous waists, fhort skirts and bare knees, the colle-e pirl is poin- on bavin? the time cf her youn? lif heels in the air, encatrir.r in the roughest sport and, ir.ridentnllv moralist.? take notice--not associütincr with the boys as often used to! An excellent example of the extremes to which th" .'.T'irls po in their pur.-Xt of the strenuous is furnished by the push-ball ju-plin- poinp on at Catl i'oho-d. Tarry t.;v;;--;.r.-the-IIud.--on, one t; fashionable pirl seminaries ot -New York state. The photographer w!;o tcok the picture was iriven a denvm -tration of how the pirls pet enjoyment an-! healthful exercise out of this fport throu-i the kindness of Mi-s Janet Murphy, one of the 5 tu hXs. Mics Murphy accommodated the photographer by b.'inp on her back, kicking up her ft et and catchmr: en them the jrrcat pushball which she proc ed-d to manipulate with tho dexteritv of a train vl vaudeville performer. When she arose she was jut as fresh, apparentlr. a ;he was when she be pan. Save for a bit of just on her back she seemed just about to bepin Miss Manche Hahr Recently Sent Cold Chills Along the Spines of Oshkosh Citizens by Driving a Motor Truck up the High School Steps.

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Suddenly a cry of hnrror arises. veered and at a sp-tdy clip is heading straight for the Ftarthd spectators! sec that the driver is a THURSTON the strenuous exercise. There are a number of students in the college just as apt at exercising with these push-balls as she. But such stunts, according to Miss Jane Cowdroy, principal of Courch End College, is ruinous of tho girl's future life and is tantamount e V to sowing the winds that reap the whirlwinds. She says: "Girls who do this may think they arc doinp themselves pood, but many of them will pay a heavy bill of costs later, and their spoiled tempers will not conduce to the happiness of persons

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Miss Janet Murphy .Demonstrating Push-ball Juggling, P ' a Uame Huinous of a Girl's Future Life'' the Critics Say. with whom they live. We will come nearer to an understanding of their position if we realize that the orpans of our bodies all inclose nervous connections, and disturbances, whether mechanical or inflammatory, in one orpan quickly set up secondary disturbances in others. "Man, in virtue cf his muscular and bony formation, is capable of withstanding- a pre at deal of physical stress without a disturbance of his orpanic relationship, but woman is not sd capable. In consequence, Ftrenuous exercises are apt to displace her organs and to set up what are known as reflex symptoms. "Many of these are referred to as heart trouble, and then it is stated that pirls have strainei that orpan, an entirely wronp impression' bein conveyed, since in the public view a man is just as likely to strain hi3 heart as is a woman. Indeed, the hearts of thess pirls are not strained. What has happened is that other of their orpans have been displaced or drapped about, and th balance of their visceral r.ervou3 systems have been upset. Their hearti merely share in the general catastrophe." However that may be, the women who competed recently in the athletic games at the Harvard Stadium, in the set of field and track games under the auspices of the New England Young Women's Christian Association, demonstrated NrwluiT 1'rature Snlr. 1921.

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ft .V? S ' 4 " . 1 - v i ' .... ; ' ''. . :. Iissouri Girls -Maintain a Fire Apparatus at what a wonderful advance the piris have made alont? athletic line3 in the last decade. They ran with the long, frcs stride of a man, and even in pruellin hurdle races evinced no tendency to "pull" their stride or to return to the mincing feminine rtep of centuries. Stephens uoliepe, .Missouri, tr.ves a striKmcr Txamnle of the tractieal trood that comes of hardening soft feminine muscles. ' iris whose arms and legs have been developed by the usual athletic sports have orpanize-d a fire department. They have a modern enpine and hook and ladder and when there is a call or a real fire they appear on the scene and po about their duties with tho nonchalance and the business-like manner of firemen. They raise great extension ladders apair.st houses as quickly as men and they have already mastered the knack of doing it without exerting a rupture strain. The fire chief i? elected from the student body and the pirls obey their chief's orders with the alacrity and willingness of trained fire fighters. Even though they never have any real flames to fipht, the practice is excellent, as it teaches them to be ready for any of the exigencies that life and motherhood always brinp forth. Leap-frog, an English importation for girls, is quite a popular sport. No set of American schoolboys ever evinced greater adaptation to this pame. Even in vaulting over the shoulders of companion.-; tho pirls are nimble. Their instructors say that thexcrcise is healthful ani stirs up the blood 10 carry fresh food to the brain so that the work cf the classroom is improved. Tennis and Motherhood But, pettinp rlpht down to brass tacks, the most powerful argument in favor of extreme exercise for women 15 the good eld pame that women have been playing for many years lawn tennis. When it comes to -trenuosity any football player will tell you that the gridiron is gentle compared to the cour:. In football the exercise is not half as rough as it looks. In tennis the sudden movements of jerky nature are so numerous that if any harm does come from any game through the very nature of that pame, tennis is the preate3: offender. But pirls have been at the pame for year. In a broilinp sun, against men opponents, usin overhand strokes compelling them to keep o!T the ground and to strain lo the uttermost, a generation of mothers hive been trained. And many cf them, even after children have arrived to bless their married life, continue at the good, old exercise that for real roughness on the constitution cannot be equalled or excelled. And no one yet has been definitely reported as having had trouble as the result of indulgence in this game. Opponents cf feminine participation in pames :::::

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mW . 71 N ervous ds. ecor . vVX Stephens College and Are Able Vamps long looked upon as decidedly and peculiarly masculine, point out that the ease with which these .rough sports are mastered encourapes pirls to perform stunts thac could not by any token be approved of along lines cither salutary or salubrious. Miss Blanche liahr of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, performed a trick recently that exemplifies what the "calamity howlers" have in mind. Miss Kahr, on a waper, drove a motor lorry up the steps of the Oshkosh high school, halting the machine when the radiator had pushed betvem th- jambs of the entrance, and then permitting it to roll down again with the sang froid of a circus performer taking the "dip of death." The Moral Aspect of It Moreover, these "wild doings" by the futura American motherhood have an affinity with th3 moral question, according to the critics. For instance, the abbreviated skirt is blamed on the athletic bloomer. The fact that the raising of the skirt was simultaneous with the general adoption of the practice of 'permitting girls to play basket ball and hockey in public, before mixed gatherings, proves this propinquity, the moralists assert. They po further and say that the close association between men and women brought about throuph the new common interest in the so-called strenuous pames. supplementing the effects of "open discussions" between men and women on del icate subjects and the daring fashion? are making the college girls materialists. Thischargo has also aroused a bit of warm controversy. Tennis Was a Nice Quiet, Ladylike Game Once, but Today, It Is Complained, Girls Play It Far Too Strenuously. T 7

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