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210 they aspire to the profession of prize-fighters, and take no account of such trifles as broken arms and legs, injured spines, and the chance of sudden death from a blow on the head or a kick in the stomach.

LAWN-TENNIS is perhaps the best game for girls, but the left arm should be exercised in it as well as the right. This requires some practice; but it is quite possible to play equally well with both arms. For this and other games which require the player to run easily, divided skirts are very comfortable. Provided the sleeves are made as I have described (page 190) so as to allow free movements of the arms, no special dress is required for this game; but jerseys are very comfortable to play in, and on the whole the prettiest tennis-dresses are those made of white flannel with loose sailor bodices, or like those shown in Figs. 15 and 17 in the illustration on page 185. The expanding dress described on page 188 is the best dress for lawn-tennis of which I know. It is charming in white cashmere or flannel.

CRICKET is also a very good game for girls, and the same remarks as to dress apply to this as to lawn-tennis. It is necessary, however, that girls who play cricket should have a protective pad to be worn over their bosoms, in order to prevent any harm which might possibly arise from a chance blow from a cricket-ball. A loose, well-wadded pad can be placed between the dress-body and the underclothes; it may be kept in place by two bands on either side, one passing above and one beneath each arm, and fastening at the back. This plan will, I think, be