UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' BAZAAR POSTER COMPETITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 47

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' BAZAAR POSTER COMPETITION.

(Photos by C. Gilling.)

THE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MESSRS CAMPBELL, EHRENFRIED'S STRAND ARCADE, AUCKLAND. ON AUGUST 16

— Wrigglesworth and Binns, photo,

(Photos by Tesla Studios.)

AUSTRALASIAN AMATEUR ATHLEHC CHAMPIONSHIPS AT BRISBANE

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— Guy, photo.

KITCHEN GYMNASTICS. ♦ A woman doctor writes that she often thinks that if the girls who spend so much time, money, and energy on physical culture would turn their attention to housework as a means of physical exercise they would derive a great deal of profit at a very small cost. Why not get interested in housework? she asks all girls, and try what dusting and sweeping and bedmaking will do for your health and good looks? But how can housework improve the figure? it may be asked. It is quite simple. The muscles of the spine, the shoulder-blades, the arms, and the body generally, are all brought into play in sweeping and dusting and bedmakdng. Business girls and girls who stay at home and yet do not absolutely need to help with housework -would find how much even an tour's brisk housework every morning would do for their health. Ball-punching is one of the fads of the hour. The fashionable ladles who spend so much time punching an elaborote ball would 1 derive just as much good from

poking and punching their bolsters and pillows, if they would engage upon the homely occupation of making their own beds. Turning the mattress entails a muscular effort which exercises- the muscles of the back and shoulders. Brisk dusting and sweeping provide healthful exercise at the minimum of cost to every woman who will give housework a trial. All women must have a certain amount of physical exercise to keep them in health. But they cannot all afford an expensive course of lessons in physical culture. So why not give housework a trial? If you are sensible women, and intend to go in for household gymnastics, remember first that housework done with open windows and plenty of fresh air about is ten times more valuable than the same work done in badly-ventilated rooms. So open the windows before you begin. Secondly, be careful to vary the type of " kitchen gymnastics " as much as possible. To avoid fatigue, there must be intervals of rest. Many a peevish, discontented, sallow, young woman would be transformed by a good liberal dose of housework.