Show Romping Girls Most women have a dread of them Mothers would rather have their little daughters called most anything any-thing else than romps They say to them Be very quiet now my dears dont run and jump but belittle be-little ladies As if a healthy child could be still as if it could take time to walk or step over what came in its way as if it could fold its hands in its lap when its little heart is brimful of tickle It is absurd ab-surd and wrong because it is unnatural un-natural Children girls as well as boys need exercise indeed they must have it to keep in a healthy condition They need to expand ex-pand their chests strengthen their muscles tone their nerves develop de-velop themselves generally And this exercise must be out of doors too It is not enough to have calisthenics calis-thenics in the nursery or parlor they need toJoe out in the sunshine out in the wind out in the grass out in the woods out of doors some where if it be no bigger than the i do common or park Suppose they tan their pretty faces better be brown as a berry and have the pulse quick and strong than white as a lily and complain of cold feet and a headache Suppose they do tear their clothes suppose they do wear out their shoes it dont try a mothers patience 1 I i half so much to mend as it does to I watch night after night a querulous f ick child and it dont drain a fathers pocketbook hilf as quick to buy shops as it does to pay doctors doc-tors bills No mothers dont nurse up your little girls like houseplants The daughters of this generation are to be the mothers of the next and if you would fit them for lifeiti joys its cares and trialslet them have a good romp every day while they are growing It is natures own specific and if taken in season is warranted to cure all ails of the girls and women |