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/ ) L HXIL NO 34 VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, APRIL, 7 1004 TERMS $1 A YEAR CASH of April, giving this section a direct line to the sea. Great is the A & B., aud fartunate is the country through which it runs. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. HEALTH SUGGESTIONS.. Proper Exercise. Letter No. 7. of a series of 20. Copyrighted 1904 by Christine Herriok. in a closed room. Half as muoh unused, a week or ten days there- time spent in the'fresh air would be after. If she is to derive full ad- of twice as muoh value. tage from her cycling, she must Beoause of the growing appre- make it an everyday matter, weather oiation ot fresh air exercise among permitting. Not the amount, but physicians and stuidents of hygene the regularity. By this I do not everywhere 1 am glad to see the moan that the day’s run must always returning and increasing interest in bo of uniform length. They may be Everyone recognizes the power of th^.bioyole, as testified to by publio extended or contracted as seem ad- diet in preserving health. Diet is. opinion and the advertising columns rumble* But the unwavering habit muoh, but it is not all. It must be pt the daily press and other publi- of riding must be kept up and the supplemented by a variety of other cations. Physicians tell us, that body thus preserved in condition for things. Among the most important rightfully used, a wheel is one of work or piny, of these is regularity of habits, the best friend i of the grown or The necessity for regular exorois© I onoe heard a man who had made ungrown person who wishes to take is winning attention more and more, muoh of himself physically, after outdoor exercise, because it not only The whole problem for proper bodily starting with a very poor natural gives play to the muscles of the development has of late years equipment, say that he attributed a body but furnishes to the rider the received serious consideration by great deal of his soi.nd condition to sense of doing something and getting the medical fraternity and the laity, the fixed periods at which he took somewhere. The popularity of the various sys- food. “I find it better, he said, One of the discouraging features tem of physical training is a good ■••to break my fast at dinner time by a of exercise for exercise’s sake is that indication and many of theso sohools sandwich, when I cannot have a full it must seem futile and dull to the seem to have accomplished good, meal, than to wait for an hour or two busy woman or man who does every- One of these that appeals to one for my regular dinner. The stom- thing else with some object in vie,v. peculiarly, by reason of Us breadth aoh is a oreture of habit and if you When a moman sweeps she is oxer- and value of its scope, is the Araer- take liberties with it you are bound cising, but she is also accomplishing loan Institute of Physical Culture, to make it uncomfortable sooner or something. When Hlie goes out, This is a Boston enterprise and is later.,, Another man of similar unless she has an object for her walk endorsed by men whose names stand ■experience said later in my hearing, she is generally bored by it. Wo for much in their respective lines., that there was nothing worse for one read of English women walking It is rather unusual in that the than irregular exercise. “These wo- three miles out on the turnpike and ethical side is made of paramount men who start out and walk seven three miles back in the laudable per. importance, miles In one afternoon and then take suit of exoroise and we think with a Many women, young and old, no more vigourous exercise for a superior thrill that an American would be materially beuefitted in week, do themselves more harm than woman would find some more inter- general health, pose and body, clear- good,” he declared. “The rog- esting way of winning to the same ness of complexion and kceuncss of uiarity more than the amountpf the end. But when we hear' of stont mind by a course of moderate phys- cxeroise is what works benefit. New York women who post so many ical training under a guidance which Which leads to the necessity for times around the reservoir in Cen- gives proper consideration to indi- •exercise, and regular exeroise at that, tral Park in the endeavor to reduce vidual needs. It is this whioh 19 No one can alford to get along tke r flesh, we wonder if after all furnished by this Boston school, without it The man or woman we are so much ahead of the Britons and by its well arranged cor res pond- who wishes to preserve health must in enterprise and invention. ence system the directors are able to mot miss it, while ihe man or wo- When a woman is on a wheel it is keep in touob with their pupils all ■man who desires to restore health a different tiling. She is taking the over the country. These teachers must be even more assiduous. The air and exercising her musoles. But too, insist upon regularity as a women who allow themselves to be- she is also getting somewhere,—to fundamental part of the physical come run down must reouperate by pay a call, to do an errand, to make training they direct. ■other means than physic. Promi- t e acquaintance of a bit of road that Similar regularity is essential so nent among these stands rational had been too remote to explore On far as sleep is concerned for those ■oxeroise. It matters little what foot. A New England dootor has who tyish to keep their health. Ido -form it takes, so that it is rational put himeelf on record by declaring not mean : b.y this a fixed hour for •and persued steadily. One more among the advantages of the bicycle retiring must be immutable in the -qualification- it must possess: It that “it interests people and keeps ease of adults,—although it is a pity -should be taken as much as possible them out of doors, two very 'impor- they-cannot submit themselves to •out of doors, or at least in the fresh tant factors* in'a healthy^happy some such, ,standard. While the Air. This is one of the drawbacks life.” exigencies of life forbid this, they ■to such games as ping-pong, excel- Yet the woma*'makes a mistake if permit a reasonable amount of rule lent as they are in other respeots’. she takes a long runon her wheel one ahd .precept concerning slumber. They areplayed indoors,'and usually^ ay and allows it to gather.- dust,-Theroaro few women who cannot maiutain a tolerably striot regimen so far as habits of sleop are con cerned. The mothers of little obildron must resign themselves to broken nights, but the majority of wives and mothers and still raoro the younger women, may have a fixed time for retiring and 'adhere (o this with some degree of strictness. It is very well to allot “six hours of sleep to a man, seven to a woman and eight to a fool,” bb the Old proverb runs, but the Bo-oallcd fool’s allowance is none too muoh for the greater part of mankind and womankind. Besides this there aro other health considerations to bo borno in mind. Dress is among them. A well- known physician in an English medical journal has written recently against the evil of tight lacing, and has laid to this much of woman’s ill temper. The writer, who is a woman and evidently knows where of she speaks, tells of the compressed organs, the restricted blood vessels, the hampered nerves, and declares it is no wonder that the ayerage woman is irritable and impatient. It is said that there was never yet a woman who would confess to laoing tightly, but in confidential conclave they will sometimes own that perhaps the laces arc once in a while draw more Bniigly than \p altogether comfortable,—always by accident, of coursel Those who confess to this will probably acknowledge to pains m the legs and back that hinder their activity of motion and make any brisk movement, or evon standing, painful. All this should be abandoned by the woman who wonld keep well. She may wear a corset, but it shoald not only be of theright out and be put on properly, but it should be worn loose enough to allow her freedom and avoid all danger of discomfort. Sometimes it- seems as. though a special providence must watoh oyer, all women in general and young women in particular, that they are still alive on the face of the earth. The foolish things they do, the risks they run are enough to drive a mere man to despair. See the girls who go. out insufficiently clad, 1 who •pride themselves on omitting heavy flannels from their winter wardrobe, who negloot overshoes, affoot thin soles and do a multitude of other suoh idiotio things. Thoso orrors alone should be onough to deoimato their ranks, even if they did not eat things that aro bad for them, ruin thoir iceth and their stomqohs with sweets and indulge in a host of other insane notions. After they have grown old enough to learn wisdom they may try to reform, but by that time they have usually laid the foundation for ill health or at least impaired their ooustitutioni to suoh an axtent that thoy are nover quite well, oven if they do not entoll themselves among the invalids. Perhaps the women of the rising generation will grasp the faot that they are not made of indcstruotible material and try to take eare of themselves while they are still in fair condition. For those who have done themselves injury there is still hope if they will addresB themselves to tho task of repairing damages and preventing further harm. This' is not to be done by over dosing, but, to repeat the injunctions already laid down, by correct food, dress and habits of sleep and by regular and well directed exeroise in the open air. . E. J. SMITH WEDS. The Gazette joins his many friends in extending congratulations to Mr E J Smith of jU&p^a, and his oharming bride, formerly Miss Viola King.-Tifton Gazette. Harrah for Emmett. He is a Dooly county boy, brother to Renta, Jaok, and Joe, making a suocess of life m the turpintine woods. W. G. GUNN DEAD. The frieds and relatives of Mr. W. G. Gunn a^e psjned to learn that death has taken him away. He has been feeble in health nearly a year. It : was though t at first that he : had consumption; then heart -trouble. Dropsy finally developed,'I and iof that h6 was taken away. He died Sunday night at hisnewltpnie near Byromville. Mr. Gunn wasi raised in-the 3rd district of 1 Dooly* near •Eureka. He was about 40iyear«iold, a member of the Baptist ohuroh, and wais buried MondayatHarpioiiy. [ ,c. .ayr-iiPH/; .