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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XXII, 30 May 1896, Page 625

A clever and enterprising woman has recently started an establishment for giving delicate girls and women—girls who have ‘ outgrown their strength ’ or have anrnmia, etc. —just the physical culture that they need to make of them strong and healthy women and useful members of society. Every woman can number amongst her circle of acquaintances victims of anenmia, debilitv, curvature of the spine, bad circulation, low vitality, nervous debility, etc., and it is for such as these, who are not by any means ‘ well,’ though not exactly ill, that Miss Rhoda Anstey has started her Hygienic Home in Somersetshire. Girls are received there for a three or six months’ course of training in physical culture, which includes, in addition to the Swedish exercises adapted to each special case, a course of practical study in hygiene, lectures on food, clothing, exercise, health and cookery; games, plenty of fresh air ami healthy exercise, and iu special cases, where necessary, massage is also employed, and for all this the charge is only two guineas a week for the course of three or six months.

After passing his State examination Bismarck was sworn in as an official law reporter, at one of the Berlin tribunals. ‘ Take care, sir,’ he once explained to an unwilling witness, ‘take care, or 11l have you kicked out.’ ‘Herr Auscultator,’ interposed the Judge, ‘ the kicking out is my business.’ ‘ Sir,’amended Bismarck, • take care then, or I’ll get the Judge to kick you out.’