WOMEN'S REALM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 163, 10 July 1907, Page 8

WOMEN'S REALM.

GAMES AND BEAUTY. r

\ The modern idea is a quest for health, I think, rather than beauty, thougbl am ready to confess that health L, , beauty, and that there is no beauty with , out health. Therefore, perhaps, I ___•" • better say grace in place of beauty _. - regard to it taking the second place with _ health in the chief place. Because _. t course, you may be healthy, q _i_. 5 healthy, and yet not be graceful • *«_?■" ; indeed, the way of athletics and .»___ _ by which many in these days seek health 5 is hardly the path of grace. We have only to look at the champions of our- «er who have made their mark in any E amt to prove this. Hard they are and • healthy, but there is too much muscla. - for grace, and the line of strict beantv . has given place to something more ser • viceable. I think the truth of the __._ > ter is that a moderate amount of nfo ' sieal culture is good for a woman's an! , pearance. but that any exercise or m_n_ - which exceeds this is not good looks in a woman. The ancient ; Greek women played games, but it\___- . the gentle one of ball, in which thp ■'___! footed excelled. It was not a hardg__. such as we play, but one which, tl____ we would disdain it as childish." __t held in it the foundation of their supple, ness and grace. Agility rather-than muscle, suppleness rather than hardness, is what is needed for grace. Health too, requires a certain moderation ""in games and physical culture, which' some ' missing have regretted long and deeply in fact, moderation should govern our sex in all- things.