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Show l'lijslcnl Culture. Wccpoke last week about tho climbing climb-ing of stairs, nnd now I want tu talk to )ou a little bit about some other sorts of dally and common exercise. There Is excellent exctclse to be obtained from sw eeping a room, If It Is done property prop-erty and energetically. In the first place, it is far more necessary for jour good that the windows shall be wide open when you sweep a room even In the middle of the winter, than It Is necessary for the sake of the dust not getting into the carpets to wear them out You will wear out a grcot de,al faitcr than the carpets If you don't have fresh air to breathe, especially when you are raising all the microbes In the house with your broom, nnd are setting them afloat hi the air of your room Have not only air, but a strong draught. It is an excellent plan for you to cover the hair, as the dust microbes you are driving driv-ing from their resting places in and about the toomnrc not safe nor pleasant companions to have nbout yuu. A calico dress should aluajs be slipped on over a woolen dress In sweeping a room, as the dust will adhere to the woolen very tenaciously Now that you are properly dressed, and the windows ate open, move all your furniture about, as much as possible, getting It out of the room, and then begin )our sweeping. What I am now Interested hi to see that you take the proper position in this work, and not specially that )ou get the room clean bland ns nearly upright as you can 1 or this purpose, get a broom hindlethatlstall enough lor jou, and then do not try to push the dirt ahead of jou. That wny of dourg will neither get the room clan nor will It helpyour bod) Don t bend over any more than you can oss!bty Help, and what bending you have to do, be sure it Is a bending Irom the w alst, not from the shoulders Keep your shoulders up and ) our mouth closed. That last Is vitally Important Never permit your mouth to open nnd thus take thesu disease-breeding germs straight Into the lungs. Hrcathe through Ihc nose, that was wnat It was made for, and you cant better the woik of your Creator. Accustom yourself to using the broom on both sides, or ) ou u 111 get all the exercise ou the one side only, bo much for sweeping a room The same directions here given can be taken for all sorts of domestic work. In washing dishes, don't have your sink too low, nor to high If n man had to stand at a work table as man) hours a day as a woman stands at a sink, he would see to it that his table was of the Iiroper height bo also in moulding tread Moulding bread is a most ex-I ex-I cellent exercise It develops the arms and client wonderfully Only, dont I stoop I That is my one constant word ! of advice, don't stoop Young women of thirty look like old women of sevei ly when they stoop, and young worn in ul seventy look like younger women of thirty when they stand upright and trim I am quite positive that real old age will never touc I the bod) of the man or w oman w ho never permit himself or herself her-self to stoop over 'Throw back )cur shoulders! 'should tie printed on every wall In the house, and throw back your shoulders! ' should be shouted to every living human being from the age of two years to one hundred years old. Walking Walk-ing Is another exercise that is thought much of, but while it Is good lor legs and lungs, especially If taken in the open air nnd now especially If you walk brlsklej.jet tliere arc other exercises belter adapted to help a woman to keep strong than walking |
