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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 -------+--------+--------+----------------+------+---------+--------- |Date. |Weight. |Height. |Chest Expanded. |Neck. |Forearm. |Biceps. | -------+--------+--------+----------------+------+---------+--------- | | | | | | | | -------+--------+--------+----------------+------+---------+--------- | | | | | | | | -------+--------+--------+----------------+------+---------+--------- | | | | | | | | -------+--------+--------+----------------+------+---------+--------- | | | | | | | | -------+--------+--------+----------------+------+---------+--------- | | | | | | | | -------+--------+--------+----------------+------+---------+--------- 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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