The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-02-10
TEACH GIRLS HOW TO RUN.
A Sure Way to Disarm Masculine RIdiculs
of Present inability.

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OF Present Inability.
Women who have grown tired OF
the masculine ridicuIe OF their run
ming. when there il occasion for them
10 run, cannot do better says Har-
per's Bazaar, than 10 have their
daughters take "A course OF exercise
that shall spare them such mortihca-
tions. since at One time or another TO-
life IL may be ONE necessary for all
people To run. To this end exercise
In a gymnasium Is most desirable, be-
ginning with gentle calisthenics, and
going on W TN bars and trapeze and
ring, and ladder, avoiding the heavier
work, the abrupt pulls upon the
strength, or any too violent force OF
movement, thus increasing gently
the breathing and the sudorific power,
quickeniDg and cleaning the blood
and eliminating a world Of refuse
tn ouQh the skin. In the gymnasium
the girl Will be taught To run so that
her movement in her light skirts be-
comes a far more graceful thing than
the running OF her brother when he
seems all legs. But her exercise need
not stop at the gymnasium, while
there is riding and rowing and swim
ming outdoors and fencing and dane
ing within. Dancing is always a
healthy exercise under favorable CON
iltiOns-that Is, In pure air and with
not too late hours. And few things
develop the shape better or produce
more grace OF movement than fenc-
ing does, calling upOl all the mus
cleS and cultlyating readiness, quick
ness, caution, and resolution at the
same time. Swimming, although IL
leaves no single muscle Lntried, is a
less desirable form OF exercise, be-
cause the temptation there Is to over
do: still The great swimmers declare
that no other form Of exercise makes
the body feel afterward so much as il
IT, had wings and could soar in outer
ether. But it should be taken gently,
and IL the swim mer is at all chilled.
it should be left Immediately and
brisk friction with brush ana towel
should take its place.
After any OF this order OF exercise
when the tirst glow has passed, there
should be a gu OK bath and a cold
water douche, which prevents taking
cold. Other forms OF healthy exer-
tiOn are still TO be found In walking
and In domestic work. But 10 should
be understood, by the way, by those
who desire TO rid themselves OF
superfluous flesh, that walking is of
little use Tor that purpose unless 1t
produces perspiration; and walking,
when carried TO such "A point, is not
always best There are more etfec-
tive ways, through gymnast C eXer-
els, to promote perspiration and
thus reduce flesh. And, after all,
there is no healthier or better way to
do this in general than by what is
called hOusework, whenever there is
the requisite strength for its steady
pull, and it is marvellous here how
the strength grows by what it feeds
on. Many a girl who was too deli
cate or too listless to help her mother
in anything but %trifes, marrying and
doing her W work develops a full
chest, a strong back, stout limbs and
good lungs, with the broom and the
buster, the fiat iron and the scrub
bing board, and appetite and CHEEKY
spirits and good nature have dcvel-
oped at the same time with the swift
and happy coursing OF the blood in
the veins by reaSon of the work.