Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30

branches of the Government would seen to
indicate that the North American physical
standard as a people is holding up better than
Great Eritain's.
DUT more to sportmania than to better food
- and better housing perhaps, does thg
United States owe it's excellent physical stand-
ard Americans might with justice be called
the "playboys" of the world. And this in
cludes the feminine portion of the population
as well as the masculine portion. Training
camps also play their part with the male youth
CT the country.
Thousands of golf courses now dot the Amer
lean landscape, and where one played 20 years
ago thousands now go in for golf. And tha
playing is not in the interest OF becoming
models of perfection for the game, but in the
interest of restored nerves, better sleep, re-
newed vim and vigor for the days tasks, to
say nothing of lust going round" for the
sheer pleasure of walk with a minor and
major objective in view.
Base ball is as interesting and vigorous a
sport as golf, interesting the juvenile portion
of the American population from the active
side more, perhaps, than golf.
Foot ball also builds strong bodies and in
doing so adds to the stamina of the Ice
hockey in the Winter swimming in the Sum-
mer. inter high-school athletic contests. all keep
Americans advancing in physical measure.
But it Is to American girlhood and maiden
hood that must turn to get the fun con-
ception Of what the physical standard Of the
American people is to be when some one or
some agency sits down and makes an earnest
effort to put out in comparative data the
physical improve ment or deterioration from one
decade to another.
The girls of today will be the mothers of
tomorrow, and the physical freedom that is
theirs now is born of the 'be natural" move
ment, in turn born of the World War period.
Physically, the World War emancipated woman
r1A Nt.nA
stifed her figure. The reform In dress that
swept through the ranks of womanhood left
her on tn heights of physical enjoyment of
hfe-walking running, riding, boating SWIM
ming, goldng, hockeying and tennis BY virtu0
of that emancipation, American womanhood -
today and the womanhood of tomorrow are I'M
doubleday of a higher physical standard.
QUT one thing remains to mar all of this,
u according to the United States Public
Health Service-that is, health fads All the
bodybuilding that Nature does can be wiped
out in no time by some health fad-some queer
notion that ct will get too fat" or IT am too
fat and must reduce" The Health Service
points out:
Breathing exercises are desirable but are far
better taken outdoors accompanied by food and
thorough mastication of foods is. CT course,
necessary.
Some people eat too much meat or other
kinds OF food, and water is good thing for the
body but TO suppose that any one regime is the
one and only requisite of health is confession
that the subject has not been investigated with
any degree of seriousness This should be given
every consideration.
1T is fact that good habits in eating have
lot to do with health snd efncisncy and even
disposition. Next to colds and diseases of the
respiratory organs, people usually suffer more
from digestive troubles than from any other
aInent. Good eating habits require taking into
account not only what you eat but how to eat,
how much to eat and what should not be eaten
These food problems should be considered By