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Show I MOST PERFECT GIL ENJOYING I HER OliTtNG IN OfiDEN CANYON I MISS MARGARET EDWARDS. 1 .Fresh from a twenty-eight mile horseback ride through the mountain passes east of Ogden as fresh, by the way, as when she started out on the trip Margaret Edwards, the "perfect "per-fect girl," appeared just before sunset yesterday evening on the upper porch of the Hermitage hotel in Ogden can-von can-von and was introduced by her mother, mo-ther, Mrs. L. Edith Edwards. The !two took up a temporary residence in the canyon on Tuesday to enjoy a period of rest before the opening of ,WI the Orpheum theatro, for the 1915-1G HUj vaudeville season, when Miss Ed-Wjl Ed-Wjl wards will mako her bow to the local H public as the "headllncr" of the first HII week's program, her act being an In-fl In-fl terpretatlon of classic dancing , H j The young lady she Is just past Hj 17 exuberates life and health from H! every inch of her 5 feet 2 1-8 inches H9 of height and 112 1-2 pounds of weight Hllf which Is as near an Ideal form for H fl the perfect dancer, according to Mrs. HIjJ Vernon Castle, as could possibly be Hjjj attained. And the greatest lesson, hHIll probably, that can be taken from this H)j vision of perfect health, Is that, as Hjljl her mother says, her soul shines from H her eyes. Miss Edwards is not a H product of the gymnasium, but of llv- H ing a natural life, guided by a mother H 0 who 1b a teacher of a new type of H I physical culture, the principles of Hl which is a co-ordination of the mind HjlPi with the body in all work and exer-Hjm exer-Hjm else. Hllfg She appeared yesterday ovenlng as Hjjli a genuine child of the old America, with brown ringlets falling over her muscular shoulders and gowned in n pink silk waist and i:ding skirt, with naught but a pair of gymnasium shoes to cover her feet, her blue eyes sparkling spark-ling with a light of happiness and intelligence in-telligence that was well worth taking a trip from the city to see. Her conversation, con-versation, too, measures up to her appearance, for in it was an entire absence of self-consciousness and clear expression of cultured thought. Mi6S Edwards is ambitious to mako her way to the top alone, sho says, and has already refused several flattering flat-tering offers to tour with different musical organizations as a co-attraction Her aim, too, is to create an "American" style of clasblc dancing, and, from reports of her work thus far received, she will realize her ambition. am-bition. Sweeping, dusting and other forms of housework, the young dancer believes and has proved, are good for girls and the- special exercises for more perfect development must be taken without the aid of apparatus, hence her aversion to gymnasiums. She has a lung expansion of six Inches. To get this, she first developed devel-oped flexibility of the chest, forcing in the lower chest with the hands, while exhaling through the mouth, and inhaling through the nostrils, always al-ways exhaling before Inhaling With the thumbs under the armpits, she forces the upper chest In and breathes as in the former case Weak abdominal ab-dominal muscles, she states, bring on neurasthenia and other nervous dis orders. Her exerclRes to strengthen these is simply to lock tho thumbs above the head and touch tho toes without bending tho icneos. She cautions a beginner against atralning. Miss Edwards and her mother havo their home at Berkeley, Cal., where they conduct a school or special instruction in-struction in physical culture, Mrs Edwards having a class of medical student1? from the University of California. Cali-fornia. To her instruction, tho daughter daugh-ter owes her wonderful development from a sickly child to a type of healthy young womanhood that ma.de her a center of intoroBt to medical men and an example of what can bo done by a co-ordination of mind and physical action. While both Jb 'necessary, 'neces-sary, Mrs. Edwards says, oxerciso for girls is more important than for boys, for in tho health of its women lies the strength of tho future generation |