Cost Of A Fencing Outfit

A fencing outfit for women is rather elabórate and a trifie exponsive. There aro the foils, $4; tho mask $2.50; the jluff doeskin gloves, 3; the black suede shoes, $5, and any price one cares to expend for the dress itself. which may b9 of flannel, cloth or silk. Armed cap-a-pie, the modern girl ia ready to parry, thrust, feint, dodge, ake raps and give thern, drive her 'oe to cover, or gracefully succumb to ïer own dofea, until with a fierce stamp of the foot and a salute with ;h& foil the engagement is over. This s immensely g-ood discipline for women to learn to take dofeat good humoredly, and to engaite in any sort of contest without caring oither a jrudge r too evident a senso of triumph away. To lock arras with au adversary after a defeat in argument and to walk away in friendliness is training for which fenciiig lessons, or any other bout of skill, are of great usefulness.