Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — Beneficial. [ARTICLE]

Beneficial.

Carrying weights upon the head graduated to the strength of the bearer, tends to straighten the spine and improve the condition of the chest. This form of exercise, taken for say half an hour a day, will do mjich good to young people who are becoming stooped and round-shouldered. The exercise should be commenced at an early age, and the weight must be very light to commence with. It should at first,. Indeed, be more an exercise of balancing. The wife—“ One half the world doesn’t know how the other half lives.” The husband—“ Well, it isn’t the .fault of your sewing society, any way.”—Life.