The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-30
THE WASHIUB AIDS It Is an Invaluable Asset of the Man or Woman Who Would
 Be Healthy, WHAT WOMEN SAY OF IT They Get Plenty of Exercise About the House Doing the Rcgu-
 lnr Work.

| and healthy women. says tho Kansa City Star.
 Of course, Mrs, McMurray doesn' wish to Infer that women should throv away their bridge set and their books their fancy work and other violent ex erclses to recuperato neglected consti tutlons by plunglng Into soapsuds ant solled linen. 0 goodness, no Nothing of the sort. Neither Is Mrs. McMur ray trying to advance ideas of house hold economy that certainly would prove revolutionary to the extent of treason. Not for a moment. (And then, too, just imagine a gymnasium equipped with washtubsD Well, of all things.
 What Mrs. McMurray desires 10 con- vey Is tho fact that exercise such as that which K an incident of Monday in homes where clothes are washed in the old-fashiored way Is exactly suited 10 the strengthening of muscles that should be strengthened and the up- building and prqper placing of parts of tho human body that become sadly awry in the sendentary lives that many women lead But there are other ways to get the desired exercise, washtuhs being, for reasons which will need no clucldatIon here, far from popular In even tho humblest home.
 IL isn't necessary for woman tc be an athlete and develop muscles like Sandow in order to be healthy. Many couldn't do it, anyway: but it certainly would put brighter faces and more sprightly walkers Into Pettcoat lane II clear idea of physical culture, needed by all, might percoatc to the exclu- slye precincts Of Kansas City's grow ing colony of home owners; and no' only Kansas City, but all cities and all towns That's why Mrs. McMurray i' talking physical culture and trying tc get Kansas City women interested in it
 IL isn't intended that tho members of tho club to he organized are to bt put on high bars and a swing trapez' and he asked to exhibit themselves IT. track meet What Mrs. McMurray dc. sres ia to get women to see the value In exercises that suit their require ments breathing walking. holding themselves properly erect. light drills and dances. all the work done in |. I,, lsaF evtt grace and poise and lifts tho vitnl or- gans to the places they should occupy In normal healthy women. Doubtless some of the young women who hay, lived much in tho open, playing tennis and crouuet and basketball and eol will continue to have their outdoor sports every year but for the most part the members arc to be taught tho right way of living in an exclusive clut properly equipped with an Instructor where they may go In their own 'sets. ' groups from their own neighborhoods and receive just the sort of training they need 10 build I'D where they should be built up And there are pen' ty Mrs McMurray says, Experience has taught her that few women. prac. ticalv none. get the exercise they should have and consequently they grow old before they should and they are cross and cranky and buy muct patent medicine and load their bus. bands with reproaches and doctors bills.
 Probably 75 per cent of the wom- on who read statements of this kind will declare that by the time they have attended to the children and the homework and have tramped up and down stairs 35s times day, they have had all the exercise they need and arc ready for bed. That's where they're wrong. They may he fired and doubt. less they arc tired but about two days a week in the gymnasium with other womnn. with exercises that will bring into use muscles and organs that are sluggish. will give them a new view of life More than anything else, too, it will clear up minds made weary by the monotony of everyday duties Mental poise. cheerfulness of temper and bracing up of the heart and all uplifting of the entire spiritual na turo arc as essential to beauty In this humdrum world as anything that can he developed. Mrs, McMurray says so.
 one chief trouble with men and women is the lowering of the vital tt t, ,at pally by improper dressing and pinch ing but Mrs. McMurray doesn't advo- cate any outlandlsh ideas of dress re- form. She believes that the exercises prescribed will lift the heart and tn lungs to the positions given them orig inally She doesn't believe in tryinp to put the shoulders SO far back that they are behind the head, In raising the lungs it Isn't necessary to throw the shoulders back, TO bend the back and bulge the front of the body Is ic sacrifice the hack to a protuberancc | in front It is an injury to the lungs and especially to the stomach. Deep full eathlng-through the nose exercises the muscles around the was and the abdomen.
 "Too many women depend on ar artificial support for their back, Mrs McMurray said, land declare that the! cant get along without it. Tha proves that the muscles Ire not useC as they should be. This Artificial sup pott crowds everything out of plac, when improperly used, and from be ing an aid as they beheve, to sym metrI It becomes menace. Som women, most women Indeed, bellev' l they can fight off stoutness by irwin, to pinch 1t away. but they can't do 't The relief lies In proper eating. prope exercise properly developing tn muscles and tissues and organs tha 1 have been neglected. How man, ia. 1s t 1F nat