The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-08-13
4 LADY PHYSICIAN RECOMMENDS
OFT DOOR EXERCISE FOR GTRI.S

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Parents, have you a pale, sickly, delicate
daughter? Don't you know if you keep
her confined in school and at her piano,
tax ing only fancy work and novel reading
as recreation, that if 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 the shape of
drudgery, but as recreation. Plan freq uent
country. excursions; have outdoor 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 life's purposes.
II is quite true that many diseases may
be cured by persistent exercise. After a
lecture given to the young ladies Of "a
seminary in Kansas, in which the adyan-
tages of outdoor exercise had been urged,
the principal, the wife of an Episcopal
clergyman, said: Il heartily endorse and
emphasize what Dir. S~tockham has been
telling you. Fourteen years ago | was
given up IT. die with tubercular consump-
ton. My doctor told me he could only
hope to p~alliate the symptoms, and that by
means he feared | would be unwilling to
adopt. | had three children dearer to me
than my life. How could | be taken from
them | told him for their sake ! would
do anything. He asked: 'wonld you be
willing to play bail?' This, indeed, was a
bitter pill; but if | would be with my babes
a few months longer, | certainly would do
it. My husband and began playing ball
in the back yard. screened from the neigh
bors by a high board fence and trees. |
could not bear the thought that | a min
listers wife, should be so ~undignified as to
play ball. Little by little | gained
strength, and in a few months without
drugs | was a well woman. Three years
afterwards | 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 a case as the above can be
restored to health, what degrees of
strength and vigor our young ladies might
obtain by resorting to the pleasures of out
door recreation. Lawn tennis in the coun-
try, where there is plenty of room, is among
the best of cut door pleasures. With
pleasant companions, a dress free from all
restrictions, this game is very exhilirating,
and calls into action every muscle and or
gan of the body.
Trieyc ling for those who have affections
p%recluding standing and walking, affords
superior exercise. It's therapeutic value
has been proven in many cures. \ young
lady Of Chicago who had long been an in
valid and pronounced by high authority
incurable, recovered her health in a few
months through riding the tricycle., using
no other means.
Another young lady who had the nse of
but one limb with which to propel the
wheel derived great benefit from the out
door exercise of her favorite pony. She
named her machine Victor = and seems
as proud of it as if it were 4 living crea-
ture. She had been confined to the house
for months, but could soon ride miles
upon her pony. The rapidity with which
she gained strength was a surprise to all
her friends.
More invalids wonld procure wheels if
they knew that by this means they could
drink of the elixir of life. The sick are
made well, the weak strong, and hose al
ready well become robust and enduring.
Tricycling must become a favorite exercise
for women. Compared with the physi-
clans bills 1t is inexpensive and gives
great Independence of locomotion.-Mrs.
Stoekham. IT, D.. in Minneapolis House
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