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Base-ball Cited as a "Nonsuch for Eyes and Arms" of Australian Ladies
Salience | Peripheral |
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Tags | FemalesFemales |
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City/State/Country: | Sydney, Australia |
Modern Address | |
Game | Base=-ballBase=-ball |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | Youth, AdultYouth, Adult |
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Text | Am Australian periodical saw limitations in a book on healthful activities for women and girls. The book is Calisthenic Exercises: Arranged for the Private Tuition of Ladies, is attributed to a Signor Voarino and was published in London in 1827. "Signor Voarino, as a foreigner, perhaps was not aware that we had diversions like these just mentioned, and many others of the same kind — such, for example (for our crtical knowledge is limited) as hunt the slipper, which gives dexterity of hand and ham; leap frog, which strengthens the back (only occasionally indulged in, we believe, by merry girls;) romps, which quicken all the faculties; tig, a rare game for universal corporeal agility; base-ball, a nonsuch for eyes and arms ! [probably a typo for a semicolon--jt] ladies' toilet, for vivacity and apprehension; spinning the plate, for neatness and rapidity; grass-hopping (alias shu-cock) for improving in muscularity and fearlessness--all these, and hundreds more, we have had for ages; s[o] that it looks ridiculous to bring out as a grand philosophical discovery, the art of instructing women how to have canes or sticks laid on their backs." |
Sources | The Australian (Sydney), May 14, 1828, page 4. This excerpt appears in a column called "British Sayings and Doings." (In February 2017 David Block notes that he has seen a copy of the original issue of the "London Literary Gazette" in which the review of Signor Voarino's book first appeared.) |
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Submitted by | John Thorn |
Submission Note | Email of 2/3/2017 |
Has Supplemental Text | Yes |
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