, 1905-09-27
Feminine
Snapshots
What Are a WOman's
Muscles For?

to her string. She liked him and said:
"He isn't a 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 and
does all the other things a man ought
to do" Things a man ought to do.
There was this girl, a young woman.
with fat already accommodating around
her body and unsightly Jumps of fat
gathering at the back of her neck and
shoulders II pitching her head for
ward like a stiff old woman's. Ere
long this strangling fat will infltrate
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 Il day. She declares
eve now that it hurts her heart to
walk much. She says a mere step of
a mile tires her and lanes her feet
now, when she ought any morning to
be able to start off with a long, free
stride and cover ten miles without any
fatigue at all. h cannot cycle, swim,
row, play golf, walk or do any of the
things a woman-no less than "A man
ought to do If she would preserve in
good condition the splendid body which
Is her instrument for use. If the girl
had eve good, solid housework to do
1t would be exercise In abundance, but
she is not obliged to do this, unfortu-
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'squelchy" as a 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 in towns and cities are
just like her. They merely sit around
II get fat. What are our muscles
supposed to be for? Is a woman's
body Il mere mass of useless pulp?
Lately l saw it mentioned in praise
Of a certain millionaire woman that
there Is mot Il trace Of snobbishness
about her." There never is any snob-
bishness about any well bred person
or any affectation or tendency to pat
ronize those who are poorer. That dis
position belongs to the half bred.
"Men are such cowards," said q wom-
an who shot and wounded a 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 go. Look steadily for
ward to living a long time and to being
active, useful and helpful to the world
to the last. Never pay n attention
to 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
at 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 a
fiat in a new neighborhood. The apart
ment house was tenanted by severa
of those pests to s~ociety-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 a morning news
paper, his work requiring him to be
at his office nearly all night. The tab
bies heard him come home morning
after morning at 3 and 4 O'Clock. What
could a respectable man 10 that kept
him out all 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, rs Mr..
Blank your husband" "He is" re-
piled the pretty young well,
we have noticed that he ONE in al
ways very late at night. Now, would
you mind telling me what your hus-
bands business is?' Hes a burglar
promptly answered Mrs. Blank and
the door.
The other day at a restaurant a young
man looked all about for his hat. He
hoped around ~nervously, tried on hat
after hat, called the waiter and said
somebody had taken his hat. The
waiter assisted in the search, but in
vain. Finally, directly before the
young mans eyes, where it had been
hanging on a peg all the while, he spied
q drab felt hat. His troubled brow
cleared; he sneaked up his hand softly
and grabbed the felt, slid it upon his
head Inc went his way quickly. The
man did not know his own hat when
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