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Show I - HOUSEWORK AS EXERCISER7 Toll at tbs Waahtnb Not loSllbfal Kffeets of Sweeping. Take tho wnshtub first. Nothing can i make that toll hygienic. One has to I bend over the tub, using the arm a I with a steady, strenuous motion, and at every breath (tiling the lunga with i f hot steam. Washing mny develop 'th I muscle of the arms, but It cramps 1 the back and contracts the chost Tha only relief possible Is to take a few f nilnutna fiequently for rest. I do not ,((! mean sitting down; that la not rest- , Ing. Go to the door or window and i take several long, deep breaths. i Straighten up the body, throw back t the shoulders and strike out with both i . arms. Exale the breath and drop th ; ' ' arms. Repeat this exercise ten or ' f, twelve times during the morning ' wash, and yml will be aatnnlshed at how much less tired you are than usual. When sweeping make both sides of thn liody do the work. Many a woman who would be classified by a dressmaker as a figure with one hip l . ' larger than the other has cultivated this figure by constantly using th muscle of one side while sweeping or mopping. It Is remarkable how a ' . few years of doing certain work In a contracted, bad position will alter th polae of the body. 1 have heard It said that th student of physical development develop-ment has a strange faculty, almoat Sherlock-IIolinea-IIke, of telling by a glance at a man or woman what bis or her calling la. Of course there ar certain conditions that they should have followed that calling a certain length of time and that It la a body physically untrained. Dread kneading affords a better exercise than washing, says Good Housekeeping. The stenm Is not present snd half an hour of steady motion such aa given to well-made well-made bread means good exercise for J the forearm, provided the molding board la at a proper bright and that one keepa the back and shoulders erect |