The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-30

complexion, and just the faintest trace of
an English accent He is making some
thing of e stir in the athletic world and
among the schools of hygienic culture be-
cause his methods are dlametricallY opposed
to most of those in vogue. He doesn't be-
lieve in tangling ones self up in the coils OF
a health lift and has q supreme contempt
for figing rings.
The essence of his system is that the
ordinary movements of everyday life,
breathing, walking, STOPPING, ETC., can be
made to develop the body perfectly in the
routine course of daily activity.
Young women who have been in the habit
of spending Lent in diligent practice at the
gymnasiums are experimenting this year,
by wayof novelty, in physical culture with
out machinery, under his directions. Will
lam Blaikie, who wrote "How to Get
Strong,n SAYS that the new system begins
where he left off and will have an army of
followers. AT present, at least, Checkley is
much in vogue. D'Alvini taught hial dane
ing. the Hanlon brothers taught him tum-
bling, and he is an all-round athlete of ex-
traordiEary ability. Prof Buchanan of
Boston calls him the pioneer OF practical
hygiene.
There are no incipient amazons among
New York or Brooklyn maldens. Lead MT.
Checkley on in the heat of discussion aad he
will maintain that the very sottness OF
womans muscular tissue is the reason OF all
reasons why her muscles should be useful.
The value of a muscle, he says, is It's con-
tractile power Ii It's sum ana Eafu 10
won't contract SO far. The harder 1T gets
the more the circulation is impeded, which
is one main reason why 80 many PROBES
sional athletes 60 10 pieces. Hls own Dig
arm is as soft as girls. But when from
theories of woman's physical posslDlHtles ne
passes to the question of her p. actlcal tram
ing he says no one can accomplish nluch
for the develop rent of strength, grace or
the higher health III women until sople-
thing is done toward improving her
clothing.
So much has been said and written or
dress reform that it requires no little tenler-
ity to touch the subject again, but Mr.
Chez leyis ideas have at least the merits OF
moderation and novelty. He is inclinei to
nooh-pooh the idea that the modern woman
often draws her corset laces 50 tgntly as 10
COMPRESS the waist or lnJure tne vital
rrraos To the corset ne comedies G posi-
rive benefit-iu has forced women to breathe
from the upper chest, when IS decldealV
better than abdominal breathing. But on
the other hand it antagonlzss the IFst prln-
cipal of physical development; the
nerfect muscular possession OF Tue
hodv Il destroys the suppeness and
grace Of the figure, interferes with STOPPING
and tnrniug. Ii impedes the circulation and
~ mia wnv tends not infrequentlg to gross
rs giving a woman whose chest q ID
s sIe are those Of delicate girl OF 20
Inc large, heavy, swollen lower Limbs that
s st4o % with 200 pouads. The slender
,yoynan usually leans forward on her corset,
laaaing a snaee between 1t aud her BAGS,
1bns letting her head forward and spelling
,he carrlage IL the waole upper part q
lie bsdy. Tbs heshy wonAa oilea
owea her distended abdomen directly y tae
49, 49,. ~ 80 ~ refusing t9 develop Der
49,, ,,.Sseles makes her bust hapby. snn-
Ls,, ana unhealthy. aud tempts greater
aud greater increase u Tat 49,.
sHow would you bring up sglfliF