The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-02

OAe WHO TuHS ana jumps all the time
nor is an athlete a person who takes
long steps and displays in every mo-
ton the muscles and the cords of the
| limbs.
Far from it. for the athlete of the
present day, male or female is merely
one who is able to stand the trials and
vicissitudes of the day without firing
The girl who can get up in the morning,
at home or in the country, and who
can dress herself and go to a picnic
and come back home at night without
headache, is an athlete"
Her endurance and her stamina indi-
cate that she has cultivated her
muscles and that she can draw upon
them for a days work without taxing
her nerves.
The usual trouble is that a woman is
so weak in all her muscles and limbs
that the slightest overeXertion tires her
and irritates her, so that she comes
down with a nervous attack of some
kind, be it headache, neuralgia, hys-
tericS, or a backache. 1t is simply be-
cause she has not developed her
muscles, and is not equal to carrying
out her part of the days programme.
o
The girl who COLTS is usually a girl
who enjoys fine health. She is OUT in
the open air, and her digestion is good.
She can eat anything, as she, will
proudly tell you. Her legs are strong,
and her arms are likewise. AS for a
back and spine, she has forgotten that
she has either one.
A famous physician, on being asekd
to give the definition of perfect health,
said that he could only describe it as
that state of body in which one is per-
| fectly unaware of any particular part
of ones anatomy.
If you feel that you havesa head, and
realize that you are carrying a head
about upon your body, then it is pref
| ty good indication that you have a
headache, or that your head is troub-
! ling you. If your heart jumps you
know that there is indigestion or some
other form of trouble manifested in
| the heart action.
If. for any reason, there is any part
of the body which is present in your
mind and thoughts it is fair to say
according to the physician-that there
is one part of the body that is not at
ease. You should be entirely in repose
with yourself.
The practice of lifting the feet as
high as the head is one that is recon-
mended to girls who indulge in out
door exercises. 1t may not be ladylike,
/ but it is certainty strengthening, and
]
! Men have always been in the habit
of locating the feet on the highest con-
venient ledge, and the golf girl when
| she is alone is forming the habit also
! The exercise greatly strengthens the
back, and it will develop muscle in the
calf of the leg without making the leg
! lumpy.
Lumpy calves are the bane of the
! girl athlete. She does not want to run
or jump or swing golf club or handle
a tennis racket if the result will be
uneven muscles. The lump at the back
of the leg is never pretty, and it is
never necessary, for, with development
of the proper order, the leg will be en-
tirely symmetrical.
In the statues of the Greek athletes,
which were undoubtedly modelled from
life. there are no lumpy calves nor dis
torted arms, and in the photographs
of the up-to-date athletes there are
none. But it is only when one set of
muscles becomes developed to the ex-
clusion of the other that there are
humps and bumps and unevenness.
The girl athlete will want a lotion to
use when she is tired. The bath is a
necessity and she realizes it. Probably
in all the world Of people, men and wo-
men, there is not one class so thorough
ly clean as those who take physical ex-
ercise.
But water will not do all the work.
and the girl athlete will find that there
are pleasant lotions which are aromatic
and delicate to all the senses. One of
these is homemade vinegar which
the girl can get up herself by mixing
the following ingredients:
OF ripe red raSpberries take one
~ Dr.f n
a teacupful. OF pure strained honeA
let there be about half a teaspoonful.
Put all together in large bowl and
pour enough white vinegar over I'll to
cover. Let stand for two days. At the
end of that time strain and bottle A
teacup is safe measuring medium
for the woman who is compromising
lotion of any kind. This is a pleasan.
toilet water, and one that may strike
the fancy athletic girl.
All vinegar and toilet washes are like
perfumes, in that one has ones own
individual preferences and it is we'll in
making toilet water 20 experiment
with small quantity in order to see Il
it pleases the senses.
There are violet waters and scent
waters of all kinds easily within reach
and to be had for the mixing. for the
ingredients are inexpensive. But it is
best to always make up small portion
before going into the matter extensive
ly.
There is pleasant fruit vinegar
which can be used with strawberries
raspberries and blackberries Take an
equal quantity of berries and CT white
wine vinegar. 1t is difficult when enc
is solid and one of them a fluid 10
measure equal quantities, so it is wei
to go on the old-fashioned principle
that pound is a pint. The idea Is to
cover the berries well in order that all
their juice may be extracted BY the
acid of the vinegar. Let them stand
for four days and at the end OF that
time filter and put away in stone Jugs
for use.
A nice toilet water can be made of
lemon, oil of lavender and nil of berga-
mot in equal portions, say. one dracbm
of each. To this add ten drops of
oil of balm and three drops of oil
of rose. Mix these together with one