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Show A Seasiblt Fed. The society women of Ashton, 111., have taken.up a fad that is sensible. ' . ''. They are going o walk. They are going to walk every day and walk far. That will cause a falling off in the receipts of the sellers of cosmetics and of the beauty doctors and it will augment the grocery bills. It will cause French heels to be discarded. ' Walking is splendid exercise if one knows how to walk. To'mince along for a few blocks tightly laced and wearing high-heeled shoes is not walking. BUT TO SWING ALONG WITH A FREE STRIDE FOR SEVERAL MILES,. DRINKING IN DEEP DRAUGHTS OF PURE AIR IS THE BEST EXERCISE EXER-CISE A WOMAN CAN TAKE. It will make her c heeks glow and it will make her eyes bright. N .WE PITY SOME OF THE WOMEN WE SEE. They ride in luxurious carriages. Their faces are pallid unless there is externally applied .color. The3" look bored and unhappy. If they, would walk from their homes down town and back ' for a month they would seem like different women, and they would feel different, too. j THE ADVANTAGE OF WALKING LIES IN THE FACT THAT IT TEACHES PEOPLE TO j .BREATHE. Men generally know something about it because they have chests that are not imprisoned in tight corsets. Women, however, rarely know ! bow to use their lungs. In fact they do not use all of them. AIR DOES NOT REACH THE LOWER PORTIONS OF THE LUNGS WHEN A WOMAN LACES TIGHT AND TAKES LITTLE OR NO OUTDOOR EXERCISE. Brisk walks will exercise the lungs in spite of the , precautions women take to keep them from being ,: exercised.. And it will be worth all the tonics in the world. : , -' . ' There is nothing better for a person than to draw I fresh air slowly into the lungs until every cell is : filled with oxygen and then to exhale as slowly until the lungs are completely emptied. IT WILL NOT : ONLY DEVELOP THE LUNGS BUT JT WILL : SEND THE BLOOD BOUNDING AND DANCING 'THROUGH ARTERIES AND VEINS UNTIL NERVES AND MUSCLES GLOW AND TINGLE. V Breathing is easy, but it is sadly neglected. - There is i no better physical culture. The example of the women of the Illinois town ' j is one that should be emulated everywhere. It is ! the most sensible of fads and the most beftcficiah THE WOMAN WHO PLAYS GOLF KNOWS i HOW TRUE THIS IS. ASK . HER, IF YOU DOUBT IT. .. |