To my girls I dedicate this volume in the school at Lexington they taught me how pure and noble life may become. Will they listen to another of my "Talks about Health?" The Author

Contents
Introduction, Girls Boots and Shoes, How Girls Should Walk, The Language of Dress, Description of Dress, Outrages upon the Body, Woman Tortures Her Body, Stocking Supporters, Large vs. Small Women, Idleness among Girls, Idleness Is Fashionable, Work Is for the Poor, Employments for Women, False Tests of Gentility, A Short Sermon about Matrimony, Piano Music, Study of French, Dancing, The Theatre, Sympathy between the Stomach and the Soul (Bowels of Compassion--Waists of Jolly Grandmothers), About the Treatment of Disease, Sunshine and Health, A Word about Baths, Home Gymnasium, What You Should Eat, What You Should Drink, Additional Health Thoughts, Amusements for Girls, True Education for Girls, Heroic Women

Indeed, for some purpose, which I am sure no man can explain, shoemakers are quite in the habit of taking the size and shape of the foot. I am sure I never saw any evidence that they paid the slightest attention to it in making the shoes.

She was not a handsome girl. Her dress was of the plainest calico...nevertheless, she was one of our staple attractions...It was only the book-binding girl that drew us to the window. One of our fellows would cry out, "Here she goes. Come quick, John; quck, Henry..." She walked well! Ah! I can see her now! What a queen! Queenly, we exclaim, with reference to a certain manner of walking...a grand, elastic style.

(A Short Sermon about Matrimony)
Men will shut their ears if they have a spark of delicacy, for every word of this is private and confidential.

The round dances were not admitted, for the following reasons:--
1st. The rotary motion is injurious to the brain and spinal marrow.
2nd. The peculiar contact between the man and the woman, may suggest impure thoughts.
I have many times asked young men what they thought of it, and after saying it was jolly, that they liked it first-rate, they have generally...confessed they, knowing how men feel and sometimes talk about it, if they were women, they should not indulge.
Apparently he meant ballroom dancing as opposed to square or contra dancing.

Who ever saw a happy, helpful grandmother with an hour-glass waist. Is a grandmother full of tickle? Can she join with the young people in laughter and sports? Can she? Then I know, without seeing her, the style of her form.

RECREATION vs PROPRIETY. The noblest women I have personally known, were "regular tom-boys" in their girlhood. I have made many inquiries about the women who figured conspicuously in the "Sanitary Commission," the "Christian Commission," and in the hospitals, and so far as I have been able to learn form their friends, not one began with being a "proper" young lady! ...In brief, I don't believe proper young ladies amount to much.

Dr. Dio Lewis's Training School for Teachers of New Gymnastics". The twelvth session of Dr. Lewis's "NORMAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION" will be held in Boston in the summer of 1871....A series of lectures upon Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, and course of training in Elocution.