The San Francisco call., 1904-10-09

This holds good in lying down as
we'll 1t Is such frequent thing TO go
into the house. curl UP on cozy couch
with a book and let one or both feet
hang over the edge. Sometimes it is
because we have a wholesome fear of
being caught with our boots on the
cover and then again it just happened
so. But don't let it occur frequently.
Instead Of spending money on doctor
bills. buy a new couch cover now and
then for it Will be infinitely cheaper in
the long run to bottle up your energy
than it will be to keep a spotless cover.
These little things are rot much in
themselves, but they frequently add
their mite at precisely the wrong mo-
ment and the result is disastrous. The
little things are what makes and keeps
good health. Just as soon as the body
is run down IL sends out a special in
vitation to Mr.. Disease to come avisit-
ing and you are in no condition to or
der him away. Keeping ones self in
good condition means escaping a host
of ailments, for pains and woes are
ever on the alert to find a weak spot
and as soon as they spy one they sally
forth, bag and baggage and camp there
just as long as they possibly can-ln
fact. until they are forcibly elected
What you eat has more or less 10 do
with your condition, though if you
have trained your stomach muscles
properly you can almost rival the In
vincible ostrich
Athletes who are in training have
certain diet and I will give it to you
in order that you may see how plainly
yet how we'll they live.
Breakfast-Fruit; oatmeal or cracked
wheat with a little milk, boiled or
poached eggs, baked potatoes, stale
bread or toast with butter.
Dinner-Roast or boiled meats. cab
bage, carrots. parsnips or other whole
some vegetables plainly cooked.
Supper-Cold meats, pOached eggs,
baked potatoes, cold stewed fruit and
stale bread.
You see that nothing fried or greasy
IS allowed. for this diet is TO promote
health. physical vigOr and force. and
only the simplest foods cooked in the
plainest way are permissible.
The exercises here portrayed are ex-
ceHent ones for home use. No. 1 clasps
the wand palms outward. bending the
left. Then straighten up with the wand
In the rear and swing wand over the
head in front of the body. Repeat this
over again and straighten up as in
figure 2.
The windmill exercise bends you for
ward and keeps the arms rigid and Op-
posite each other as in figure 3. At the
same time bend the left knee and touch
the floor between the heels. Then
swing lightly from side to side.
The rocker, figure 4, reduces a big
stomach and develops the abdominal
muscles and at the same time straight
ems the small OF the back and makes
one more fit.
There Is just one more exercise that
I especially want to mention and If
more women would devote a few min
utes a day 70 this one movement there
would be a scarcity Of pains and aches.
Lie down full length on the floor as in
figure 5. Roll the body along the floor
and back again and by this time you
will have discovered that the pressure
comes on the weak. inner organs. This
exercise by the way, has no muscular
effect, but it makes the digestive
organs strong and renders collie utterly
impossible.
1 have spoken Of health OF the body
and the carriage Of the body as the dis
tinct aims of physical culture. but 1t is
scarcely fair to stop there, for 1t really
is three-fold in it's mission. as ii gains
US what the old poet prayed fora
sound mind In a sound body"