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Show LET THE C1RLS ROMP. THE EVILS OF EXCESSIVE STUDY ANp LACK OF IXBHCISK, Cluii part! the form and health of a boy i sixteen with a girl of tbe same agi;. Why should tho girl be so slender, so Irail, and so diseased? The auuwer is plain. She is not allowed io use aud thus develop her muscles and bones. Food and exercise are the necessary terms ol playful growth. She gets neither. Girls should use and develop every muscle and every bone that will favor the circulatiou of the blood, remove old particles aud deposit new in all their organs and tissues. They nocd not cry but laugh Deartily at any time and in any place, proper for Buch means of growth. The delightful exerciss has all the advantage of crying iu infancy. Mothers who are blessed with daughters should begin early in life, when the muscles and bones are soft and pliable, to train thom. As soon as they begin to creep teach ihem to creap "on aM-(oura, " and thus expand their lungs and btrengthen their chests; teach them, when their ribB are soft and yielding, "to take a Ion? breath" many times a day, and then when they enter school their teachers should continue the same exercises and others which have a tendency to develop the cheat, containing con-taining the essential organ ol life that crea;es vital blood and beauty and drives it through all its rouodB and gives form and beauty to their persens. Calisthenics will do more good toward enlarging and strengthening strengthen-ing their bones and muscles, and do more toward making them useiut women, than all the modern languages io the world. Moderate exercise of the muscles develops and strengthens them, and so moderate exercise of the mental faculties enlarges en-larges and strengthens them. Our girls should not be confined to their books more than eix hours id the twenty fcur. Excessive studying weakens the mind aud body. iso people on the lace of the earth do so much toward enfeebling girls as the Americans. We do not object to proper female education. We advo- j L-ato it; but we do object to the very j; common neglect ut developing the body. Muscles and bones never j grow stronger by indolence r disuse. How unwise to sacrifice the health of the body to the cramming of the mind. Dove'op them both. Give girls a sound body aud a sound mind. What am many of our well educated girls good for? Feeble, sickly bodies, with weaker brains! Girls need nutritious nutri-tious food, and cnnatnnt exercise to chango that food to vigor and strength. To obtain tho yreatuBt amount of good from food and exercise, exer-cise, they must bt-gin early. It is rather late in the day improve a house when it hi. no firm foundation, when ite brick and mortar are falling into decay. A physician may do something toward lessening the ! feebleuees and sufieriugs of thwe girls 'who arc built, of starch and butler. Tue Swiee rarely eat anything but bread, cheese and butter, and drink milk. They are a stroug, active and vigorous peoph', so that meat is not absolutely necessnry. Still our daughters eat bo little cheese, so little nitrogen or Qeoh-muking Qeoh-muking food, thai they should eat meat. They almost universally prefer pre-fer starchy food. They coneume so little nutriment containing phosphorus phos-phorus that thoir vitality, their strength, their muscle and their activity is less than that of any other people. Thny prefer pies and ' sweel-meatd sweel-meatd to meat and polatoeB and fish, no that they are spare, feeble and nervouH. They consume starch aud still need slays. Tuey Bhould consume con-sume more gluten and less sugar; i have let mental and more physical exercise. The latter will increaso the . appetite and aid iu digestion aud converting con-verting food ii-to the blood. Im-I Im-I proper food and no exercise create disease. Good food aud sufficient exercise, create health. Chicago Tribune. |