Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-02-16
Health Hints For Girls.

penditure of penny and without the
slightest inconvenience to herself or to
any of her friends. All that is neces-
sary is a moderate amount of simple
exercise each day. She doesn't require
dumb bells or Indian clubs, pulleys or
patent devices All she needs is
moderate amount Of patience and COM
mon sense and an earnest desire to
make herself as attractive in the eyes
of others as she can be.
There is no girl so charming as the
one whose every movement is graceful.
whose cheeks blossom with the blush
Of health. whose arms are well
rounded whose neck is we'll developed
and whose body is supple. Scrawny
neckS thin arms and frail bodies only
indicate a lack of proper exercise.
While all the world is searching for
the elixir of life and spending fortunes
on nostrumS. the fountain of youth, or
health and physical beauty is within
| the reach of rich and poor alike. and
costs no more than 1t costs to breathe
fresh air and follow few plain rules
that a child can commit to memory in
! n few minutes.
| There is no boon in life to be com
| pared with good health. The rules The
Press presents herewith will not only
bring health to those who have neg
| lactcd the most essential requirements
toward their wcll being but will benefit
these who consider themselves in
| valids.
1t is not the design to lay before
girls any task that will be difficult to
accomplish or which will entail any
more effort than they would he willing
| to undertake to add to their personal
| charms.
Rome wasn't built in 4 day or in ten
days. Neither can the errors Of thc
past and the neglect Of years be over
como in week or ten days; but the
basis for "A return to good health and
the foundation for physical beauty and
grace can he eSta blished in short
| time. After that patience and faith
full adherence to the exercises .uS-
gested Will do the rest.
There is young girl who lives up
town on the West side vino is as grace
full as a fawn. as pretty as picture.
as healthy as girl ever was, and who
enjoys every hour of her life, She
isn't a bunch of muscles and she isn't
! stout. Far from it. To the ordinary
observer she appears rather slender
Yet that girl has sinews like steel.
complexion that is charming ana
form that is almost perfect.
This particular young girl thinks it is
worth while to be pretty and graceful
She has a clear head and lots of en-
ergy. She wasn't particularly
strong child. but she was earnest and
| willing She wanted to be strong and
she wanted to enjoy good health. More
than all she wanted to be pretty and
graceful With these ideas she mapped
out her own plan for her physical
culture.
Knowing that her body was frail and
her limbs thin, she studied how she
could develop herself. She learned at
school some of the simple exercises
taught there, and these she added to
as she thought fit. She didn't over
task herself At first she exercised
only five minutes day. She would
extend her arms. stretching them as far
out as possible and then bring Them
around until her palms met in front of
her Then she would swing them
back When she thought she had
| gone through that exercise Long
I enough she would swing her arms un-
til her palms met over her head. Then
she would go through the ordinary
primary movements used in swinging
Indian clubs and with dumb bells.
only she didn't use either the clubs or
the bells. Whenever she felt tired she
would stop.
! At first five minutes of exercise
proved to be all that she could undergo
| without becoming weary or without
feeling some soreness in the arms and
chest. but gradually and almost i'm
perceptibly she heightened and ex-
tended the exercise. Her appetite in
| creased, her cheeks became rosy. she
grew lively and gay and as frolicsople
as kitten. Exercise became a pleas
ure to her, and soon she was able to
stoop and bend, kick and dance with
an ease and grace that was the marvel
, of all her girl friends.
That girl hasn't been i'll one day
since she took upon herself the task Of
her own physical culture. She never
has had the need of medicine. and she
is today about as good a specimen of
healthy young American miss as
you'll find in days walk. And she
doesn't use Indian clubs. dumb bells or
swings her arms, bends her body.
dances on one foot and then on the
other takes good long draughts of
pure air into her lungs, eats regularly
OF good wholesome food, and lives a
regular, sensible life
Its nonsense for girl to think that
because she is of the weaker and the
gcnti"r Sex she shouldn't devote time
and thought to her physical develop
m"nt. How are scraWny nccks, hin
arms and bony bodies to be rounded
and made symmetrical if not by physi-
cal culture? Bones are necessary to
have. We couldn't do without them,
nut they are most useful and most
admired when coated with healthy
flesh and sincWs and with clear
skin
This is the opinion Of the girl who
studied out her own method of physi-
ca! culture and who changed herself
from Trail child to strong, healthy
young girl and these are the rules she
has laid down for the guidance of
tnoSe VINO care to follow her example:
First Of all determine to stick to the
exercise until you are either satisfied
that you are not being benefited or that
you are being considerably benefited
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