The reformer Dio Lewis on the health and strength of young women. He argues, boldly for his day, that girls need fresh air, exercise, sensible dress, and real vigor, not fragility and confinement. Warm and campaigning, it champions a robust, healthy womanhood. A spirited period classic that reads as a heartening early stand for girls' physical wellbeing, from a doctor who spent his life urging Americans to move and breathe.