Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-14
EXERCISE AID sAtRP.
Counsel for Women Young and Old
Regarding a Subject of Vital
Importance. ns b

10 get elgnL hours good sleep SnOulu
be the aim of every woman who wants
to keep her beauty. If the woman be
inclined to adipose tissue she should
limit her sleeping hours to seven, for
1t is the rest and sleep which makes
her fat. If, on the other hand, she be
very nervous, she can increase the
number of hours to nine, for there is.
something about the beauty sleep which
not, only knits up the raveled sleeve OF
care, but also mends the nerves and
restores the nerve fluid.
To go to bed hungry is never a good
thing for beauty's sake, states the
Brooklyn Eagle. The body feels I'M
easy during the night and the face
shows this uneasiness. One, wakens
with a furrow in ones forehead, and
often the victim of an empty stomach
will wake up lying fiat upon the face
and tossing restlessly.
Again, the one who wants to sleep
soundly must not sleep without a pill
low, for nothing so drives the blood to
the brain. In cases Of great nervous
ness the pillow should be extremely
high, and those who work with the
brain should also cultivate the habi OF
sleeping with the head very we'll ele-
waited.
The eight hours comfortable sleep
will be followed by a vigorous awaken
ing for the healthy. If one be in a poor
physical state one can take a few light
gymnastics, for, when all things are
considered, it is exercise that does the
body good; not idleness.
Of course there are people who should
not exercise at all, and unfortunately
these are the very ones who are most
apt to take up gymnasium work.
Elderly people who feel the need of
outdoor exercise, yet who cannot, for
some reason, take it, can have it sup
piled to them through light massage.
This will keep the muscles from getting
soft and will i%nvigorate the flesh. A
great many elderly people receive
strength through the finger tips and
many claim that a certain magnetic
stimulation is impaired in this a
ner.
In any case the elderly woman who
feels all tired out and whose strength is
slipping from her, would do well to try
massage at the hands of some healthy
young woman who thoroughly under
stands her business. Many a masseuss
works not wisely, but with entirely too
much vigor, leaving her patient all
worn out.
The, girl who gets up early can have
a routine of her own, and in arranging
it she car be guided not by the peculiari-
ties of anyone else but by her own &C.
centricities pure and simple. She must
realize that she is an independent crea-
ture, not like other girls at all, but just
like herself, and that she is a law-not
unto the woman next door-unto herself
alone.
AS soon as the girl who gets her beau
ty sleep early and who gets up at the
end of eight hours of repose fully re-
allies that she is a human being and
not an automaton she will begin to
improve in health and in looks.
For one thing she will not take the
cold plunge unless it agrees with her.
Perhaps she is of a build which cannot
take a hot bath in the morning, or any
bath at all. 1t may be that her pecul-
iarities of heart, lungs and vitality are
such that she must eat as soon as she
rises, and rest half an hour after eat
ing. There are people who must do
this.
But she need not think, If she IS one
of the persons who wakes up weak and
faint, that she need always be thus.
She should try to take plenty of exer-
else in the open air; and that heart of
yours will grow stronger. Here are a
few suggestions for the seeker after
health and beauty:
Don't sleep in a close room; don't try
to spend all your hours in the house;
don't think that dusty air full of mi
crobes is as good for your lungs as pure
air, and don't be afraid to get out and
get the sunshine. Form a little sun
shine society of your own, and be its
charter member, if there is never an
other n in your society.
Don't be afraid of OVERRIDING the ex-
ercise business. And remember that the
strongest in the world are those
who belong to the tribes and races whose
lives are spent breathing the outdoor
air Of the fields and the sweet perfume
of the gardens.
Roast Goose. io'