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Show HEALTH Keep It by the Use of These Exercises. BY EDNA EGAN. (PPra HEN working to keep one's pil 7y health by means of exercise, &Jz several main facts should be borne in mind Remember that many parts of the body whose proper functioning is necessary to health usually contrive to work to only about one-fifth of their capacity throughout the day. Hence they re-auire re-auire snecial exercise In order to keen them in really good condition. An example of the latter will be found in tho movement of bending tho knee upward Of course, one cannot walk without bending tho knee somewhat, some-what, but now that stair climbing is an almost obsolete activity there is no daily task which sufficiently works the leg muscles. Flinging the leg sideways, the exercise ex-ercise suggested, belongs In the category cate-gory of necessary movements A well bred mother of Victorian days would have been disgraced for life had her girl ever been seen in so unladylike an attitude; consequently it is a movement move-ment to be strenuously adopted in the present period of enlightenment Thoso forms of exercise cannot bo properly executed by a person hampered hamp-ered by the laws of conventionality of the last century, nor by the latest decrees de-crees of fashion. Hence, the ensuing exercise of leg flinging sideways must be done minus heel3 and corsets and, like all other exercise for health, it shou.d be performed with wide open windows. 1. Place the hands upon the hips, fingers forward, thumbs behind. 2. Fling tho right leg straight sideways side-ways and do not bend the knee. 3. Replace the right foot 4. Perform the same movement with the left leg. Eight times will be sufficient at first for this exercise. Try to keep every other part of tho body motionless while the leg moves. Any one who tries this movement will realize at once that it is a powerful pow-erful hip reducer, for tho muscles which fling the leg sideways requlro so much blood to enable them to perform per-form their task that the muscle v.j11s are increased in this locality and the adjoining fat cells are crowded out When the right leg Is raised sideways side-ways or th trunk bent to the right it causeB a certain amount of masBago to the surface of the liver, which obliges the blood loafing within the liver cells to move on. The only way to maintain a good circulation Is to force tho blood along to the heart, which promptly sends it out to the lungs for oxygen and then when it returns sends it around in its freshly aerated state to that locality where It jrilj do Ihe, most gojjd, |