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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS

Note: The best time to take these exercises is before dressing in the morning or the last thing at night before going to bed. Corsets should never be worn during exercises where the arms are raised above the height of the shoulders. No matter how loose they may be, it causes actual injury. Keep watch and see that the feet remain parallel. The tendency with most people is for them to turn out.

A New England farmer's wife was baking several kinds of pies for Thanksgiving. To distinguish them she marked some T. M. for "'tis mince" and the rest she marked T. M. for "'tain't mince." When you are reading this book you will now and then see two mysterious letters which you will promptly obey whether you are sitting or standing. They are the letters S. T. and they mean Sit Tall and Stand Tall.

Horseshoe Formation