Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-25
Physical Culture.

We spoke last week about the climb
ing OF stairs, and now want to talk to
you little bit about some other sorts
Of daily and common exercise. There
is excellent exercise to be obtained
from sweeping a room, II II Is done prop.
erly and energetically. In the first
place, il Is far more necessary for your
good that the windows shall be wide
open when you sweep room even in
the middle Of the winter, than 1t is
necessary for the sake OF the dust not
getting into the carpets to wear them
out You will wear out great deal
iaster han the carpets IT you don't have
fresh air 10 breathe, especially when you
are raising all the microbes in the house
with your broom, and are setting them
ailoat In the air OF your room. Have
not only air, but a strong draught. 1t Is
an excellent plan for you TO cover the
hair, as the dust microbes you are driv-
ing from their resting places In and
about the room are not safe nor pleasant
companions TO have about YOU. "A
calico dress should always be slipped on
over a wooden dress In sweeping room,
as the dust will adhere to the wooden
very tenaciously. Now that you are
properly dressed, aud the windows are
open, move all your furniture about, as
much as possible, getting 1t out OF the
room, and then begin your sweeping.
What ! am now interested IN to see that
you take the proper position in this
work, and not specially that you get the
room clean. Stand as nearly upright as
you can. For this purpose, get broom
handle that is tall enough for YOU, and
then do not try to push the dirt ahead OF
you. That way Of doing will neither
get the room clean nor will il help your
body Don't bend over any more Than
you can possibly nelp and what bending
you have TO do, be sure 1t Is bending
from the waist, not from the shoulders.
Keep your shoulders up and your mouth
closed. That last is vitality important.
Never permit your mouth to open and
thus take these disease breeding germs
straight into the lungs. Breathe through
the nose, that was what II was made for.
and YOU can't better the work OF your
Creator. ACQUISITION yourself to using
the broom on both sides, or you will get
all the exercise on The one side only.
SO much for sweeping a room.
The sane directions here given can
be taken for all sorts OF domestic work.
In washing dishes. don't have your sink
too low, nor TO high. II man had TO
stand alta work table as many hours a
day as woman stands at sink, he
would see to II that his table was OF the
proper height. So also In moulding
bread. Moulding bread is a most ex.
cellent exercise. II develops the arms
and chest wonderfully. Only, don't
stoopl That is my one constant word
Of advice, don't stoop. Young women
Of thirty look like old women OF seven ty
wheu they sioop, and young woman vi
seventy loo k like younger women of
thirty when they stand upright and trim.
! am quite positive that real old age will
never touch the body OF the man or
woman who never permit himself or her.
self to stoop over. Throw back your
shoulders" should be printed OH every
wall in the house, and throw back your
shouldersl' should be shouted to every
living human being from the age OF two
years to one hundred years old. Walk.
ing is another exercise that Is thought
much OF. bu, while il Is good Tor legs
and lungs. especially IL taken in the
open air and now especially II YOU walk
briskley, yet there are other exercises
better adapted to help woman to keep
| strong than walking.