St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-22
Health in a Crash Towel.
HOW TO USE 1T AND THE RESULTS THAT
MAY BE EXPECTED.


ask "what sort of device young man
who can afford but one" should buy ito
improve himself in an athletic way. This
is very important question, for young
man who properly improves himself IN
an athletic way" is likely to add twenty
years to his life.
To select single device by which a
Young man who must sit at desk all day
NAV improve himself in an athletic way,
1t is necessary to keep in mind the insidl-
GUS foe of all athletic eXercises-lazness.
Once such device as this is found and its
use begun, the work of improvement is
easily and comfortably continued.
Such q device is found in the crash
towel This is the judgment Of athletes,
prize fighters and physicians, TO whom
reporter talked on the subject Ii young
man can afford but small sum OF money
for the purchase of an athletic outfit, let
him buy crash towels.
The expensive towels are really worth
the cost, if bought at a trustworthy store,
but one can make a very good beginning
with two yard strip of twenty five cent
stuff.
HOW TO USE 1T.
To make this beginning, wait until
ready to go to bed. Having turned down
the covers and made everything ready, |
strip stark naked. In winter in tlreless
boarding house bedroom the air will make
the young man SILVER, particularly if the
window has been open all day to purify
the room. No matter. His back will itch
little, nevertheless. Grab the towel by
the ends, throw it over the back and surge
it to and fro. Comfort! Solid. 1t will
make the back warm instantly. Keep 1t
a-going, fir: over one shoulder and then
the other, and then rub the arms to the
finger tips with equal speed. Then attack
the legs and hump yourself over It, In
little more time than it takes to tell how
to do it, the young man will ind his SKIN
aglow and the blood tingling in his veins.
| Do not at the first trial keep at il until
tired, but do not let hairs breadth or
the skin escape keen rubbing. After
ward, when used to it, rub longer. Then
lump into the night shirt and into bed. 1t
is taken for granted that every young man
has fresh shirt to sleep in at night. No
man who sleeps in the clothes he has worn
all day can live out his natural time.
| In about two minutes after getting into
bed it will be observed that every square
inch of the body has become moist, that
the towel has set every pore perspirlng
| This is a most cheering discovery. Ever
since the young man was boy he has
known that his skin was simply net, it
was full of holes, and that these holes
were the mouths of tiny sewers, The
dams in the mouths of these sewers have
been torn away by the crash towel, ana
the pent up sewage is flowing out. Some
times these sewers are forced open By
doses of quinine and other medicines.
That process is very like blowing open
city 'sse sers with dynamite-circumstanc
may arise to make it necessary, but the
crash towel makes no singing in the ears.
After contertedly considering the bene-
fits of getting this stuff out of the body,
let the young man think over some other
good things that he did while using the
| towel. Very likely he will observe that
certain muscles of the arms are tired, and
that he was breathing Justify when he first
got into bed. The active use of the towel
made the lungs pump the wind in and out
wind already. His arms are tired because
in dragging the towel to and fro he used
certain muscles which he had not used be-
fore to any extent, and the new use of
them necessarily develops them. In rub
bling the chest other muscles of the arms
were used, while the muscles of the back
and chest were squeezed and rolled about
and the blood pressed through them by
the motion so they are strengthened.
In rubbing the limbs the young man
had to stoop over aud work himself up aud
down like the handle of farmhouse
pump. If that did not exercise and
strengthen the muscles of the back and
abdomen, nothing will. Further than
that, W b. n rubbing the feet and toes it
| was necessary to stand on>one foot. This
did more than exercise the limbs lightly.
1t gave the brain mighty good lesson in
balancing, AID the brain of young men
working in offices cannot well be exercised
too much in that way.
OTHER THINGS TO DO.
In considering these matters the young
man has forgotten to worry about the cross
things the boss said d .ring the day. and
so, no cares depressing him, he goes to
sleep instead of tossing about. That, too,
is delightful and healthful. In fact, we
find as we follow the good influence result
ing from the use of this plain device that
, one benefit leads to another and another.
, so that with such simple exercises as may
be taken without any appliances the sal
low, hollow chested, tagged out, dyspep-
tic specimen of humanity becomes living
proof of the sound old adage that the glory
of man is his strength.
This start on the road toimproving him
self in an athletic way was or should be
made at night because the work of the day
has left the skin in such condition that
t the use of the towel is really a luxury. Nc
/ matter how lazy a man may be, he is moi
, likely to omit an opportunity to use s
! crash towel thereafter. How long did hs
) work with it7 Certainly two or three
! minutes, probably five or si9. Some mer
: would use it ten. But the one feeling te
overcome when beginning with the towe
is impatiences. Young men are likely te
be in too great hurry to get strong The
man in q hurry goes off half cooked. HI
5 does not accomplish anything.
q When man who has used crash toye
wakes up in the morning he may feel bet.
ter than usual or he may not. The chance:
5 are that no great improvement willsbe no.
ticed That is no cause Whatever for dis.
, appointment. Give the crash towel time
To help it, adopt the habit of leaeing thu
9 windows open to promote ventilation ant
s add the other habit of wearing nightcap
q With the windows open man is practic
. ally out of doors. Would he go out O
8 doors without hat Scarcely.
When morning comes and the young
man must get up, ne wishes ne was rlci
so that he wouldn't have to work. How
ever needs must and out he gets. Strip
and for once try towel bath. Wash thu
face with the hands, slashing the water vi
about the ears and neck, and then plung'
: soft little towel, the typical boarding
:, house towel, into the bowl, give it on
: good wiring, open it out and rub off all tn
5 stuff that oozad from the pores the nigh
q / before, after the crash towel opened them
d Shiver? Certainly. Whoep it up quickl..
: but not hard, and thoroughly clean tn
}, skin Take dry towel and wipe the ski
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