EDUCATE THE MUSCLES.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2059, 10 August 1875, Page 3

EDUCATE THE MUSCLES.

Much matrimonial* misery grows out of the complaints of an unhealthy wife (says-an English journal). When will our girls understand the grand truth that men prize*health .in 1 women'above all other things? The robust masculine half is so constituted that it soon tires of the pettish complaints (even though well founded) of the weaker f-minine half. Sentimental,."delicate " Miss Arammta, languidly rising from a lounge to mefet j her devoted lover, may look marvellously poetical in her white robo and blue nb-1 bons, and by weakness alone, forge another link in the mighty chain of love which binds his heart to hers. But a year laterjwhen the married man sees at his breakfast table a sallow-faced, untidy | female in a loose wrapper, who had lam awake all night with •" one of those dreadful sick-hoadaches," he fails to see the poetry of Mrs Araminta's appearance. Jf9o let -all. girls partake of every .active exercise not-absolutely uhfeminine, and trust to their being able to get into or out of a carriage with a light and graceful step, which no drillmg can accomplish. ■ Let them rise early and retire early to rest, and trust that their beauty will not need to.be coined into artificial smiles in order to secure a welcome, whatever room they enter. Let them ride, walk, run, dance in the open air. Encourage the merry and innocent diversions in wbichthe young delight; let them under proper guidance, • explore every hill and valley; let them 7plant and • cultivate the garden, and make hay when the summer sun shines, and surmount all dread of a shower of rain or the boisterous wind ; and, above all, let them take no medicine except when the doctor orders it.- The demons of hysteria and melancholy, so terrible to combat with in married life, might hover over a group of young so brought.up, but they would not find one of them.upon whom they could exercise any power.