THE OREGON ! SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND SUNDAY MORNING.. . TOVT 'IU 1907
iKe Ouldooj
and Jostling around Uk a nob ef schoolboys cannot but
Inspire a normal man with the most Intense disgust. - i
AUl, mt mmm t""' wim1 vimyyj WVW4umva
Hookey, for example, ia lively came, which abounds in
tcrtmmarea. Likewise la laerosse; but neither calls for
....t. 4niAiiM mm football and haskethalL
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cfhe's a Happv
Free From Cat
like hitiUneSs"
By an "Outdoor" Man.
THING of beauty and a joy for-
i ever" the outdoor girl.
No more of the sallow, dys
peptic, nerve-racked creature, who was so re
pied that she was painfully dull. Her day
teems to have permanently passed.
iThe girl of today is the one who can
Wail a boat, lift a horse over a fence, swim,
tramp and hold up her end in open-air games.
She is radiant with health and spirits.
' $he is large hearted and broad minded. She
faakes herself beautiful by developing her
fjpdy, and "wears off the pettishness and nar
KPW mindedness that are the natural accom
paniments of unhealthy, restricted lives.
Nor is the outdoor girl less womanly than
.fit petted and pampered creatures of y ester
)iay. So long as she confines herself to recre
pthns that are fitted to her physical make-up
'Uwi are not unduly dangerous, she loses none
' fcjf the charm of femininity. She does lose her
J&4ike littleness, however.
r' But there is ' one great and omnipotent
tHanger confronting the outdoor girl -matri--
too.
t faefcrden ffrtjtfraid Molds. Ac Uem
'A town Which Has But
One Industry
V
IOLIN making constitute the sole Industry of the
town of Markneuklrchen, in Saxony, and of the
several villages surrounding it In all, about 111,000
people live by manufacturing the instruments.
Hard-working, Independent folk are these Saxons;
Che men alwaya seen In their coarse apron and heavy
v 'leather boots, and the women bustling to and fro, atrlv
' fng to combine the neat and cleanly execution of house--.
gtold duties with the eternal violin making.
...- Every homestead contains a pretty large family, and
In many cases one win find three generations living
mnder the same roof. They do not make cheap, low
." t claas instruments. In many homes peasant will show
irlsitora marvelous examples of their handiwork, uome
, pt them exquisitely inlaid and hoarded up in the family
. tO be handed down as heirlooms. Some collection of
these prized fiddles represent our or five generations of
patient workers. Often the master worker will produce
an instrument so cherished by himself that it will not
P sold at any price, but put aside among the heir
looms. .Primitive tools are "employed; the people take too
much pride In their work to adopt any form of ma
chinery. The work is split up aniung the members of a
family; tnus, one man will devote himself to making the
?egB another to fashioning necks, a third to shaping
he back and belly and a fourth to cutting the peculiar
"f" shaped sounding holes In the belly. Others again
glue up, polish, arnlsh and finish the Instruments, per-
forming every operation with scrupulous pride.
WIDE RANGE OF PRICES
' r01" tlme 1 tine as a batch of instruments ia fin
. sned, they are packed up and taken into town for sale.
It 1 a common ennnch tsliyhr t. uo .niio..... .Anina-
their way from outlying districts into Markneuklrchen
With canvas-covered packages on their backs that Often
tower high above their heads.
' .r f,elfih5.!r ome !"ge factories for
,re,ciiucii:i, reaay Duyers are al
way found for the handmade productions of the peas
vant. forAhese are suDerior to tht,
A might be supposed, prices vary enormously from
flv marks to 6u0, according to quality Zy amlS
faavy a reputation for turning out the very highest
grade of violin, and buyers rarely or never hageie with
auch superb workpeople. LU
Tner i"nother colony of violin makers In Mitten
, wald,' a corner ol the eastern Alps, between southern
,.'y Bavaria and northern Tyrol. The forests here are
wrlrh aubtl fraarrance from th
rough-hewn plank which are waiting for the deUcata
"""manipulation of the instrument makers. ueutaie
In the violin factories here the woods chiefly used
are pin and "ahorn." The method followed are those
' traditionally inherited from the old Italian masters
The strings for violin bows made at Mitten wald are
tf the Intestine of sheep. September is the great striae
eaaon, and there ia then in Italy and Bavaria an im
, mens demand for material yielded by young lambs alx or
' aeven month old.
It is curious that, although the MKtenwalders turn
out every year thousand of superb -violins, violas and
; oeIlos, they seem to care ' little for the music of these
Instruments, and ravel in the either, the national iMtru-
(nnt of Tyrol, to which they dance on moonlight nights
after t hoy have taken to market a big consignment of
efclr good, : , -v. . :; . ,
r xss i ! jm(jamm& my mzizz.
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ftbdmzteur mrt'ffi JPcxf jrjxf. JTeal
"She's all my fney painted her.
She's lovely, she's iivln." William Hh
ILL health ta back of molt of the world's evlla Like
wise, It la responsible for moat of the worlds suf
fering. Ill-balanced minds cauae criminality; Ill-formed
bodies cauae untold mlaery.
Not tha leaat of the outdoor girl's attractiveness,
therefore, la due to the consciousness that ahe herald
a happier era for the human race.
A a mother ahe will endow her offspring with the
cholceat of all heritage healthy bodlea and well-balanced
mlnda.
Indeed, tt la etrlctljr within the truth to hull the out
door girl aa one of the greateat guardians of the nation
more of a protection than our forte and our battleships.
Who can aay that in the next decade the airahlp will
not render 'the heaviest fortifications valueleaa; or that
the aubmarlne will not drive the Ironclad monatera from
the aeaa?
But every one reallaea that ao Ions; aa our aona are
strong and courageoua, no nation can outatrlp us in
peace or vanquish us in war, whatever form war may
take In the future.
- Then, too, the outdoor girl Is a fellow's chum. She
lan't a female "mollycoddle," or a bore or a bother.
A TRUE CHUM IN THE OPEN
6 he can do the things he does. She la a companion
1 in hla enjoyments, not a mere interested auditor of what
he haa enjoyed
Whether lt'a a ride, a aall or a mere tramp In the
woods, ahe has learned to hold up her end. And as for
endurance, she Is frequently the man's superior, unless
he happens to be a well-trained athlete.
Of late years the girls have appropriated most of the
men's sports not, always, tts.tnuai be confessed, with
happy results. ""! r" '''"
Women are differently constituted from men. Cer
tain exercises are not adapted to them, and they should
be quick to find these out if they wish to retain their
attractlveneaa.
Rowing and canoeing, perhaps, illustrate this. A
woman who rows makes a spectacle of berBelf. Besides,
to row properly one's back muscles ahould do moat of
the work; and, unlesa a girl haa been trained to ath
letics, the muaclea of her back are not likely to be de
veloped to the rowing atandard.
But watch a woman wield a paddle and see the dif
ference. Of all exercises canoeing is the most graceful.
(This applies only to the single paddle.) ' The pretty
sweep of the arms, without a suggestion of undue exer
tion, is in direct contrast with the awkwardness with
which a girl "doubles herself up" and then throws her
self backward, as she must do in rowing.
Another pretty exercise, in shallow water, is punting.
Every graceful line of a girl's figure ia accentuated aa
she poles along easily and lightly, not seeming to exert
herself in the least
Sailing, also is an ideal exercise, physically and men
tally, for a girl of pluck. Both canoeing and sailing
are among the diversions admirably suited to those not
robust enough for strenuous exercise. They may be
made as mild as desired. But for those fitted for more
vigorous outings, nothing excels horseback riding.
Nine doctora out of ten pronounce riding the best of
Girls OfoecZecf to osmo
EVER notice how many queer reasons for
strikes bob to the surface in the course of a
year?
And how queer some of the strikes
themselves are f ,
For instance, take the case of the twenty-five
girls employed in a pin factory at Waterbury, Conn.
They did not complain of their wages or hours.
Why, then, did they abandon their machines and
walk out in a body? v
Simply because their handsome young foreman
NOW. of course, ?h most plethorlo capitalist in the
country couldn't fall to sympathize with those
Waterbury pin-mill girl. There was their ad
mired foreman the handsomest foreman in the
shop dismissed. ,
Needless to say that the foreman was popular with
the girlsbis tail, athletic form, hla dark, flirtatious axe.
exercises for the all-around development of the body
and relaxation of the mind. Certainly nothing exoela U
ao far aa appearances go. And where women are con
cerned, they are very much like the little girl who waa
either "very, very good" or "horrid." . '
There is no medium In riding. Either a woman is a
picture of grace or a spectacle of awkwardness. A
girl may be perfectly certain that men see ber at her
beat or her worst on a horse.
77re..6'r?r ; ftcr Aufo.
And one thing is certain some women should keep
as far away as possible from the' regulation habits. A
girl with strong, angular features, a fine figure and a
good complexion may be charming in a derby; but her
sister with the "turn up" nose wants to let stiff, hats
severely alone.
Very frequently such girls are quite pretty in the
soft felt hats or the panamas that are now affected as
much by one eex aa the other. Crumpled Into all aorta
of ahapes, they frequently lend an air of brightness and
he was really such a good-looking fellow had
been discharged. , ,
Then there were the jail prisoners at Wash
ington, Ind., who went on a strike and refused to
break the daily quota of stone because they couldn't
get friec" chicken for Sunday dinner. And school
childre?i in Ohio who objected to being compeDed
to reci'e the Lord's Prayer in school.
Te8e were not the only unusual strike causes
during the last few months, by any means.
his lovely curling locks, his winning smile and pleasant
voice made work under his direction a pleasure. Like
a thunder clap in the shop came the announcement of .
his removal.
"I want him back!" declared one girl with a stamp
of her foot.
"We will have him back," asserted the others. "We '
t ,rur& u urn m uiscnargea. juw wiui w vow
Archery is a Pfeasatf ifearfi
animation to a face that would be "squelched" by
derby.
Very much the same principles apply to the manner
of riding. If a girl sits her horse nicely, and doesn't
"ride from her stirrups," ahe looks very well on a man's'
saddle. But comparatively few men are able to attain
an eary, graceful aeat on a park saddle, and still fewer
women. A woman la not physically adapted to getting a
good knee grip. So when ahe essays the "cross saddle"
she usually makea auch a spectacle as men would rather
not see.
For a girl who likes excitement there la nothing
finer than following the hounds cross country. She
may be certain that she makes an animated picture aa
ahe clears a fence, and that all tha men around her will
admire her nerve aa well as her looks.
The number of women who are equal to this feat Is,
however, comparatively limited. But for those of less
venturesome temperament, cross -country walks or hunt
ing trips will prove attractive and show them off almost
equally well.
Tills Is providing she doesn't rig herself up to look
too much like a man.
The one cardinal principle that women should re
member Is that when they get themselves up to look too
much like men they lose their attractiveness and become
unmitigated nuisances. For the moat mannlah looking
onea are usually the least able to take care of them
selves. In passing, it might be well to remark that the quicker
a girl learns to take care of herself In the country the
more her society will be eought.
SHOULDN'T BOTHER T.HE MEN
If aha goea gunning ahe ought to know how to Man
die her gun perfectly, ao that ahe won't alwaya be both
ering the men to do something that she ought to be
able to do herself.
If she goea riding, ahe ahould know how to adjust
her saddle and bridle before she a tarts, ao that ahe
won't be continually nagging the men of the party to
dismount and fix something for her.
Buch little attentions may be well enough in a city,
where a fallow has nothing particular to do and would
as soon be attentive as not, but when he is tuned up to
some outdoor enjoyment these demands become very gall
ing. '
In general, a girl is pretty safe In assuming that the
less of a nuisance she makea of heraelf the more men
will appreciate the charm of her society.
Thanks to the athletic training girls get in college,
however, the helplees, .finicky feminine such as rightly
deserves the title "eternal," Is rapidly becoming a thing
of the past. '
Another thing a girl should look out for Is to se
lect exercises that are naturally adapted to setting off
the gTace of her figure, and that do not make too strenu
ous demands upon her costume.
Nearly every diversion has Its appropriate costume.
But though the dress be varied to suit the exercises,
there, are certain limitations upon any style -of gown that
may be worn.
Tennis and golf are games that are as well adapted
to women as to men. Both are pretty, and neither
makes undue demanda upon ita appropriate coatume.
But auch gamea aa basketball, football and the like
are abominations from a spectacular viewpoint. Fortu
nately, they are seldom played In alght of men; a lot of
auppoaedly refined and cultured young women scuffling
they stamped their feet and chorused: "We won't work."
And they didn't. They walked out In a body. And
when the management of the works asked the reason
for the strike the girls were not at all backward in giv
ing enlightenment
No question of sentiment was found in the strike of
prisoners in the jail at Washington, Ind. They wanted
fried chicken for their Sunday dinner.
Now, of course, you couldn't blame a man for ask
ing for chicken ence In a while. You couldn't even
have the heart to cenaure jailbirds for demanding that
delicacy sometimes not even the alleged thieves, va
grant and humbugs In the jail at Washington who ex
perienced thrilling stomach throbs at the mere thought
of chicken.
The unfortunate gentlemen who were domiciled In a
"4 by " were not "gentlemen of leisure" perforce they
were , laborers. Their dally occupation was breaking
atone. But despite the sense of keen humiliation which
harrowed them they did not lose their appetite.
Indeed, so voracious, so obstreperous became their
appetites that they voiced a mighty howl for chfcken
fried chicken, done crisp, and browned to a toothsome
nicety.
The sheriff laughed at this demand.. He refuted it
with scorn. Then the prisoners struck.
Out in the yard were piles 6f stone wafting to be
broken, and when the sheriff showed the gentlemen In
stripes how enticing the atones looked, to his amasement
they refuaed to budge. They preferred their call, they
said. They atayed In their cell were; made to atay -in
their cells, and given bread and water.
all halr-pulllng matchea.
It la assumed, of ooursa, that both theee games are to
v- ni.vi4 anialv bv airla. Mixed oontesta of this kind
are, to say the least, unmentionable.'
So long aa ahe maintain a reasonable amount ef dig
nity and decorum, a flri (tlna tha reapeot of men by.
nutiH them on an ecual footing in gramas of skill
Take marksmanship, for example. There la no rea.
son why a woman should not be at proficient aa a
man. Bom of them have proved themselves magnlfloent
long-dUtaao shot with a rifle.
At auto driving they are oomlng to tha front ewoj
day. Strength ia not important In this. Nerve and aki
are what count.
Even at polo they are no mean antagonists. Recent
ty a team captained by Mrs. Thomas Illtchcock, Jr., de
feated a team of men at Meadow Brook, L. L
But When a girt so far forgets herself as to engage
ta unseemly struggles, either with her own or the opposite
ex,. she not only lose the respect of men, but their
admiration aa well.
Of course, there ia no sharp dividing Una Ife all a
matter or Viste. But if a girl wants to be aare ane win
avoid all gamea which require pulling, pushing or scuf
fling, either with men or la their presence. And if she
. doesn't wish to appear ungraceful aba will eaohew gamea
that require much running or throwing.
Just a few women can run and throw well. But what
they look like when they are doing It la another story.
Perhaps one of tha prettiest exercises for wonfWla
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ea rawe .ro mm fiisw watau sHM Mf VHIUUVI CtLva ft, :
healthful, but for some reason it seems to be decreasing
in popularity.
Another very pretty and picturesque sport la angling.
It make no undue demand on the weaker sex. And
for grace, the long and ploturesqu aweep of the arm
cannot be excelled, ,
It is not strange, therefore, that more and more
women are each year be oomlng devotee of old laaak
Walton. They are natural anglers, and learn fly cast
ing more quickly than men. Indeed, they are the most
dangerous enemies of the finny tribe.
When it comes to luring out a wise old trout or baas,
skill and alertness are much more effective than mere
strength two attribute In which women need never
fear matching themselves against men.
So we might go on Indefinitely. The number of .
things a true outdoor girl may do la almost unlimited.
Those suited to her add to her charm and prolong
her life. She is more of a chum and less of a bore than
the female "mollycoddle" of a generation ago;
She Is more Interesting and less irritable than the
woman whose life Is compressed into four walls.
She I strong, graceful and self-reliant, and the fear
of adipose tissue never cast It baleful shadow across
her mind.
In a word, fresh air and exercise correct her faults
and add to hor charms. She is her to stay, and the
world is belter off because of her.
tC5? Geetfurtirtf in Catjrefijm; &rt&A
On the Waterbury Poor Farm In Connecticut the pau
pera and prisonera aervlng time struck one morning, re
fusing to go into the gardens and work. They said that
they were not properly fed. They revealed an alarming
condition of affairs at the Institution in the charge that
no potatoes were served for breakfast! '
Who had ever heard of such an outrageous thing?
Superintendent James P. Mbrris, of the department of
charities, announced that the superintendent of the poor
nouse had run short of potatoes, but, he promised, such
a contingency should' not occur again. A large supply
of potatoes waa purchased, and then the Inmate went
oheerfully to work.
In East Liverpool, Ohio, are several wicked boy who
Lord' Prayer in school In the mornings, and the stun
lntendent suspended them.
He suspended them indefinitely, declaring the path
of knowledge closed until they bad changed their ways,
mended the torn patches in their behavior arid become
nice, pious and obedient little boys.
Then happened an unlooked-for thing: The girl's In
the high school served notice upon the superintendent,
according to the statement made, that if he did not
take the boys back they would go on a strike.
The declared that schools were places of learning
and not for repeating prayers. Not that they didn't
believe in praying. The boys might be suspended for
failure to study, but they should be made to pray at
home, before coming to achool. Bo the girls struck. -
Ninety-four boy. In the graduating classes of Publio
School No. 25, New York, didn't like the marking system
in examinations. So they decided to go on a strike, last
spring.
One morning, Instead of entering school and taking
up their studies, they formed a body and marched to
. Broadway, shouting, "Down with the 70 per cent, sys
tem." They called a meeting in a nearby park and appointed
a grlevanoe committee to call upon the principal, C. .
Roberts. John Schachter, a lad of 14, was appointed
chairman.
Then they marched back to the school. With head
high the grievance committee entered the principal's
room. The principal greeted the Insurgents courteously.
Schachter voiced the grievances of the strikers. He
eald that the requirements of an average of 70 In English
and mathematics were unjust.
The principal gravely listened and gravely replied.
He told them that those who had not passed the exam
ination would be given a chance to retrieve their de-
flclency later; that the standard of TO per cent would
have to be maintained in the school, and further that as k
the boys bad struck he had the privilege of declaring
a "lock out."
He asked the names of the ringleader of the strike.
The boys blushed, shuffled their legs and finally, con
fessing they were at fault, broke into sobs. The strike
waa over.
In a Pennsylvania town it was the teachers who
threatened to take similar methods. All the teachers
received a uniform salary of $00. When one was em
ployed and received 66 the others threatened to strike.
Because of a piece of beefsteak there was a strike
among the woodworkers and carpenter employed by a
contracting company of Chicago.
DIDN'T LIKE UNION BOARDING HOUSE
A woodworker boarded at a tmion boarding ho
kept by the shoo steward of the caroenter' union. On
morning he became displeased with hi steak and moved
hi Quarter. .
He waa oromotlr dlscharared bv tha fnrmn of the
Slant The owner waa appealed to and reinstated the
lacharged man. Thereupon the carpenter struck. To
appease them the proprietor took back the foreman
whom he had dismissed. Then the woodworker struck.
The proprietor threw up hi hands. When it cam to
strike abeut haeXsteak h waa powerl, be aaid.
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