MORNING EXERCISES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 11, 13 January 1934, Page 12

MORNING EXERCISES.

PERFORMED AT NIGHT.

Morning exercises seem to be called "morning" because that is the time when they are usually not done. Unless one is superhuman and unless one has strength of mind enough to get up in more than ample time, the morning exercises merely become a series of gestures, which even their practiser soon recognises to be entirely useless. There seems, indeed, to be no time for doing morning exercises. Later in the morning one is dressed too much to do them. Jn the afternoon nobody thinks of doing them. Before dinner might bo a good time if other people were not wanting to get into the bathroom or if one were not already exhausted by a strenuous clay.

At night before getting into lied the morning exerciser sometimes achieves a little. She thinks of her waist, of the back of her neck; she wonders whether her arms are as thin as.they were, In any case, other people are doing morning exercises. Thus goaded and beaten into action, she counts six times or twelve times, as the case may be, she rises slowly upon her shoulders and pedals rather hopelessly into tlie air; she lies on her back and concentrates on that crease round the waist", and she may even do honey-pots sideways as well as backwards and forwards. But as for morning exercises—there may be strong-minded people who really occupy the half-hour before breakfast with regular exertion. One does not often meet them, nor do most people give the least impression that they have been able £o carry on the process for more than the first few days.