Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-10-06
Feminine
Snapshots
What Are a WOInap's
Muscles For?

The other day a pretty girl was tell
ing of Il new admirer recently added
to her string. She liked him and said
HE isn't bit like that Nancy man
who is always taking medicine-the|
one we call 'Camphor Bottle you
know. This one Swims. cycles. rides
horseback. plays athletic games ana
does all the other things man ought
to do Things a man ought 10 do
There was this girl, Il young woman,
with fat already accommodating around
her body and unsightly Jumps of fat
gathering at the back OF her neck and
shoulders and pitching her head for
ward like stiff old woman'S. Ere
long this strangling fat will infiltrate
all the splendid muscles of her hand
some body so that she cannot turn her
neck or even Stoop over comfortably.
She takes no exercise at all and eats
three hearty meals day. She declares
even now that it hurts her heart To
walk much. She says mere step of
mile tires her and lanes her feet
now. when she ought any morning to
be able to start off with Il long. free
stride and cover ten miles without any
fatigue ut all. She cannot cycle, swim.
row. play golf. walk or do any of the
things Il WOman-no less than mum
ought to do if she would preserve i'll
good condition the splendid body which
is her instrument for use. If the girl
had even good. solid hOusewOrk TO do
il would be exercise in abundance. but
she is not obliged 10 do this, unfOrtu-
uately. Her whole body is as soft and
'squelchy" us plate of stewed pump
kin. There is something unpleasant in
the touch of it. still more unpleasant
is the thought that half The feminine
sex who dwell III towns and cities are
just like her. They merely sit around
and get fat. What are our muscles
supposed to be for? Is Il woman'S
body Il mere mass of useless pulp?
Lately | saw it mentioned in praise
of a certain millionaire woman that
there is not trace of SnobbishneSs
about her" There never is any snob-
bishness about any well bred person
or any alfectation OF tendency to pat
roniZc those who are poorer. Tia dis
SOSlllOA ptiOIleS 10 lIlc Ilill DEetl-
Men are such cOwardS,' said Il wOm-
an who shot and wounded Il big bur
glar from whom her husband and an
other man ran away and hid.
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Don't begin to die thirty years be
fore you have to 80. Look steadily for
ward 10 living 4 long time and to being
active, useful and helpful to the world
To- the last. Never pay any attention
10 your age; never celebrate your birth
days and forget that you have any.
Never grOan over or enlarge on your
physical ailments; never mention them
ut all except to your doctor, and then
| only when you are forced to do so.
Live them down. And begin now,
whether you are seventeen or seventy.
a pretty young woman moved into Il
fat in a new neighboiAood. The apart
ment house was tennnted by several
| of those posts to sOciety-idle women
who constitute themselves the inquisi-
tors and censors OF everybody around
them. The pretty young woman's hus-
band is on the staff of Il morning news
paper his work requiring him to be
at his Office nearly all night. The tab
DieS hcaTi him come home mornin :
after morning at = ana 4 O'Clock. What
could Il respectable man 90 that kept
him out al night? The tabbies held Il
council Of war. They must know
whom the landlord was harboring in
the midst OF them. Finally one rang
Mrs. Blanks bell and said, is MIR.
Blank your huSbandE' He is re
pied the pretty young woman. We'll.