Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1890-02-15
HEAlfHIN CRASH TOWEL
HOW TO USE IT AND THE RESULTS
THAT MAY BE EXPECTED.

A reader OF The Sun, who signs the name
Of Gan Insurance Office Clerk, !" writes to ask
"what sort of device young man who can
afford but onen should buy ''to improve him
self in an athletic way" This is very inn
portant question, for the young man who
properly improves himself Gin an athletic
way" is likely to add twenty years to his life.
To select a single device by which young
man who must sit at desk all day may inn
prove himself in an athletic way it is neces-
sary to keep in mind the insidious foe of all
athletic exercises-laziness Once such a de-
vice as this is found and 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 reporter talked on
the subject If a 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 stoye, but
one can make a very good beginning with
two yard strip Of twenty-five cent stuff.
now TO USE IT.
To make this beginning, wait until ready
to go to bed. Having turned down the GOV.
ers and made everything ready, strip stark
naked. IN winter in a fireless 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
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 little more
time than it takes to tell how to do it the
young man will find his skin aglow and the
blood tinghng in his veins.
Do not at the first trial keep at it until
tired, but do not let hairs breadth of the
skin escape a 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 perspiring. This is a most
cheering discovery. Ever since the young
man was boy he has known that his skin
wes 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.
Sometimes these sewers are forced open by
doses of quinine and other medicines That
process is very like blowing open city's
sewers with dynamite--circumsta 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 he 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 gov into bed.
The active use of the towel made the lungs
pump the wind in and out brisllly. 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 the muscles of the
back and chest are squeezed and rolled about
and the blood pressed through them by the
motion; 50 they are strengthened.
In rubbing the limbs the young man had tx
stoop over and work himself M and down
like the handle Of farmhouse pump. If tha
did not exercise and strengthen the muscles
of the back and abdomen nothing viii
Further than that, when rubbing the feet ana
toes it was necessary to stand ON one foot
This did more han exercise the limbs lightly
1t gave the brain a mighty good lesson il
balancing, and the brain of young men wOrl.
ing in Offices cannot well be exercised vi
much in that way.
OTHER THINGS TO DO
In considering these matters the youn,
man has forgotten to worry about the eros
things the boss said during the day, and SC
no cares expressing him, he goes to sleep in
stead of tossing about. That, too, is delight
full and healthful In fact, wo find as W
follow the good influences resulting from tn
use of this plain device that one benefit leaG
to another and another, so that with sue
simple exercises as may be taken withor
any appliances the sallow, hollow chested
tagged out, dyspepticI specimen of humanit
becomes a living proof of the sound Of
adage that the glory Of man is his strength.
This start on the road to improving hin
self in an athletic way was or should be mac
at night, because the work Of the day HI
left the skin in such condition that the II.
of the towel is really luxury No matte
how lazy man Aay be, he is not likely
omit an opportunity TO use crash tow
thereafter How long did he work with j
Certainly two or three minutes, probab
FIVE s. six Some Sen would use it te
But the one feeling TO overcome when. begi
ming with TIE towel is impationce. Your
men are likely to be in too great hurl
to g8 strong. The man in a hurry 60
off half cooked. He does not accompli
anything,
When a man who has used a crash tow
wakes mp in the morning he may feel bett
than usual or he may not. The chances q
that no great Improvement viii be notice
That is no cause whatever for disappoir
ment Give the crash towel time To he
it, adopt the habit Of leaving the vindo'
open TO promote ventilation and add I
other haoit of wearing a nightcGp. Wi
the windows open a man is practically out
doors. Would no 80 out of doors without
hat! Scarcely.
When morning comes and the young m
must get M, he wishes he was rich so I'll
We wouldn't have to work. However, nee
must and cat be gets SGip, and for on
g. a towel bath. Wash the face with t
hn6s slasbiug the wator up about the e;