The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-22

"OR her gifts of health and beauty
| nature has her price. One
| might speak Of them as one
gift, for without health there is
] no beauty The price nature ex-
acts for her gift Of health and beauty is
| an outdoor life. The woman who de-
prives herself of the pure ether dies by
inches First the clogged blood stops
circulating properly in her body. Then
she becomes subject 10 rheumatism and
| colds. Her muscles lose their tone:
they sink They presently bulge out
where they should stay in and hollow
in where they should stay plump.
| Next the woman's face shrivels, wrin-
kles and becomes flabby and leathery.
She takes to fannels and tea, perhaps
something stronger. When she has
reached the age of forty, her friends
say Jane Ann is getting DID, and she
begins to agree with them in her mind
and that is the end of her. The woman
may stay in this world thirty or even
forty years yet. but she is practically
dead, very dead.
| It is our artificial life that DESTROYS
woman's health and good looks. Life
within doors atrophies our sight and
hearing. blunts even the sense of smell
Fire and furnace heat are really no
heat at all for the human body. II
should be kept warm by the soul with
in. This beautiful soul is able to brave
all weathers. and the more il is permit
ted to breathe that air which contains
its life essence the more its transcend
ent beauty will be reflected in the body.
1t is the breath that makes us living
souls. That civilization which keeps US
away from the pure air stunts and
starves us out of the best part of our
lives.
On women especially the life within
walls. which is the life of the vault and
cellar, works disaster. They are the
mothers of the race. present and to be.
There never will be a perfect race till II
begins to be perfect physically. That
it never can become till its women
spend considerable proportion OF their
time outdoors. Here and there In his
tory a few famous women have shown
what is possible to all the sex by re-
tanning their youthful looks and ac-
tivity to old age. There is now living
in England a woman OF the nobility
who is ninety years old. yet it is said
nobody to look at her would guess her
to be more than thirty. II that were
not true, as III PROBABLY Is not, and II
this old grand dame looked fully fifty.
even that would be little less than a
miracle from our diseased. withered I'D
way of looking at life.
Among actresses. whose living de- |
ponds upon their keeping young and |
1.-the, there are at present several wo- |
men certainly past sixty who appear TO
be no more than thirty. Some of the
society women of England and Amer
lea seem perennially young. so that age.
feebleness and wrinkles pass them by. !
The queen of England herself is a con-
spicuous example. The fashionable So
ciety life of today is, moreover, the
most exhausting, aging and trying one
that woman can lead, still these Ia
dies who determine that they will do so
are able to keep young looking. How
do they do it?
If you investigate, you VIII find that |
every one of these perenniaIly youthful /
women spends a considerable part of I
her time outdoors and has done so for /
years. She has had no noble ambition 4
to transmit thereby physical perfection 4
to the human race; neither does she !
care greatly for the exaltation and in !
SEPARATION that acquaintance with ma /
ture alone can give. She only pursues 4
an active outdoor life because thereby |