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regularly and judiciously taken. There is one amusement 

 which is rapidly gaming ground among ladies, and which, 

 within certain limits, must be a healthy and exhilarating one. 

 I refer to bicycle-riding. Of course this, like horseback 

 exercise, is not within the reach of everyone, but those who can 

 afford to indulge in it will be amply rewarded. It is a very 

 good substitute for walking, and has the advantage of enabling 

 one to get over the ground with greater rapidity, so that in a 

 comparatively short time and with a minimum amount of 

 exertion, those residing in the towns can run out into the 

 country and enjoy the fresh breeze, and that pleasure which 

 comes of healthy exercise and rapid motion through the air. 

 "With the same exertion four times the distance can be 

 accomplished on a bicycle that can be done walking. With 

 this exercise the respiration is at first quickened, but very soon 

 one learns to take deeper inspirations and to breathe more 

 slowly. This leads to a more frequent and complete change of 

 the air contained in the lungs which is not much affected by 

 ordinary respiration, and Avhicli is termed residual air, and the 

 lungs becoming more fully inflated, the chest walls in young 

 peeple, and to a certain extent in older people also, become 

 dilated, the breathing capacity being thereby increased. This 

 leads to greater and more complete aeration of the blood, with 

 the result that the appetite is promoted, the digestion improved, 

 the nervous system strengthened, and a healthier tone of the 

 general system established, and not least of all to the girls, an 

 improved complexion results. Such being the case, is it a 

 wonder that this amusement is becoming so fashionable, or I 

 should say so general in Europe and America. I have no 

 doubt but that much as we are behind the fashions here, we shall 

 soon be able to number our lady bicyclists by tens and twenties 

 instead of by ones and twos as at present. 



TEA DKINKING. 



More general and regular exercise will do away with that 

 craving for nervous stimulants which forms such a feature of 

 our inhabitants, and which manifests itself so strongly in the 

 tea-drinking propensities of the young and old of both sexes. 

 That this habit is making serious inroads upon the health of 



