Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-28
HEALTH In CRASH TOWEL
HOW TO USE 1T AND THE RESULTS
THAT MAY BE EXPECTED.

Better Buy Toweis-An Answer That
WIN Apply Generally.
A reader Of The Sun, who signs the name
Of "An Insurance Office Clerk, (" writes 10 ask,
afford but one" should buy ITO improve him
self I'm 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 inn
prove himself In an athletic way IL is neces-
sary 10 keep in mind the insidious foe OF all
athletic exercises-laziness. Once such 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. IL u 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, II bought at n trustworthy store, but
one can make a very good beginning with a
two yard strip OF twenty-five cent stuff
HOW TO UsK IT.
To make this beginning, wait until ready
20 40 10 bed Having turned down the COW
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 IL the window has been
open all day 10 purify the room. No matter,
His back will itch little, nevertheless Grab
the towel by the ends, throw IL over the back
and surge 1t to and fro Comforti Solid.
IL will make the back warm instantly. Keep
IL 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 IL. In little more
time than II takes TO tell how 70 do il the
young man will find his skin aglow and the
blood tingling 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. II is taken for
granted that every young man has a fresh
shirt 10 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
IL 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
was simply a 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 quinine and other medicines. That
process is very like blowing open city's
sewers with dynamite-circumstan may
arise to make il 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
Giles 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 aud out briskly. He has
begun 10 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 10 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; so they are strengthened.
In rubbing the limbs the young man had TO
stoop over and work himself 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 1t was necessary to stand on one foot.
This did more than exercise the limbs lightly.
IL gave the brain a mighty good lesson in
balancing, and the brain OF young men work
ing 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 during the day, and so,
no cares expressing him, he goes to sleep In
stead Of tossing about. That, too, is delight
full and healthful In fact, we find as we
follow the good influences resulting from the
use of this plain device that one benefit leads
TO another and another. so that with such
simple exercises rs may be taken without
any appliances the sallow, hollow chested
tagged out, dyspeptic specimen of humanity
becomes a living proof Of the sound old
adage that the glory of man is his strength.
This start ON the road 10 improving him.
nSh III hh hShtteiC way WIZ vi 5uDulu TDAQe
at night, because the work Of the day has
left the skin in such a condition that the use
Of the towel Is really n luxury. No matter
how lazy man may be, he Is not likely 70
omit an opportunity to use a crash towel
thereafter. How long did he work with it 4
Certainly two or three minutes, probably
five or six. Some men would use it ten
But the one feeling TO overcome when begin
ming with the towel is impatience Young
men are likely TO be in too great n hurry
10 get strong. The man In a hurry goes
of half cooked He does not accomplish
anything.
When a man who has used a crash towel
wakes up In the morning he may feel better
than usual or he may not. The chances are
that no great Improvement will be- noticed
That Is no cause whatever for disappoint-
ment. Give the crash towel time. To help
1t, adopt the habit of leaving the windows
open to promote ventilation and add the
other habit of wearing a nightcap. With
the windows open a man Is practically out of
doors. Would he go out of doors without a
HAITI Scarcely.
When morning comes and the young man
must get up, he wishes he was rich 60 that
he wouldn't have TO work However, needs
must and out he gets Strip, and for once
try a towel bath. Wash the face with the
hands, slashing the water up about the ears
and neck, and then plunge soft little towel,
the typical boarding house towel. into the
bowl, give 1t one good wiring, open it out and
rub Off all the stuff that oozed from the pores
the night before, after the crash towel opened
them. Shiverl Certainly. Whoop it UP
quickly but not hard, and thoroughly clean
the skin. Take dry towel and wipe the skin
of quickly, and then grasp the crash towel
as your best friend and rub as If your life de-
pended on it. Life does depend on it. If the
human machine is to last out its full lumber
ofyears. 1t must not be allowed to get clogged-
Now York Sun.