The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-22
LES FOR GIRLS.
Are Very Good in
r Way, But Caution
Is Necessary.
4 BETTER THAN BEAUTY.
onsolation When Muscles are
over Deyeloped--Milton's
Wife.

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girls to undertake as riding or skating
or rowing are, but which a also be
as open to accident as any of these
three. That is no reason for not at
tempting them, for every pleasure in
life is Swallowed by a danger, but
every girl reader would do well to
make a little promise to herself
to undertake anything but light
gymnastics until she knows that her
muscles are evenly and well develop
ed for her age and her weight, and
then only under the direction of an
experienced person. The travelling
rings and feats on the horizontal bar
and many similar feats should be put
on this list in every girls mental
notebook. Jumping is not
particularly desirable for girls.
although for a strong girl
who has been well trained in athletics
the risk is not great. Except in the
gymnasium, her dress prevents a girl
from jumping well, and under any
circumstances it is perhaps the least
desirable form of exercise for her.
This is, of course, jumping from a
height, or a running long jump IN
which it is necessary to alight proper
ly, or the whole system receives a
( shock. Even in dropping from the
rings, or the horizontal bar, if you
alight on your toes (that is, with the
heels not touchingl, with your knees
bent. YOU will quickly see what a
great advantage it gives you to know
the right way of doing such things,
because you will not feel the least jar
as you rise easily to your full height
after it.
When a girl has had sufficient prac-
tice in light gymnastics, she will find
it of great use to begin work on the
horizontal ladders, hanging by her
hands from the rungs of the ladder,
above a mattress, and carrying herself
backward or forward in different ways
across the room,
To make an angel (as it is called) is
not at all difficult, but it should be
put in the girls reserve list of feats.
only to be performed under the care
of some one experienced i'll gymnasium
work, and so should turning somer-
saults between the rings. Climbing.
however, is quite safe, and of great
advantage, and hanging from a low
bar with the head down is also a safe
and good exercise, particularly If it is
done by putting one knee-let US say
the left - the bar, and passing
the other over the left foot and then
under the bar. ltsis almost impossi-
Bile to fall from this position, and you
can easily raise your body to take
hold of the bar again with your hands
when you want to.
IT, f,a o.o1fxr naoocccrxy RI aar1ffnn
girls against the sort of work that
over-develops muscles and makes
them hard and not elastic, but unless
a girl needs an unusual amount OF ex-
ercise to keep her in good health, she
does not want to work her muscles
until they are prominent and ugly.
Health is better than beauty, now
ever. and if that sad result should at
tend some girls exercise she cal easily
console herself with that thought,
and in remembering how few
are her headaches and her colds.
and how little time she has to
waste on such discomforts. The girl
of today can rejoice that those funny,
lackadaisicaI Clarissas and Belindas
and Arabellas, whose delicacy and
helplessness were held up for the ad-
miration of our OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
have safely passed over the border
into the land of the ridiculous. We
can laugh at them now as we wear
our sensible shoes, aud try our best
to be what they would have called
rudely healthy, with their strange
idea of what was beautiful and proper.
MIS- arthur Brooks IN HG2per's
Young People.
Milton and His Wife.
Tt was in June, 1913, that there wa,
that extraordinary futter of silks and
lnuslins in the house which was
caused by the return of Milton from
a brief holiday in the country, bring
ing with him his young bride, Mary
Powell. and a bevv of her sisters anc
bridesmaids. The two boy nephews
who had known nothing of theil
uncle's in his holiday jaunt,
were greatly surprised by the Incl
dent and by the ''feasting held fol
some DAYS in celebration of the nup
tials.n and the surprise was more gen
eral when it came to be known thai
the bride was OF a strongly Royals
family. living close to the King
HEADQUARTERS at Oxford, and tina
Milton had actually fetched her from
that focus of royalism, says Goot
Words.
But the wonder was not yet over
The bevy of sisters and bridesmaids
having departed, the young wife hat
not been much more than a montl
without them when, accustomed a
she had BEEN to a green house ant
much jollity," she found tn,
..nhiIosophical lifen she was leadini
with her husband in the Aldersgat
street house very dull and irksome
Would he give her leave to have 6
few more weeks with her family in
their Oxfordshire nome of Forest Hill
before settling down definitely to thu
duties of her new home in London
TO this request, sent from the family
+. but contrived apparently by herself
Milton yielded-and with very un
fortunate result. When the time TO
her promised return came, not onl,
did she not return. but the correspon
dence on the subject ended with a
Insulting message from Forest Hill T
the effect that she would never re
turn. 3.-