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culty and says that he is getting old is inviting old age much faster than 

 he who plays with boys and girls, keeps in touch with books and nature, 

 and has not courted worry and fear of old age. 



Gail Hamilton objected to the term " marry and settle down." It is 

 easy after a day of fatigue to find it difficult to harness the team and drive 

 out to social affairs ; but just because such a tendency is becoming habitual 

 one should pull himself together and go anyhow, whether or not it is easy 

 to do so. Contact with other people, old and young, keeps the spirit 

 young; while the habit of growing into fixed ways of staying at home will 

 invite gray hair, wrinkles, and other indications of years. Young-looking 

 men and women whose sons and daughters have grown up, are very at- 

 tractive members of society. Very often others inquire of them, " How 

 did you manage to keep so young? " Perhaps it was the very sympathy 

 and companionship with their children that brought to the youthful- 

 appearing parents that happy condition. 



" The year's at the spring 

 And day 's at the morn; 

 Morning 's at seven; 

 The hill-side's dew-pearled; 

 The lark 's on the wing; 

 The snail 's on the thorn; 

 God 's in his heaven — 

 All 's right with the world." 



SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY AND CLUB DISCUSSION 



i. Try at intervals the exercises suggested in this bulletin. While per- 

 forming them, keep the weight forward on the balls of the feet, with the 

 chest high, the hips back, and the chest and bust in advance of the abdo- 

 men. Exercises taken in improper positions are worse than none, since 

 they bring strain on the organs and lead to unnatural attitudes. 



2. Do not omit the rest and relaxing exercises of yawning, stretching, 

 laughing. They all aid in digestion and prevent insomnia, nervous exhaus- 

 tion, and nerve tension. They add to the normal, healthful condition of 

 mind and body. 



3. It would be well to use at each meeting the exercises described, ap- 

 point a leader, and, if possible, obtain the assistance of some one who has 

 given special attention to the study of the exercises. Avoid an undue 

 amount of muscular strain, as some of the exercises call into use muscles 

 unused to work. Those muscles may be gradually strengthened, however, 

 to serve in the work of the house and to save strain on the spine. 



4. Discuss the application of the exercises outlined in this bulletin to 

 attitudes taken in housekeeping. 



