The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-06
Part I...Article 2.
A Lesson, for women-To Gain Beau
 ty With Strength.
Muscle Building Will Bring Charms That the Toilet Table Can
 Never Furnish.

Muscle Building Will Bring Charms
 That the Toilet Table Can
 Never Furnish.
 Muscle building brings beauty to wo- man. This brief statement is sufficient, think, to make many women embark upon a physical development course. What will woman not do to become beau- tiful? They--some of them, at least powder and paint, and bleach their hair. and do all kinds of other foolish things in an attempt to improve their appear anceA If they but knew what a routine of daily, healthfui exercise would to for them they would soon forsake their toilet tables for the gymnasium. There is nothing in this world more lovely than a beautiful woman. There is nothing moro pleasing to the eye than a Drowned. fosy-cheeked. fuilchested. straight backed woman. Let her be all these and she is certainly queen.
 When see a poor pale, narrow-chest- ed, weak woman, with her waist drawn up So tightt hat it Is impossible for hei to take a deep, full breath--the kind that puts health and strength into the human body--my heart fairly bleeds for her.
 My late wife having at one time been an athlete, am in a position to know just what Is beneficial and what is not for the average woman.
 In the first place 8 woman should dress 90 that there will be plenty of room for the lungs to have full play. Ninety-nine per cent of them are dressed so that 1t Is impossible for them to take good, deep breath. They breathe up In their chests only. Consequently they are short winded.
 Then, again, the average woman seldom gives thought to the idea of daily ex- eFcislng. She seldom walks unless sne is compelled to. She shuts herself UT in 6 hot, stuffy room eats improperly and then wonders that she Is subject 10 so many complaints.
 Golf's Many Advantages.
 must say that in the past few years there has been big change in the mode of living adopted by women
 The game of golf has been responsiole for this to a large degree, and l cannot say too much for it as a means of exer- else for women. It provides just the klno of outdoor life that they need. It takes them out into the sun and makes them btown and healthy looking. It fills their lungs fuii of pure. fresh air, while the continual walking and swinging of the clubs supplies exercise for the entire body Women, play golf! - Of course. you can overdo it. Women differ so much in their. physical make- up that what is medicine for one is pol son for another. For this reason wo- man should carefully guard her strength. DO not. overtax yourself. Go about your sports and your walks with mod- eration. roo much exercise is. worse than not enough. You can easily ind out just what you are capable of en- during, and then shape your work and play to suit your strength.
 Do Not Be a Physical Freak.
 what I want most of all to impress upon women is not to try to make phy- eical freaks of themselves.
 A woman cannot stand too much train ing }in any one direction at the expense of the rest of her body as well as man can. Her physical makeup is not con strucfed for 1t. For this reason she should try to divide her exercises as evenly as possible.
 A woman who can row, ride a wheel and "a horse. swim. shoot play tennis and golf, all moderately well, and not try 60 oveftax her strength in any one branch.