The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-14
FEMININE BREATHING.
Extract from a Lecture by Dr.. }. b.
Kellogg of Battle Greek
Sanitarium.

natural breathing of the Indians
among the Yumas and other tribes,
also Chinese women, and the peasant
women of Germany, France and Ire
land. The observer is confronted
with many difficulties, for although
ordinary breathing is carried on auto
maticalIy. Immediately when you tell
a person to breathe naturally he be-
gins to breathe u~nnaturally. The pro-
cess is in a degree under the control OF
the will, although ordinarily without
yolition, but in taking thought IL
ceases to be automatic. Children are
the best subjects in which to observe
natural breathing. l found that
women who wore their clothing per-
fectly loose, without the slightest con-
striction about the waist, invariably
breathed just like men, and yet the
cultivated, civilized IL thinks
that it would be "horrid" to reath
as a man breathes. As an expert
ment. [ put a man into corsets, ano
found that he breathed just like a
corseted woman.
During NV investigation I asked a
Chinese doctor if the Chinese man ana
woman breathed alike. He thoughta
minute and said:-"No, when the
Chinese man breathes, the air comes
in at his mouth, goes down to his
stomach, then to his lungs, n Is
breathed out. With the Chinese
woman, the air goes down one side
the backbone, then up the other side,
then into her stomach and down into
her lungs and then is breathed out.
But he gave me no reason Tor this
difference. BY means of a sphyg-
mooraph I was able to take accurate
tracings of the breathing OF a large
number of these Chinese and savage
M [ compared them with h
tracings of civilized men and found
that they were alike, while the civil
lied woman breathes in precisely n
opposite way. l found one Indian
girl who breathed just like a civilized
woman, and the case perplexed Inc at
first. but upon investigation found
that she was SO anxious to De CIVIL
lied that she had hunted up an Ole
corset and squeezed herself into 1T. L
also made tracings of a large number
OF lower animals, male and female
and found that they breathed pre-
cisely alike.
1t is a we'll understood fact that
women do not breathe enough, ana II
one faints away in q church the first
thing to be done is to loosen her
clothing. In true, natural breathing
the whole lung capacity is filled, and
in lust the same way that a bottle is
flied. First the sides are drawn out
by means of vigorous action OF h
d5anhragm. and then the abdomen
swells out in front, and lastly with a
little effort the chest stretches and a
little more air is taken into the upper
part of the lungs. If nj would study
natural breathing let him observe a
little child asleep, and he will see that
there is a Slight swelling OF the whole
front of the body.-Reported 6y Helen
L. Manning.
Ex.PresIdent Grew.
I never saw anyone who filled a sta
ton of dizzy height with a more level
head or a more charming graciousness
of manner than the late ex-President.
His department at great receptions
was ideal, says a writer in the London
Truth. The broad red ribbon of the
Legion OF Honor athwart of his waist
coat appeared to stimulate him. One
could take small liberties with him.
I'M. lie President, I'm dying to have a
good close view of Queen Isabella,
who is now surrounded by the diplo-
matte circle. How can | manage lt?'
said a lady journalist one evening to
him. "I'll manage it, was the an
swer. "Go into the greenhouse and
wait there"
NJ. Grevy a little later took her Ma
iesty round the ground floor rooms
She had on q lace dress, and he con-
trived that it should, through no fault
OF his, get caught in a thorny plant.
The lady journalist was asked to dis
entangle the flimsy garment and to
pin up a rent. This done, the much
obliged Queen, to whom M. Grevy
presented her, returned thanks, and
the whole thing passed Oft like a nat.
tural accident. M. Grevy's eyes
twinkled, and as good as said
''There now! Am | not a sly old fell
low, and deserving of your best
thanksY"
Isabelle was his client from 1869 to
1879. He had brought her husband
TO separate quietly from her, ano
rendered her any number of services
as a counsellor and friend. She usec
to go and dine with Nine. Grevy, anc
insisted on obtaining for him the
knighthood of the Order of the Colder
Fleece.
Embraced His Opportunity.
The sublime strains of the WED
ding March," played or the magnifi-
cent organ by the eminent musician
as it never had been played before
within those walls, pealed through
the church.
Slowly down the aisles came the
wedding party, Slowly and in per
feet form the principals and theiI
friends and attendants ranged them
solved in front OF the altar and stoot
waiting.
The music ceased, and a solemn
hush fell upon the assembly.
Arrayed in bridal robes whose cost,
elegance and faultless taste Nigh
ftly environ but could not add to tn,
charms of her lovely face and form
stood the trusting girl who was abou
to give her happiness into the hand
of another.
Proud and happy, with conscious
strength and manly tenderness visible
in every feature of his handsome face
aud in every line of his symmetrical
we'll knit frame, stood the exnltan
young man who had chosen her from
ali the world as his hearts mate.
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