Excerpt from Physical Development and Exercise for Women

The ideal of health is that happy condition of unconsciousness of the body which is only possible when every part of it is perfectly developed and equal to the performance of its function. The embodiment of this ideal is, unfortunately, not a common one; and we shall, perhaps, have to turn to that picture of noble young womanhood with which we please our imaginations to find the combination of flesh and spirit which satisfies our sense of physical perfection.

Wherever she is found, this creature of grace and vigour, of health and activity, she will always answer to the one great requirement of harmony of structure, not only in outline but in entity. Graceful she must be, but she will be also something better than this; hers are the curves that mark a well-knit frame, supple in joint and strong in limb.

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