Show PHYSICAL EDUCATION when looking back over the school year ot of 1928 29 there flashes before my mind a mental picture of all my class rooms my much loveland love dand and respected teachers and all ot of my fellow students who have been such good pals s flashes the memory of my physical education class and all that it has represented to me and all the virtues and good fellowship it has hai taught me when taking in consideration all the diffen different ent morals which were worked into the method of progress so fittingly I 1 feel we have learned much we were first taught the meaning of good sportsmanship and to except defeat without chagrin the ambition of every earnest girl Is to be strong and well the foundation of wholesome earnest living Is a healthy mind in a healthy body A girl need worry little about her future but she should earnestly set herself to keep her body clean and wholesome and strong health Is the key to practically all the prizes in life position money and friends the girl who Is peevish and irritable because of indigestion or headaches may have soft brown hair and beautiful violet eyes but to her friends and acquaintances she Is not so beautiful as tho the girl whose only attraction Is her healthy skin clear ey eyes ea and eager enthusiasm which comes from good health the girl who Is well and strong Is a more agreeable friend than one who Is sickly recently at a fashionable seashore bo hotel where moneyed people gathered from all parts of the country the most popular woman of the season was a comparatively poor girl who had accompanied her aunt she was not beautiful her clothes were e not elegant she could not paint or sing she was not a brilliant conversationalist but she was bubbling over with good health and energy sho she played tennis and golf she swam rode horseback and danced it did one good just to watch her walk she was so sturdy she really enjoyed living and imparted some of this joy to others what this girl did any other girl can do by training the body the body Is the servant by means of which we work and play and we succeed largely in proportion to the treatment and training which we ire give it there are two ways of giving the body the kind of training that it needs one Is by means of so called exercises and the other Is through recreation and athletic sports such as tennis basketball and swimming some form forin of outdoor recreation is available to practically every young woman whether she lives in a big city or in an obscure country spot after exercising strenuously should be followed by a cool bath a brisk rubbing down and a few mill minutes complete rest by beginning these exercises with a minimum number of times and perspiring in doing them until they become a habit they will do much good doubtless many a girl will make a wry face at these directions and say that it Is all easy enough but it Is not in the least interesting very little it if any drill work is at first interesting the tun full in doing such exercises as those mentioned will consist in ill watching the body slowly but surely gain in strength and grace keep a little notebook of measurements set down against the date of each day just how low many minutes you jave gave to these exercises and add your chest arm waist and hip measurements many girls have suffered agonies 0 of self lit in entering or leaving church cli lit in rising to recite at school in ushering a caller into her parlor and so BO on this is largely bc cause she does not have her body under perfect control and exorcise exercise will do more to give her ease and relieve her front from awkwardness than I 1 iny any other thing good looks and ine fine clothes will not make a person graceful and charming without elther either of 0 these a girl may be attractive and winning it if she has health and well trained muscles sometimes orne times the winter blocks block the activities which have yielded so BO much pleasure and profit during the other months in many cases it will be impossible to carry on systematically any kind hind of outdoor sport then the enterprising girl will find somo some indoor substitute for her energy with patience and a little help from her fattier father or brother a rude gymnasium can be fitted up with chest cheat weights suspended ropes vaulting horses and the like A girl should satisfy herself that even it she Is tar far removed from modern equipment and Is handicapped by lack of money she still has the enterprise and patience necessary to bring opportunity to herself it ought not to be necessary to utter any special warning about any kind of exercises or recreation in all the water sports in horseback riding jumping and the like there Is an element of danger but the character of these sports la Is such that they arouse in the girls courage alertness and resourcefulness and thus minimize the dangers with which they are surrounded fewer girls are injured by sports than by improper sitting at their desks at school and in their easy chairs at home common sense must be applied to fun and exercise just as it is to work and study try to do well and to excel ln in whatever you undertake whether it be latin or cooking or swimming that Is put your whole soul into al all your atsas do not let the thought of what someone else can or cannot do spoil your good time or the benefit which you should derive from your work and your play while too much time may be devoted to athletics the danger Is rather on the other side since exercise spells health donalda falkenburg |