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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![moil among us. Ask the family physician, and he will endorse this statement to an extent most men would not have supposed. American women are not good walkers. Look how they are astonished when they hear of some hidy who walks from five to ten miles a day, and thinks nothing of it. One such effort would he ])ositively dangerous to very mail}', indeed probably to the majority of our women, while nearly all of them would not get over its effects for several days. Yet many English and Canadian ladies take that much exercise daily from choice, and finding the exhilaration, strength, and health it brings, and the general feeling of effi- ciency which it produces, would not give it up. iNo regular exercise is common among the great majo- rity of the women of this country, which makes them use both their hands alike, and is yet vigorous enough to add to the size and strength of their shoulders, chests, and arms. Ordinary house-work brings the hands of those who indulge in it a good deal to do, even though the washing and ironing are left to hired help. The care of children adds materially to the exertion called for in a da3^ But far too often both the house-work and the looking after the children are sources of great exertion. AVere the woman strong and full of vigour, she would turn each off lightly, and still be fresh and hearty at the end of the day.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28079656_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
