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ANDF.RSONS PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

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morę than any natural aptitude they possess, and adds, “Being in a great measure debarred from those vigorous and enjoyable exercises of the body by wliich boys mi liga te the eyils of excessive study, girls feel these evils in their fuli intensity, hcnce the much smaller proportion of them who grow up welt-made and heallhy. ”

The pale, angular, flat-chested woman, so often to be seen in the drawing-rooms, are striking examples of merci-less application unrelieved by youthful sports, and this physical degeneracy hinders their welfare far morę than their many accomplishments aid it.

Men, as a rule, care little for erudition in woraen, but very much for physical beauty, good naturę, and sound sense.

Every one knows cases where bodily pcrfection, in the absence of all other recommendations, has incited a pas-sion that carried all before it, but scarcely any one can point to a case where intellectual acąuirements, apart from morał or physical attributes, have arouscd such feeling. The truth is that out of the many elements uniting in vari-ous proportions to produce in a man’s breast that complex emotion which we cali love, the strongest arc those pro-duced by physical attractions.

The oft-repeated question, “What can I do for my neck and chest; how can I fdl up the “hollows’ around my throat?” is one of prime iinportance. Before answering the ąuestion it may be well to preface the instruction with this advice. If you want a plump neck and well-developed bust, you will have to Work for them: you will have to per-sist day after day, for many weeks, in the exercises that will deyelop the conlr3ctile tissues in the parts affected. There is not a medicine madę that will strengthen and develop the muscles of the neck and chest; exercise alone will do this.