Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' \ XGLJf?H educators nre cnrn/'{taX pnlgning wilS tills slogan: f I ^ "Athletics are unfitting ou? v/vWk I modern women for motherhood." American educators make answer thus: "Go to it, JyC girls; athletics will do you 7 good?not hurt you." The Victorian girl, according to the English authorities, was a much better mother than the modern feminine athlete, because she wisely conserved her store of vital and nervous energy for the crisis of motherhood Instead of Wasting it daily on the tennis court, golf course or hockey field. This surprising assertion seems to have made a serious impression upon England, wheae there is now a strong movement for milder school athletics for girls. Rut American physical culture experts, speaking for and to Anierlw.n girls, liave little sympathy with the Britishers. Most of them are inclined to say "Ahsolute tommyrot," and thus dismiss the subject. But when one discusses the subject he?or she?is' apt to talk very much like Dr. Dudley Sargent. He is physical director of Harvard. liut he is also head of the Sargent School o? Gymnastics in Cambridge. Mass.. which Indicate that he probably ' knows considerable about athletics and girls. fricidently, the photographs reproduced nerewlth?with the exception of that of Moiia Bjurstedt Mailory, who is put iu for good measure ?are of girls doing athletic stunts ut his school. Dr. Sargent says: "It is unfortunate that such statements have just enough truth in them so that they cannot be contradicted in their entirety. It is true, of course, that many women do have trouble at childbirth, hut it is unfair to say that it Is because of athletics. Athletic training is Ideal for women; It develops just the muscles of the abdomen and the lower part of the back that she Is compelled to use in this crisis. 'Overindulgence, overtraining?that Is another thing altogether. I do not heileve in .that. 1 have fought excesses all m.v life. I do not believe In the overtraining, for instance, that leaves a boat crew in entire collapse once the race is over. "I believe that these girls who specialize in tennis, who play all the time, all over the country, are the ohes who would he sure to have trouble in the crisis of motherhood. Xucli women are tight, tense, keyed up all the time and muscle bound. There is a vast difference, you know." I ?r. II. N. McOackeii, president of Vussur college. that the objection of tl4t I.nglish educators to athletics is bused upon an inferiority complex. Victorian ladies have lately had to endure more scornful pity their modern granddaughters. Their waists were pinched, they have been u id, their minds inactive, their clothes were clumsy and they were physically weak (witness the fainting habit) for lack of fresh air and exercise. "Ah." they reply at lu?t, "hut we were better mothers." "The argument advanced by the Garden Spot for Bears Kamchatka has more hears than all the rest of east Siberia. It probably has more bears tlinn auy other place lu the world. They are as plentiful here, I believe, as buffaloes once were on the western plains. The main reason wfiieh I found for this is the fact that bears do not eat during half the year. They are like grasshoppers or mosquitoes, or flies, and really live only in summer. They hibernate for Tulip Is Popular. The tulip tree, also called tulip poplar ami yellow poplar, has clear yellow fall foliage, hut as the leaves drop more quickly after turning than some of the other trees, it does not always make as much show in the landscape ns some of the other trees. It Is worthy of planting for its yellow color in autumn. It is one of our largest trees, oval-headed and of rapid growth. It is native from Pennsylvania and southern Ohio and Indiana southward. ?American Forestry Magazine. I???????????" 'iesy'o i $4* *rw/ ;?Wl^ J. ' ' :. ..' ?80W| ' ' . ^I """ V. "^" ''* ' So/a ^ English opponents to athletics for 1 girts," says Dr. MacCracken, "is al)out ! as logical as urging a young man not to deplete his mental energies by studying during the year, hut to keep them Intact for the great crisis of examinations." Dr. MacCracken is supported in his opinion by Dr. Elizabeth B. Thelherg, resident physician at Vassar for thirty-four years, and Miss Frances Ballentlne, bead of the department of physical education, who has directed , the athletics of the college for twenty-seven years. Nothing in their exper- < ience has ever led them fco believe that athletics are Injurious to women, but then the system at Vassar takes into account the fuct that some girls are weaker and should, therefore, be less strenuous than others. This fact, however, is borne In mind in most institutions providing physical training. "Vassar presents living proor 01 our system In the daughters and granddaughters of physically trained women," continues Dr. MncCracken. "If acquired traits wtwe hereditary, we might suppose that some of the girls playing on our present teams inherited their skill In basketball and hockey, along with their splendid physique, from their athletic mothers, while the sturdy babies of recent graduates would argue Irrefutably that the Increased range of athletics in the last twenty years or so continues beneficial. "The English girl is physically a harder type to deal with than the American. The popular idea of the English feminine type Is based on the drawings of Du Maurier; tall, slight and fair. In fact, the willowy Maudes of England are far outnumbered by short, heavy girls, who look almost squat to American eyes. They are especially numerous in the manufacturing towns. This type is apt to develop large, bunchy muscles, which become flabby and degenerate unless they are constantly exercised. This Is a bad thing, just as overdevelopment of any part of the body is bad." "The other day I saw fifty highschool girls playing "medicine ball," says I>r. It. S. Copeland. commissioner of health of New York C't.v. "It was a sight to draw tears from tire eyes of a grave digger, but one to put Joy in, the hearts of all lovers of health ami youthful vigor. "I was glad to see this group of wise young women. Their presence on the playground gave me confidence in their own good sense and the foreI sight of the school authorities. A I school without hours for recreation and without the provision of the means for attractive sports Is falling short of its duty to the student. It isn't enough to train the mind. The hand and eye must be taught by shopwnrk or needlework. The body must be developed by sturdy exercise and out-of-door activities. "Skating, skiing, snow-shoeing, crosscountry runs, hare and hounds, sliding down hill, baseball, football and open! air medicine hall are wonderful sports for the young. They are properly encouraged by school authorities. "All work and no play makes Jack <t dull hoy, and makes Jill a pale and bloodless miss. "1 hope every girl and boy in every high school will not consider it too undignified to run and jump, to push ! ami crowd, to laugh and yell, to have J i her or his full jwrt in some sort of | out-of-door physical contest or activity. The 'medicine ball' used It. this way is exactly what it is named. It is six months, and are active here only i during tho salmon season; and salmon 1 are so plentiful that bruin can live j through the entire Siberian year on tiie salmon he catches in summer, together with other sea food brought ashore in stranded seaweed, and berries found everywhere else. And it Is 1 because Kamchatka province has such ' I a long const and so many salmon j I streams. Nearly the whole east Si- i i hprlnn of flip Okhotsk sea. i'a clfic ocean, Itering sea and Arctic oceun is Included in this province, with Shedding His Horns I The Matter of the growth, development and shedding of the horns of I the American antelope has always heen i a question of decided interest. For a . long time It was stonily disputed that the animal shed its horns, and the sul?! ject constantly found Its way Into the j sporting journals and magazines. I had the honor of being in at one of these, and the question arose hy atten! tion being called to it in an article by >' ??I r"* ^ i gflo I? P? I \ . | \ J medicine?preventive, curutlve, stimulating and certuin." If Dr. Copland enjoyed the medicine hall, he should make a tour of the Scenic West and national parks next summer and see what c<?mfortulde and suitable clothing and hiking, mountain climbing and riding are doing for the American young women. Aik] if lie can get away right now he should make a circle tour of the Rocky Mountain, Yosemlte and Mount liaiuier National parks, where the winter .sports are uow In the doing?skiing, snowslmeing and tobogganing. Anyone u ho can believe that these young women are becoming physically unfitted tor motherhood Is hopeless. S*ome time ugo an article was printed In The New York Herald about the Improved physical condition of young women. It was a widespread search that led to every part of the country and especially to all tlie women's colleges. In sum. the facts collected showed that girls of today are bigger, stronger, healthier than ever before, and in passing it wafc also learned that this "larger" Feneration of women were nnt averse tft matrimony, that their added Inches and increased strenFth did not take from tlieni the instinct of mating and motherhood. Unless these signs fall, the generation to appear will have better chances for health and success in life than the two or three which immediately preceded it. In connection with the question of "Athletics for Women?" the corset controversy has again broken out. It naturally would, for the girls of today are leaving off corsets and the "perfect 3G" of yesterday Is today in ttie discard. Says I>r. I). M. Dunn, head of the women's department of the Life Extension Institute, in the Forecast : "These winds of contention have swept everyone Into three groups: Those who stand for the total abandonment of the corset; those who accept it unthinkingly as a mere adjunct to dress; those who, believing It can he reconciled with laws of health, take it seriously enough to select It v\ith the greatest care. "More than a year ago the International Conference of Women Physicians assumed the first position, adopting the principle of No Corsets for Women. "To the older generation tills question has almost a moral significance. They themselves were brought up In corsets almost from babyhood and never questioned either their place in the toilet or tiieir effect upon the health. Midway between these two extremes are they who do not condemn the corset wholesale nor accept it on fashion's terms, but believe it useful if conforming to health in make and fit." ) a tish supply as great as that of our American coast opposite, or greater.? Frederick McCormick iu the Los Angeles Times, Use for the Squeal. In a packing house hearing recently nu attorney who had cross-examined a member of the butchers' union on about every other subject, finally asked him what the packers did with the squeal. "They give It to the employees when they ask for a raise in wages," the man replied. a retired officer of the army. In a somewhat elaborate a-tlc'e, this writer strongly denied that the antelope ever shed its horns, and the editor of the aforesaid magazine invited me to tuke rhe matter up for him. My opinion was that his correspondent was wrong, as the shedding of tiie horns of this animal has now been known to science for many years, and has been carefully studied and described by a great many competent naturalists.?Dr. It W. Shufeldt, iu Americuu Forestry Magazine, _ O/to 1 AWERK.AH i LEflOWi: (Copy fui a iiitt unrut supplied oy the American Legion News Service.) EX-SERVICE MEN'S HOSPITAL [ i> Dr. Albert Wehenkel Heads Detroit F Institution?All Employees Have F Been in Service. T The only hospital In the country operated by ex-service men for the Konuflt nf nv.corv. \ ice men has been \ opened at Camp Jp' 1 Custer. Mich. It * >4 's ^,e novv Koose- 0r ?P* velt American Le- _ I* ; ;! gion hospital con- I 'v ' verted from n for fi x_?' . rn e r community x . ? house at Camp fl Custer and turned K | *[ piou by the stn\e. J ftffirijj^nnh The superintendent Is Dr. Albert M. Wehenkel, of Detroit. Mich . a ( Dedicated by Marshal Foeh, the hos- c'ui pltnl opened its doors to former service ^U1 men (Vf Michigan suffering from tuber- Sei culosls. Each doctor. nurse and em- a(J' pioyee at the institution has been in frt some branch of the government serv- a ice. Each patient Is given a separate eQ' room, tastefully decorated nnd supplied with runn'^g water. Tliey are I kept at tiie hospital until their case a* has been pronounced "arrested" and int then are placed Immediately in voca- fHs tional training to prevent a period of tet idleness. vei Doctor Wehenkel has been tuber- ''p; culosls expert for the Detroit board thi of health for seven years. He saw two ("l years of army medical service during fa' the war. po STEPS FROM NAVY TO STAGE ?' Charles Hanford, Shakespeareian Ac- sp< tor Who Served as Chief Yeoman,' w Returns to Footlights. wc fei To doff the robes of King Dear for Af the blue wool of the gob was no exer- tui tion for Charles pa 11. Hanford, one of bo America's foremost / f. : roi Shakes pearean * r'J actors. Often he MB had said, in hit wi /Ji'fig l?r role as Hamlet, m "Now might I do W u It put." He did It pat: he enlisted ?P fr< and became chief ... yeoman in the ^sasgalL ml Hun ford didn't g / consider this tragic. To give up a bright stage a career for life on the ocenu wave was he as he put it. menrly playing a role in be a bigger drama than Shakespeare ever mt thought of writing. Totlnv he is bark on the job, and 1 % C recently staged "The lerchnni of Venice" for the benefit of the (Jeorge Washington post of the American Legion? the first post organized. 1 KEEP AWAY FROM THE ORIENT Ex-Service Men Are Warned That Jobs Are Scarce and Only Natives Are Employed. w< Whipple S. Hall, who traveled 10, (>00 miles to represent (lie department ? of the Philippines at the national convolition of the American Legion. H warns till ex-service men to keep away p from the Orient unless they have J? enough money to bring them hack home again. ^ Discharged veterans of the Siberian front, many accompanied by Russian 1,0 wives as destitute sis their husbands, 'J*, worked their way to the islands as n< merchant sailors and are now in the (,? hands of the Legion and the auxiliary. Many of them, penniless, worked their way down through China in the belief ir.l that the Orient blossomed with good tin jobs. Virtually all manual labor and i'ci small clerical work is performed by t'1( natives. us Is Poor Man's Pride. So inanv men to whom the Knst side missionary had given money had | on expressed a preference for a certain j 1,?' lodging house that he wondered what tlp constituted its particular attraction. "iz "It makes us feel self-respecting," snl snifl the men, when questioned. ^?' So far as the mission worker could ,m see, it was the typical cheap lodging ',e liouse, whose inducements to self-respect were not discernilde to tlie or- ^ dinnry eye. So he interviewed the or manager. ,,0< "That's easy." replied the latter and 1 pointed to a sign above the desk: pe] "fientlemen Are Requested to Leave wl Their Valuables With the Clerk."? sp< American Legion Weekly. enl nm Last Man Killed in War. lift A sergeant of t lie Seventy-ninth am division who left Ids lines at 10:33 tal a. in. on November 11. JOIN, and was wll killed in attempting to capture a (ler- Co man machine gun, is cited at American rhf Legion headquarters as a claimant for J the honor of being the Inst man killed to in the vnr. At 11 o'clock sharp, nc- fro cording to the report, t-ie doughboy was picked up and c*Tied to the ] American lines. | J First to suggest Legion At n smoker civil in Uoiior of George ^ W. Goethals jiimI 'Vol. C. W. Wickersham, by the Alan Seogar post of the (0 Americaii Legion in .Mexico City, Mexico, Colonel Wickersliani declared Tj that ihe Legion was first suggested *j)( hy young Theodore Roosevelt, convnleseing from a wound in a French hospital, who said that when Ihe war ( ? was over and he was again well lie , >nc and others were going to form an or- ^ gnnizulioii of veterans that would b? . the greatest ol its kind. ^ja he KITCnm lyrlght. 1921, Western Newspaper Union he winds rage and howl my cabin i about, fltn ghoulish glee they clamor and shout. hey roar down the chimney and shake the walls, hey try to appall me with shrieking calls; ut serene, In warmth and peace 1 hurl eflance to their deafening whirl, i anchorage firm, my house and I ierce storms and threats forever defy, or iny house and I are types of thought o which earth's shocks became as nabght -Hattle d'Autretnont. MORE ABOUT CANDY MAKrNG Host candles art; made from fondant fudge mixture. Fudge, as It Is known, has more often ? chocolate or maple liavor. A delightful chunge Is made by adding candied cherries to a beautiful white fudge, flavoring with almond. Fudge Foundation.? Take two cupfuls of granulated sugar, one-third of upful of white corn sirup, one-half iful of milk and one tablespoonful of Iter. Boll to the soft-ball stage, t away to become slightly cool, then il flavor and any. desired nuts or dt. If chocolate fudge Is desired. eminro nr fmn nf f>hnpnl nto nr fin nal quuntlty of cocoa should be addwhen put on to cook. Fondant.?I'ut two cupfuls of granued sugar and one cupful of water o a saucepan, stir until the sugar Is isolved, then add one-eighth of a ispoonful of cream of tartar. Cook ry gently without stirring. As sugar :dns to form around the sides of * pan, wipe down with a brush jped In water, or with a small rag stened to a skewer. As soon as the up makes a soft ball In cofd water ur out carefully on a large but ed platter or marble slAb. Do not filn the dish, as one or two grains sugar will form n chain which will oil the whole mass. Cool until It n be dented with the finger, then >rk from the edge toward the cen until It can he kneaded like bread, ter it Is blended to a creamy mixre, put away, cohered with waxed per. until ready to make up Into nbons. It Is much better to make odant In small quantities than to ;k spoiling a large amount of maial. Be sure to make fondant on a Ight, clear day. If the fondant osts over when cooled, add a little iter nnd boll again. Peanut Candy.?Shell one pound of ?shly roasted peanuts and roll until e coarse crumbs. Boll for eight nutes, from the time the bubbles apar. two pounds of brown sngar and elve level tablefpoonfuls of butter. Ir In the nuts and pour at once Into greased pan. Mark off In squares fore It gets too hard. This Is the st of peanut candles. Other nuts ly bp used If desired. ? Ifter a day of Cloud and wind and rain lometlmes the setting: sun breaks out again. , And touching all the fields until they iaugh and sing, rfien like a ruby trova the horizon's ring Drops down Into the night. ?Longfellow. EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS Mnny fanners and small town mien "put down" sausage, pork cliops and other parts Pof the freshly butchered pig for winter use. Sausage prepared from the family's cherished recipe, made Into balls, rolled In flour and fried brown on both sides, then packed close In quart Jars and covered with t lard and sealed, will keep perfectThis sausage may be cooked with bbnge or served simply reheated and vered with gravy. The following lys will be only suggestive: When using the sausage set the Jar to a pan of hot water, then when r lard is melted the rakes may be moved without breaking. This Is r advantage or putting up the usage In quart Jars, as one will he ed in a few days or, If the family fond of sausage, at one meal. Boiled Dinner.?Cut a small Arm hhage head into eighths, four carts into slices; put all into a ketof boiling water with six medium;ed onions, place one-half n jar of usage cakes on top and boil briefly p half nn hour. Then add eight dium sized potatoes and salt and pper needed to season. Add water nil time to time as it Is needld. icre should he one cupful of broth less when the vegetables are >ked. Spanish Sausage.?Cut two green Pliers into narrow strips, brown th one small onion in one tableionful of butter. Add six sausage kes, one cupful of tomatoes, pepper ii salt to taste; simmer thirty tnln?s. Itemove the meat to a platter d thicken the tomatoes with one ilespoonful of flour, rubbed smooth th one-half cupful of cold water, ok for a few nifhutes. then pour over ? meat and serve. Sausage used In place of salt pork bake with beans makes a change >m the usual which Is well liked. Aojlu 7 yh From Common Derivative. Vhon she escapes from the vigilance a cliaperori it would hurdly occur a fair damsel flint her action and ? person eluded are of common orii. A cape Is a covering for one's adders, a protection; a chaperon s originally a kind of hood, also a iteetion, now a protector; slipping one's cape (ex cuppa) one makes 's escape. From cape also is deed "chapel." originally a shrine In ich vus preserved the cape of St rtlxi. gllllllMMI | Coats Worth Cor Party Frock illi Enthusiastic motorists scurry s? over the country In every direction ni und at all seasons of the year, V some of them following In the wake of ei ' snowplows or occasionally doing a little ai ! plowing on their own account. Cars bi j are provided with so many contrivances Ir I for comfort that few women outfit s themselves with especially designed si clothes for motoring, hut they have f< : learned to choose garments that are fi | passable, or even smart, in or out of tl the car. Everyone finds a suosranuai a coat of some sort a necessity. , As for coats, whether heavy or light o In weight, they inust be durable and a . ' ^ %M A WARM COATS FC *ell mude, simple In design and ample. < Among the new ones there are very | attractive capes and capecoats. which < are made of douhle-faeed cloth, plain j on one side and plaid on the other. : and they look as If a very good steam- I er rug had been sacrificed to their i making. Rut light-weight cloths are < woven in these patterns. Nearly all* of these coats are provided with a 1 scarf collar to match, to be brought up i about the neck when needed. This i scarf collar appears in the cout shown at'the right of the two pictu-ed here I I PRETTY PARI ! .iiiil Is one of the several Rood points I t i about It from the motorist's viewpoint, j s Its straight lines, nig sieeves cur in i one with coat, capacious pockets and p neat finish of stitching are others, t; Where warmth is the first consider- r ation, the handsome motor-coat shown e at the left of the picture is sure to v he successful. f< A troop of children's gay little party frocks come dancing along with the sheer cottons and light silks for spring?and no mother or aunt can look upon them with cold indifference. They are made of the Fashions Modified. Ii Moderation is the watchword in this fi season's apparel. Suit coats are t< neither long nor short, separate coats; tl neither extremely straight nor widely I." Ilaring. Tliut is no one type of gar- it ment dominates the field. Short coats a and long ones are seen, hut hy far the c greatest number follow neither extreme. Hairdressing. 1)1 There ace two extremes in hair- s| dressing at the moment. That is, the ( ot / iiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiirji'iitiiiiiiiiiiig isidering; gl s for Children If mie things they have been made of id In about the same lively colors, oile, organdie, figured net, embrold-; ed batiste, crepe de chine, taffeta id silk Jersey, tell the story of fabrics, the lovely woven silk Jersey be'? the newcomer among them. tralght-lTne dresses or those with full drts set onto straight bodies account ir the styles In frocks for children, roin four to twelve, and many of lose for girls up to seven years have ttached bloomers to match. Enthusiastic saleswomen present ne pert little frock after anotnfer rnong those made of organdie or voile i - '.i w> mmm )R MOTORING ! jr taffeta. A selection shown In the photograph above gives a clear Idea af prevalent styles. This, In blue organdie, has \& full bodice, plain and i <hort sleeved, with a cape collar. The. bouffant skirt Is gathered to It. at ' a low waistline, and has flowers made >f the organdie set about It. Wide tucks with a narrow ribbon at the head of each make a fine decorative feature on skirts and bodices of sheer materials. A voile frock in pink has three-Inch tucks In skirt and bodice, with ribbon a half-Inch wide at ry frock he Iien?l of each tuck, and a little ash of several strands of this rib>on. Sleeves are abbreviated, stopline short of the elbow. Nearly all affeta frocks are finished with narow ruffles or niching, with ploof dges. They are put on in fanciful ,ays and sometimes black thread used jr the plcot Is effective. \ conntohT iy vim** ntwam unioh air Is worn full and puffy about the uce or exceedingly flat and drawn up i> the crown of the head to reveal lie ears. The latter mode Is extreme* smart and likewise extremely trylg. Only a beautiful woman may uopi it Willi any ccriuiuly or SUCI'SS. Coffee for Silk. Perfectly clear coffee will renovate \ lack Silk nicely. Apply It to the right do of the silk, which should be Ironed a the wrong side when half dry.