wing the girl's remeasurements and
progress in development. If each girl has her card it is a great
incentive to her to develop herself at odd times when she has a few
minutes to spare._
My Physical Development
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Fill in this page quarterly, the progress shown should be a useful
incentive.
Games to Develop Strength
Skipping, rowing, fencing, swimming, tennis, and handball are all
valuable aids to developing strength.
Use also:--
Staff exercises, to music if possible. Maze and spiral;
follow-my-leader, done at a jog-trot in the open air. A musical
accompaniment when possible. If done indoors, all the windows in the
room must be kept open top and bottom. Sing the tune.
FLAGS.--Choose sides; each player lays down a flag or a handkerchief at
her own goal, and each side tries to capture the flags of the other;
once she touches the opponent's flag she cannot be taken prisoner, but
goes back with the flag to her side.
Players can rescue a prisoner by touching her in prison. Players should
keep moving as much as possible all the time, and try to evade being
captured.
PRACTICE throwing at a mark. Put a pebble on the top of a staff and
stand at a certain line so many paces off.
Morris dances (old English country dances) and the folk-songs.
ENDURANCE IS USEFUL
Have you not often heard of accidents on the ice? In the winter of 1895
some schoolgirls were sliding on a frozen canal, when one girl twelve
years old ventured into the middle. Then there was an ominous cracking,
and in a moment she was struggling
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