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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
250
"It
is
often
the
custom
of
young
women
to
declare
that
they
cannot
walk,
sometimes
from
indolence,
no
doubt,
and
want
of
habit,
occasionally
from
real
inability.
But
if
we
investigate
the
causes
of
this
real
inability,
we
shall
often
find
it
to
proceed
from
an
improper
choice
of
time
in
taking
exercise,
or
from
a
defective
judgment
in
the
manner
of
taking
it.
Many
women
exhaust
and
fatigue
themselves
with
the
duties
of
their
house,
and
by
a
thousand
trying
occupations,
including
that
which
forms
a
serious
item
in
the
day's
work,
namely,
running
up
and
down
stairs,
and
then
discover
that
they
cannot
walk.
Others
go
to
extremes,
and
walk
for
a
certain
distance,
whether
they
feel
fatigued
or
not
by
such
exertions.
'It
is
only,'
observes
Dr.
Combe,
'by
a
diffusion
of
the
laws
of
exercise
as
a
part
of
useful
education,
that
individuals
can
be
enabled
to
avoid
such
mistakes,'
To
be
beneficial,
exercise
should
always
be
proportioned
to
the
strength
and
to
the
constitution
of
an
individual.
When
it
causes
extreme
fatigue
or
exhaustion,
it
is
hurtful;
it
ought
to
be
resumed
always
after
a
period
of
rest,
and
adopted
regularly,
not,
as
too
many
persons
are
in
the
habit
of
doing,
once
in
four
or
five
days.
The
average
walk
which
a
young
woman
in
good
health
and
in
ordinary
circumstances,
may
take,
without
undue
and
injurious
fatigue,
is
from
four
to
five
miles
a-day.
From
this
rule
I
except
the
very
young.
It
has
been
found
by
experience
that
until
twenty-two
or
three
the
strength
is
not
completely
matured.
The
rate
of
mortality,
as
it
has
been
proved
by
statistical
tables,
increases
in
all
classes
of
society
from
fourteen
until
the
age
of
twenty-three,
when
it
begins
to
decrease.
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