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|Headline="a nonsuch for (Girls') eyes and arms" | |Headline="a nonsuch for (Girls') eyes and arms" | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Females | |Tags=Females | ||
|Country=England | |Country=England | ||
|Game=Base Ball, | |Coordinates=52.3555177, -1.1743197 | ||
|Game=Base Ball, | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | ||
|Age of Players=Juvenile | |Age of Players=Juvenile | ||
|Text=<p><span>From the London Literary Gazette of March 24, 1827, in a negative review of a </span><span>book on calisthenic exercises for ladies by one Signor Voarino: </span><br /><span>[noting that the author is a foreigner] "Perhaps he was not aware...that we had </span><span>diversions like these just mentioned, and many others of the same kind--such, </span><span>for example (for our critical knowledge is limited,) as hunt the slipper, which </span><span>gives dexterity of hand and ham; leap frog, which strengthens the back (only </span><span>occasionally indulged in, we believe, by merry girls;) romps, which quicken all </span><span>the faculties; tig, a rare game for universal corporeal agility; base-ball, a </span><span>nonsuch for eyes and arms; ladies' toilet, for vivacity and apprehension; </span><span>spinning the plate, for neatness and rapidity; grass-hopping (alias shu-cock,) </span><span>for improving the physical powers; puss in the corner, and snap-tongs, for </span><span>muscularity and fearlessness;--all these, and hundreds more, not so well known </span><span>nor so much practised in London, perhaps, as in the county, we have had for </span><span>ages..."</span></p> | |Text=<p><span>From the London Literary Gazette of March 24, 1827, in a negative review of a </span><span>book on calisthenic exercises for ladies by one Signor Voarino: </span><br /><span>[noting that the author is a foreigner] "Perhaps he was not aware...that we had </span><span>diversions like these just mentioned, and many others of the same kind--such, </span><span>for example (for our critical knowledge is limited,) as hunt the slipper, which </span><span>gives dexterity of hand and ham; leap frog, which strengthens the back (only </span><span>occasionally indulged in, we believe, by merry girls;) romps, which quicken all </span><span>the faculties; tig, a rare game for universal corporeal agility; base-ball, a </span><span>nonsuch for eyes and arms; ladies' toilet, for vivacity and apprehension; </span><span>spinning the plate, for neatness and rapidity; grass-hopping (alias shu-cock,) </span><span>for improving the physical powers; puss in the corner, and snap-tongs, for </span><span>muscularity and fearlessness;--all these, and hundreds more, not so well known </span><span>nor so much practised in London, perhaps, as in the county, we have had for </span><span>ages..."</span></p> | ||
|Sources=<p><em>London Literary Gazette, </em>March 24, 1827, per 19cbb post by Richard Hershberger, Oct. 26, 2010</p> | |Sources=<p><em>London Literary Gazette, </em>March 24, 1827, per 19cbb post by Richard Hershberger, Oct. 26, 2010</p> | ||
|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes, | |Submitted by=Bob Tholkes, | ||
|Submission Note=2/20/2015 | |Submission Note=2/20/2015 | ||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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Text | From the London Literary Gazette of March 24, 1827, in a negative review of a book on calisthenic exercises for ladies by one Signor Voarino: |
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