Show Receiving Exercise We American women have at last become be-come fully aroused as to the importance of exercise and with characteristic energy en-ergy we allmen women and children have gone at it and are exercising indoors in-doors and out of doors as hard and fast as over we can This would be a fine thing if our lives were not quite so full and hurried and if we were as a people a trifle more stolid Unfortunately we have yet to learn the meaning of the word rest until we do exercise may prove to tht majority of us a dubious blessing Now why not be exercised The Turkish Turk-ish bath is one step in that direction and the floor rest is another Any woman who is fortunate enough to command the services ofa ladys maid or who can call in an attendant at stated times or can secure the cooperation of one of her own family can receive exercise exer-cise instead of exercising When a long and hard day of social or serious duties is before or behind her this royal way of resting the muscles and stimulating the respiration is good and most efficacious Have a warm blanket or drugget kept esnecially for this purpose spreal smoothly on the floor then get into loose garments and place yourself at full length on this hard bed for half an hours manipulation While you lie as limp and indifferent as a rag baby your attendant whom you have previously instructed gently rolls and kneads your body lifts and drops and twists and swings your arms and legs The head the bodys fifth limb receives re-ceives much the same treatment that is given the legs and arms but should be handled with special gentleness Your own duties consist in first assuring as-suring yourself that your breathing is full free and contfoiled by the diaphragm dia-phragm and then in surrendering yourself to a nirvano like indifference to all things I happen to knowa very pretty woman who for some years past has indulged i herself three or four times weekly at bedtime bed-time in this sort delicioul first rest ti I recall her when she way a trifle awkward awk-ward and constrained in her bearing but now she is as joyously free and buoyant in all her movementaas a forest dryad MARIANNA MCAKN 1 1ft |