Wichita eagle., 1890-01-29
AEALTHN A CRASH TOW FL
HOW TO USE 1T AND THE RESUlTE
THAT MAY BE EXPECTED.
If q Man Can Afford but One Device for >
Course of Athletic Training, he Had
Better Buy Towels-An Answer Tha:
VIII Apply Generally.

s'what sort of a device young man who cal
afford but one" should buy ito improve him
self in an athletic way" This is very i'm
portant question, for the 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 young
man who must sit at desk all day may i'm
prove himself in an athletic way it is neces-
sary to keep in mind the insidious foe of all
athletic Observation-Disclosures. Once such de
vice as this is found ard its use begun, the
work of Improvement is easily and comfort
ably continued.
Such device is found in the crash towel
This is the judgment of athletes, prize fighters
and physicians, to whom a reporter talked on
the subject. If young man can afford but
a 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 trustworthy store, bat
one can make a very good beginning with q
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 COW
ers and made everything ready strip stark
naked In winter in fireless boarding house
SILVER, particularly if the window has been
open ali day to purify the room. No matter.
His back will itch little, nevertheless. Grab
tine towel by the ends, throw 1t over the bach
and surge it to and fro. Comforts Solid.
| 1t will make the back warm instantly. Keep
! it a-going, first 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 a little more
time than it takes to tell how to do it the
young man will find his skin aglow and the
blood tinglng in his veins.
Do not at the first trial keep at it until
| tired but do not let hairs breadth of the
skin escape keen rubbing. Afterward,
when used to it, rub longer. Then jump 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 perspring. This is 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, and the pent up sewage Is flowing out.
! Sometimes these sewers are forced open by
/ doses of quiuine and other medicines That
process is very like blowing open a city's
sewers with Observation-Disclosures may
arise to make it necessary, but the crash
towel makes no singing in the ears.
After contentedly considering the benefits
! of getting this stuff out of the body, let the
! young man think over some other good
! things that be did while using the towel
| Very likely he will observe that certain mus
| cles 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 brislily. He has
begun to improve his wind already. His
arms are tired because in dragging the towel
to and fro he used certain muscles which he
had not used before to any extent, and the
new use of them necessarily develops them.
In rubbing the chest other muscles of The
arms were used, while tho muscles of the
back and chest are squeezed and rolled about
and the blood pressed through them by the
motion; so they are strengthened
stoop over and work hinasef up and down
! like the handle OF farmhouse pump. II that
did not exercise and strengthen the muscles
| of the back and abdomen, nothing will.
| Further than that. when 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, and the brain of young men work
ing in offices cannot well be exercised toe
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 during the day, and so
no cares expressing him, he goes to sleep in
stead of tossing about. That, too, is delight
full and heaitbfui. In fact, we find as we
follow the good Influences resulting from the
use Of this plain device that one benefit lead;
to another and another, SO that with such
simple exercises as may be taken without
any appliances the ssllow, hollow chested
tagged out, dyspeptic specimen of humanity
becomes a living proof of the sound ole
adage that the glory of man is his strength.
This start on the road TO improving him
self In an athletic way was or should be made
at night. because the work of the day ha.
Left the skin in such condition that the uss
of the towel is really a luxury. No matter
| how lazy a man may be, he Is not likely K
omit an opportunity TO Use crash towe
thereafter How long did he work with it
| Certainly two or three minutes, probably
| five or six. Some men would use 1t ten
But the one feeling 70 overcome when begin
ming with the towel is impatience. Young
| men are likely to be in too great h,lrr,
to get strong. The man IN hurry goe
off half cooked. He does not accomplish
anything.
When a man who has used crash towe
wakes UP in the morning he ruSy feel better
than usual or he may not. The chances ar
that no great Improvement will be noticed
| That is no cause whatever for Gisappoint
| u,snt Give the crash towel time. TO heiE
it. adopt the habit OF leaving the window
| open 10 promote ventilation and add tn,
| other habit of wearing u nightcap Wit!
the windows open man Is practically out o
doors Would he 60 out of doors without S
hatf Scarcely.
When morning comes and the young MAJ
must get up, ne wishes he was rich 50 tina
he wouldn't have to woqal However, need
must and out he gets Strip, and for ono
try a towel bath. Wash the face with tht
hands, slaShing the water up ABOUT the ear
and neck. ari then plunge a soft little towel
the typical boarding house towel, INTO th
bowl. give it one good wiring. open IL out am
rub Off all the stuff tnat oozed from the pore
the night before. after the crash towel openss
them. Shiveri Certainly. Whoop IL Vi
quickly but rot lard, ana thoroughly clear
the skin Take a-y towel and wipe the ski
off quickly, and then grasp the CRASH towe
as your best friend ana rub as if Your life de
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