| Show follow these exercises to tb keep figure by PATRICIA LINDSAY 0 bell syndicate service WHY wern HY is it necessary for the modern woman to use an artificial method to strengthen her muscles and to promote good health it is because our manner of living offers almost no opportunity to usel use the larger important muscles of the body the abdominal back and thigh muscles we live inactive lives we travel by motor or train more than we walk we do our housework with electrical aids or have servants do it for us most office jobs abs demand eight hours of sitting and frequently in poor posture selling V work in stores requires the over use of the legs and feet sewing writing bridge and many other so called activities tivi ties are actually games no substitute you probably think that recreational sports such as tennis bowling badminton golf and riding are sufficient exercise but they are not they stimulate the body through increased circulation and allow the skin pores to secrete waste but they do not build the body symmetrically because they are one sided 0 seldom is a woman adept in using both her right hand and her left hand in sports walking can be an excellent activity if it is done on soil which allows a spring to the thae step and it if the body is carried with good posture at a steady pace and if you wear loose clothing and correct walking shoes swimming is the excel exception tion in recreational reat ional sports it exercises all the muscles of the body providing no one stroke is over practiced and it develops the body symmetrically and beautifully |
