The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-24
THE WISDOM OF THE
 GOSPEL OF GOOD HEALTH.

An inspiring present day saying is this: "A man Is a failure unless he Is bet ter man than his father was" Quito true. It Is equally true if we change the quota ton and say: "A woman is a failure tn- less she is physically a better woman than her mother was.''
 The silly old time notion that 1t was rather vulgar and like c female of the lower classes to be robust and have good health is now happily passed away. Tae girl with tho full, deep chest. the strong, Hat back and square shoulders, the arms that can show muscles, the legs and feet that can achieve long. swinging strides and endure ( walk of ten to twenty miles is now the girl who Is proudest of her. self and the one who is admired and en- vfed.
 Good health Is striven for almost edial- ly with wealth. and the road to it Is con ceded to be by way of plenty of air, exercise. sunlight and water. 8. M Jones, the Golden Rule mayor of To- ledo. has lately given expression to an invaluable idea in regard to the best method of getting physical exercise. Mayor Jones, who is fifty-seven years old and is proud of being able to stand upon his head. besides thanking God he has "a head to stand on." believes no physi- cal exercise is so good as that which is taken in the shape of some useful work. He has thought the matter over carefully, besides experimenting with his theories, and that is his conclusion.
 The most beautiful women the world has ever known and the most neatly perfect physically were those of the Greek race. Their splendid health and beauty were gained in active exercise outdoors. The athletic, open air games iy1 Nkyfff uvaA A0 ed also to the use of the women. Be- sides that, noble Greek ladies held 1t ever | honorable to spin and weave and dye the | exquisitely tinted cloths of those days. Thus they got plenty of exercise in "pro- | duotfve employment" Ladies now may not spin and weave, but there is an | abundance of productive employment | still. Besides the classic occupation of | housework, there are gardening, dairy | ing. beekeeping, farming in all it's phases and the rearing of improved live stock. Any of these occupations even>a million | aire lady might engage in with perfect propriety and to the great improvement of her health. She would know that while she grew strong and acquired q | fine. joyous physique she would also be 'ministering to human needs" as Mayor Jones calls it.
 The American nation will fail of its mis- sion unless 1t develops a race as beauti- ful and as nearly perfect physically as the ancient Greeks were and a race hay ing, besides, the large modern brain the average Creek of neither sex possessed. If we compare the head of an American woman today with that of the female Greek statue we shall find the head of our lady to be considerably larger pro- portionately than that of the exquisite marble. The female brain is undoubtedly growing larger. Let us have bodies to match.
 Such bodies cannot be grown without perfect health to begin. For this splen. did. royal health let us all strive. Pure air, deep breathing, floods of sunlight, cleanlinesssof the skin, proper dist-- these have been dinned into us till we know them better than some of us know the Ten Commandments Let us HOW lay hold of them.
 There is no other factor of good health not sufficiently taken account of by hygienic writers, and that is the in- nuence of the mind on the body. Any woman. young or old, can acquire the good health habit in time. but she must first fix her thought on it as the one goal above all to be attained before She can accomplish anything else worth while. Let a woman make up her mind she is go- ing to grow into perfect health. Then let her call to her help all the natural hygienic aids mentioned and utilize them. After that let her forget all about her bad health, especially her evil symptoms, and go on and work and be merry, maln- baining A cheerful mind always. Many a chronic ailment may thus in time be outgrown.
 MARY COULD LITTLE