WHAT EXERCISE TO TAKE DAILY
the exercises described in the previous chapter, as aimed to effect such development, and practise them as assiduously, if need be, as Rowell did his tread-mill work for his legs.
DAILY EXERCISE FOR WOMEN
And what should the girls and women do each day? With two-pound wooden dumb-bells at first, let them, before breakfast, go through twenty-five movements of each of the five sorts just described for young men. After six weeks or two months they can increase the number to fifty, and, if this does not bring the desired increase in size, and strength of arm and chest and back, then they can try dumb-bells weighing four or five pounds each, and spend the time at the exercises.
Out-of-doors, either in the latter part of the morning or afternoon, if they will, in broad, easy shoes (so that each toe comes down flat) walk for one hour, not at any listless two-mile pace, but at first as fast as they comfortably can; and then gradually increasing until in a fortnight or more they can make sure of three miles and a half at least, if not of four miles within the hour; and will observe the way of stepping just suggested to the men, they will get about walking enough. And if once in a while, every Saturday, for instance, they make the walk all of five or six miles, getting, if city-ladies, quite out into the suburbs and back; they will be surprised and gratified at the greater ease with which they can walk now than formerly; and at their freshness at the end. Reports from India say that English ladies there often spend two or three hours daily in the saddle. Every American lady who can manage to ride that much, or half of it; and at a strong, brisk page; will
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