How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G4 once gained, then equal work for all the muscles, taken daily, and in such quantities as are found to suit best. The variety of exercises open to w^oman, especially out-of-doors, is almost as great as to man. Every- one knows some graceful horsewoman, and it is a pity there were not a hundred where there is one. One of the most expert of our acquaintance is the mother of one of the most gifted metaphysicians in the land, and he already is a middle-aged man. There are a few ladies in this country, and a good many in England, who think nothing of a five or six-mile walk daily, and an occasional one of twice that length. Onee in a while a married woman here will do some long-distance skating. In Holland, in the season, it is with many an eveiy- day affair. Some of the best swimmers and floaters at the watering-places are women, and they certainly do not look much troubled with nervous- ness. More than one woman has distinguished herself in Alpine climbing. The writer onee saw a woman, apparently about twenty-eight, a.hand- some, vigorous, rosy Englishwoman, row her father from Putney to Mortlake, on the Thames, a distance of four miles and three furlongs, not at racing pace, to be sure, but at a lively speed. The measured precision of that lady^s stroke, the stately poise of the body and head, and the clean, neat, and
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