The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-09

to do more. am back by noon. and then
comes meal that Is filling, but not fatten-
Ing.
There are hot days in which 1 satisfy
my appetite with an egg chocolate, and
other days when take punch of eggs and
a very little milk, with chocolate fiavoring.
This is very satisfying, and you feel cooler
and better than though you had eaten a
beefsteak.
IN the afternoon there is always little
rest, and then comes my gymnasium work;
and this is the real exercise time Of the day.
| try to get out into the open, but failing
this put on suit and go into the attic.
Here l indulge in a nice little game
all by myself just now | am playing
football and it is astonishing what fun
you can get out of it all alone.
Even if | am away from home on a visit
| do not go without exercise. For this
purpose l always carry with me in my
trunk rubber ball. light and warranted
not to break the bric-a-brac, and with this
get my exercise. bound it on the floor
and against the wall. catching it and throw
ing it, again and again. until am all tired
out. This is good exercise, rain or shine,
and il is game OF which you do not seem
ever to get tired
But when am home go into the attic
and play football. ! practice all the plays
7 know, and then, when | am tired out,
l lay the ball down, place my head upon
it and doze off for few minutes. II is
a great way TO rest.
EToo many people who want to grow
thin begin by firing themselves out.
know a woman who wanted to reduce her
weight and she began by jumping.
AT the end Of three jumps she was red
in the face and at six jumps she was black
AT the end of nine jumps she began to
strange, and when che had jumped twelve
times they laid her away in bed for the
afternoon.
If that same woman had used discretion.
if she had tried TO throw ball against
the wall and to catch it; if she had even
kicked football, or tossed football in
the air and had caught it with her arms
as it came down, she would have done
great deal better and would not have been
half SO tired. But that il not the way with
some people They begin strenuously and
end In the dumps.
Football exercise makes the waist
great deal smaller. The teacher of a girls
college in the West has measured her pupils
and has found that az they exercise in the
open field they grow fuller in the bust
and smaller in the waist.
beauty were found in the football sphere,
but know that for one keep my own
shape that way.
THE football exercise does a great deal
besides reducing the weight. II induces
grace-and what woman is there who does
/ not want to be graceful?
as there any other way of becoming
slender and graceful? Oh, yes There are
other ways. But a girl who wants to be
miracle Of grace had better make up her
mind to do II by practising graceful move
ments. Let her remember that n small
waist Is obtainable only through rigorous
, excorise.
Kicking is very good for the figure.
almost as good as bicycling, and for that
reason the girl who can get hold Of a foot
ball and Of gymnasium suit ia advised
to go to work with both, for she will get
a nice waist sooner than she thinks.
The straight front comes with football
exercise But, really. unless You are
i slender, there is not much poetry in the
straight front"