Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-28
WOMAN AND HOME.
A LADY PHYSICIAN RECOMMENDS
OUT DOOR EXERCISE FOR GIRLS.

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Parents, have you pale, sickly, delicate
daughterY Don't you know If you keep
her confined in school and at her piano,
taking only fancy work and novel reading
as recreation, that IL her white feet do not
slip into the grave she is liable to become
an invalid for life, She needs exercise,
and that out doors; not in tho shape Of
drudgery, but as recreation. Plan frequent
country excursions have out door games in
which you Join, and, other things being
equal, roses will supplant the lilies, and the
child so dear to your heart will be fitted for
hfe's purposes
be cured by persistent exercise. After q
lecture given to the young ladies of a
seminary in Kansas, in which the advan-
tages of outdoor exercise has been urged,
the principal, the wife of an Episcopal
clergyman, said II heartily endorse and
emphasize what Dr. Stockham has been
telling you Fourteen years ago l was
given up to die with tubercular consump-
tion. My doctor told me he could only hope
to palliate the symptoms, and that by
means he feared l would be unwilling to
adopt l had three children dearer to me
than my life. How could l be taken
from them l told him for their
sake l would do anything. He asked;
would you be willing to play ballf
This, indeed, was bitter pill; but If
would be with my babes a few months
longer, / certainly would do it. My hus
band and began playing ball in the back
yard, screened from the neighbors by high
board fence and trees. l could not bear the
thought that ], a minister's wife, should be
SO undignitied as to play ball Little by
little gained strength, and in a few months
without drugs was a we'll woman Three
years afterward / asked my doctor If he
was sure had tubercles on my lungs He
said he had no doubt of it, as a careful
microscopical examination had proved the
diagnosis correct | was cured by the very
undignified exercise of ball playing"
If SO hopeless case as the above can be
restored to health, what de Tees of strength
and vigor our young ladies might obtain by
resorting to the pleasures of out door recre.
alton. Lawn tennis In the country, where
there is plenty of room, is among the best
of out door pleasures With pleasant com
paSions dress free from all restrictions
this game is very exhilirating, and calls
into action every muscle and organ of the
body.
Trcy cling for those who have affections
preclu ling standing and walking, affords
superior exercise Its therapeutic value
has been proven in many cures A young
lady Of Chicago who had long been an
invalid and pronounced by high authority
incurable, recovered her health in q few
months through riding the tricycle., using
no other means
Another young lady who had the use OF
but one limb with which to propel the vince
derived great benefit from the outdoor
exercise on her favorite pony. She named
her machine Victor" and seems a. proud
of it as if it were a living creature. She
had been confined to the house for months
but could soon ride miles upon her pony.
The rapdity with which she gained
strength was a surprise to all her frienda
More invalds would procure wheels il
they knew that by this means they could
drink of the elixir of life The sick arr
made well, the weak strong, and thos
already we'll become robust and enduring
Tricy cling must become favorite exercis
for women. Compared with the physician
bills it is inexpensive, and gives great indie
pendence of locomotion. Mrs Stockham
NJ. D., IN Minneapolis Housekeeper.