New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-07

First-Are the several organs Of the body in a
healthy condition. and will any tendency they may
have to disease be aggravated by the exercise in
which they wish to indulge? Second-No form OF
exercise should be carried to excess
There is why a should not
play tennis or ball. ride walk. well as man,
without doing herself or her children injury. If
she does il under the advice OF her physician.
With tho experience OF quarter OF a century in
my profession added to extensive travel have
vet 10 a woman who has developed herself by
reasonable physical exercise the mother Of chill
dren with the puny sickness. the specialized.
knock-kneed physiques referred to by Dr.. Kenealy
In regard 10 the statement that the children Of
the working classes who are accustomed to muscu-
lar activity inferior IN brain and physique TO
those OF their neghbors OF leisure. must take
issue. During my long professional life Of expert
ence study and observation / have neither read of
any such fact nor have seen any evidence Of the
those Of theT leisure neighbors on the contrary.
they are less nervous stronger In body and their
equal mentally From their ranks have risen many
Of brightest men and women-statesmen. law
yers, hnanciers and scientists. There is one fact
that stands out in such bold relief that any student
OF the even II his studies are ever so super
hciaQ must recognize IL, and that is II e were not
Tor the marriage and intermarrage OF the sons and
daughters Of our leisure neghbors with those Of
the working classes. not only the upper classes Of
this country. but those Of other nations, would rap
idly become degenerates.'
Even as IL is now, are not such diseases as
ingy on the Increase? Is Il not the pure blood OF
WORKING
many diseases and helps 10 keep the stream Of
life among leisure neighbo-s' pure?
IT needs no philosopher 10 tell the world that the
life OF the average man or woman Of leisure living
in NewYork Is unnatural. and that sooner or later
nervous systems are taxed 70 the uttermost and
when they break down few have nerve force
There is scarcely man or woman among our
so-caled leisure neighbors' who has not some or
ganiC disease which has been caused either by dis
S 70 OF gbfX os nm bo Ts which 1p com an
81 1Ic odf n RIM In ne ma
ehinery to stand the rapid pace that NEST people
relaxation even II We must have enforced legal
holidays, more exercise TO develop their atrophied
muscles. and send the blood from their over
taxed brains their eXtrenites. 20 relieve their
engorged. torpid lvers and so lessen headaches
nerve force and tranquility. and thus lessen the
number OF persons who resort 20 stimulants and
Women especially need systematic exercise
Nature has given them highly sensitive bodies. II
their finely strung nervous systems are overtaxed
and they are not careful 10 replenish their nerve
force from the air they breathe. the food they eat
and the exercise they take. they soon become
nervous bankrupts.
and women that impress themselves upon their
children and the race. woman will waste more
vitality IN a days shopping. running up and down
stars cNmDlns INTO cabe car tWhlch mas steps
nigh enough 10 cause her lifelong injuries. than
6icyc for the same 1snetb of time I'VE W5oa
women learn that their lives happiness and saliva
k16winF someShinr about themseVe5 that phys
ical exercise is absolutely necessary 10 develop
ment can only come through hard study and cult
ure; that their children must not be affected by
their emotional natures. but by their reason: that
sickly nervous mothers cannot have healthy chill
dren, that dsspated Incorporate fathers cannot
have honest. moral intellectual sons then. and not
till then viii We advance in the upward progress
of the race
Or. Mary Putnam Jacob another prominent
New-YOrk physician also declares emphatically for
exercise in abundance for women. She advocates
running as an especially helpful exercise and says
that II women going into the country for the sum
mer would walk and and and play tennis
instead OF sitting the hotel piazza crocheting
and gossipng and talking over what they have had
10 eat and what they going to have. they
would come back 10 the city in the fall infinitely
benefited by their summers outing. She adds that
what IS so poetical in poetry and the old novels
about the Wilderness Of the skin means some hing
not poetical II is due she says. 10 the langour
OF the muscular tissues throughout the body and
the slOwness and anguOr that were so often char
acterized a charming feminine attribute are as
ISOLATED with indigestion and are therefore thor
ouRhly unrOmantic.
Miss Marguerite E. Lindley is also an earnest
apostle OF health culture advocating an abundance
Of exercise in order 10 produce firm pliabe. well
educated muscles.