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- Title: Lawn Tennis for Ladies
- Author : Mrs. Lambert Chambers
- Release Date : January 01, 1960
- Genre: Racket Sports,Books,Sports & Outdoors,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 990 KB
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I hope and believe there are comparatively few people who will deny that athletics have done much for the health and mind of the modern girl. Exercise in some form or other is essential, and although I am quite ready to admit that games of the strenuous type, such as hockey and lawn tennis, can be and sometimes are overdone, yet the girl of to-day, who enters into and enjoys her game with scarcely less zest than her brother, is, I am convinced, better in health and happier in herself than the girl of the past generation. What are the objections to games for girls? It seems to me the chief arguments against them are that they are injurious to health; that they impair the womanliness of woman; that they mar her appearance. There may be something to be said for these contentions, but to my mind the pros materially outweigh the cons. As to the injury to health, I deny that the case is proved. Indeed, evidence is rarely forthcoming. A delicate girl would probably become more delicate if she did not play games in moderation and take exercise. A friend of mine, an old doctor, told me the other day that in his youth the great plague of his life was the hysterical female. She would put in an appearance obtrusively at critical moments, and the anticipation of a scene always shadowed his arrangements.