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Show Kicrri-c and Health. Exercise, with loth men and women, ha question of Intelligence a ensideratiou of kind and quality qual-ity rather than of degree. The subject sub-ject has for wouicn peculiar embarrassments embar-rassments and limitations, particularly particu-larly In the close house-bound life of the city. In Uie country there-arc there-arc tho natural morning duties, with often windows and Mending Mend-ing sunlight, Uie walk to the deiot or for thu mail, quiet aud calming; tbe long piazzas. pi-azzas. Iu tbe city nine women out of ten are victims of morning gowns aud slippers. A man's hat, coat and gloves hang iu the hallway, hall-way, always in readiness. What would he say if boots trousers and coat were to bo changed, after an hour, before hu could get out for a breath of all? Whiiuiuauy women still follow the traditions or delicacy and helplessness that lia-e fur so many ears enshrined and enfeebled their sex, yet they liavecome,all the same, to undirstarol, through the efforts nf many of their sisters who must perforce be strong, that n poor physique JsiLs a woman atodds, and at the mercy of others when the stress or life comes. In Uie new creed to which women are giving allegiance it will come to be nn article ar-ticle in time that weakness, unless Inherited, Is sin. The youne woman wo-man of the future will fulEI the pect's ideal: "She gave him her hand; it was not a helpless one." JCmma il'&ct Tytir;, in Jtarpcr'a Wcelh. |