WALKING AS AN EXERCISE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4594, 26 September 1883, Page 2

WALKING AS AN EXERCISE.

Girls should take at least two hours' exercise ia the open air every day of their lives. Before breakfast is a good time for a gentle walk, yet the delicate should swallow a mouthful or two of milk or eat a tiny biscuit before going out. A glass of cold watefVdoes good also before one's walk, and it is a good plan to walk half a mile a mile to a well, take a glass of water there, and return. To those -who take this advice breakfast will be anything but a make-believe. Never take 'exercise on a full meal. From two or three hours after is the best time, and if you take your principal exercise before din ncr, be sure to allow time for at least one half hour's rest before you sit down, else-you open the door for indices* tion to wiilkiin and play havoc with your health. Exeroisa to be beneficial must be regular.. But speaking of the weather; wrap up lightly, but well, and defy it. Defy the-wind, the rain, and sleet and snoj£ itself, for one does not catch cold when actually taking exercise. Finally, let your exercise be varied, but always pleasant, always pleasurable, and taken at the Bame hour- each day. You may find it irksome at first, but it will scon become habit, &.ad your reward will be health.