Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-11-28
Mllady's
Mirror
Sports Help Good Looks.


The best exercises for women, says
a physical director In a girls college,
are those that are simply good fun
and have no such special object as the
winning of a match.
l would not for worlds forbid women
to play games like tennis. hockey and
golf, provided that they will not take
them seriously.
The two essentials of any form of
physical exercise are that 1t should
be enjoyable and that 1t should be
rhythmic. If you enjoy thoroughly,
your muscles may get fatigued, but
your nerve force will not get exhaust
ed, and If the exercise is rhythmic, IL
1t goes with a swing that brings every
muscle of the body into play, then the
fatigue will be that glorious, glowing
Iaxness of body.
rhythm, is this: The body must move
the limbs and o the limbs the body.
Watch a fine walker. a fine oarsman, a
fine jumper. 1t is always the body
that lifts and impels the limb. There.
indeed. you have the secret of grace
in every action of life-you must make
a gesture with your whole body, with
your whole will.
A great weakness of golf. as of most
other games played with a handle. is
that the clubs must be swung on the
right side of the body.
Instead of correcting the unwise pref
erence we give to the right hand. such
games accentuate it whereby one set
Of muscles land one part of the BRAIN
are developed at the expense of anoth-
er, while the UNMARRIED swing from
right to left puts the body out of poise.
Hockey. too. has this fault Though
its rhythm is more varied and continu-
ous) and has the additional n of a
low crouched attitude which cramps
the organs and impedes the breathing.
Tennis is some ways finer. This
more than any other ball game exer-
cises every part of the body harmoni-
ously. It's poses and gestures are many
and varied; the player gets a quick eye.
a lightning flick of the wrist. the in
Simultaneous speed of a cat on the
pounce, the power to hit with arm and
body curled or far extended. and, IL
he will and is wise, he may hold the
racket indifferently in his right hand
or his left.
Unfortunately. though the rhythm is
continuous. it is ierky, and. though the
gestures are varied. few of them are
-n1oble-a4essHi s nllagpezl rarely looks dig
nified-while, when the game is played
well, the nervous tension tfor women
Mt least Is apt to be too great.
Fencing is too fine an exercise to be
ignored. 1t gives sureness OF poise.
lightness of limb, grace of carriage and
n q~uickness of y and of wrist far
greater than tennis gives. 1t common
ly shares with golf the unwise pref
erence for the right hand Though some
are wise enough to fence with either
hand). and it tends to o~verdevelop the
muscles of the wrist and arm.
AS to horse riding, there is no sport
more ~exhilarating. There is nothing in
motion more splendid than the free
movement Of the brave creature under
you. his quick response to hand or foot,
the mingled sense of hazard and secu-
rity, the sense of being launched in air.
the flashing picture of the way and the
quick whistle of the wind.
But riding may be overdone, even by
strong women The woman who rides
to hounds is n fine picture on horse
back, but she is not always graceful on
foot.