People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — Housework as an Exercise. [ARTICLE]

Housework as an Exercise.

When a man expresses an opinion about the desirability of housework for women we are apt to think him an Interested party. But the Medical Record, which may be supposed to be free from such motives, says: “To keep the complexion and spirits good, to preserve grace, strength and agility of motion, there is no gymnasium so valuable, no exercise more beneficial in result, than sweeping, dusting, making beds, washing dishes, and the polishing of brass and silver. One year of such muscular effort within doors, together with regular exercise in open air, will do more for a woman’s complexion than all the lotions and pomades that ever were invented. Perhaps the reason why housework does so much more for women than games is the fact that exercise which is immediately productive cheers the spirit. It gives women the courage to go on liviiig, and make* things seem really worth while ”