Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-02-04
SOUND AND SHAPELY.
ADVANCED GYMNASTICS FOR WON
ANS PHYSICAL CULTURE.

with the BODY. Systematic Improve
usut-.sicthods Employed by Teacher
OF New york; FashionAbles.
Physical culture for women Is beinr; ev-
Diluted from fad into n serious scicnto and
Is accepted by intelligent people as nue OF
the hygienio essentials Of existence undor
the exactions Of nineteenth century condi-
tons
The pioneer advocates Of physical culture
were pretty women who posed In Greek
gowns, with sandalcd feet and flletcd
tresses, az inspired apostles Of a new gospel
OF beauty and taught AZ eNorbitant rates
the charm OF woven paoos and waving
hands, to their exclusive and infatuated
followers. These willowy creatures, bend
ing, swaying. gliding from ono stauicsque
pose to another yet more classic, worked
entirely upon the vanity Of women. aud the
lame and halt, the corpulent and the scrag.
gy, swallowed the bale and believed they
had only to put on a Greek dress aud do so
many bends day TO become a. beautliulas
the dreams Praxiteles pcrpetuated In mar
BILE.
There was somcthiugrathetici In the faith
OF the woman OF 200 pounds ndvoirdupois
that inspired within her the horuism to
take, or try To take, the Mercury pose In
skirt 10 her knees and before "A roomiul Of
her kind. But when these mothers ia Israel
had bent and coutorted their stiflencd mem.
bers to the verge OF cramps and rhuuma.
tism, and still tho fairies gift OF beauty did
not crown their efforts, hut rather To her
that had too much ilcyh more was given,
and to her that had not was taken away
thnt she had. the enthusiasm died out, tho
homo praetitS was abandoned, the teacher,
who was u fad, Ike her art lost her pres.
tign, aud all was as before, save that tho
heart OF the woman had been awakened
to long for better things physically Many
OF these systema have arisen, had their
little day, aud talloninto decadonco because
OF their mtility Much amateur work Ia
still done by women endowed with fine
physical proportions and little hesldcs save
u few stock ideas and movements. To the
detriment Of the art and Of those who seek
to teach or study IL ntelliRrntly.
But IA spite Of It's false prophets and
tenchcu physical culture has been nd.
vanacd TO q llup mud accurate science, with
well established premises and proved prin,
ciplcs.
'Phc aim Of real physical culture, said
Miss Marguerite Lindley, the exponent of
the advanced art among the suciety leaders
OF the city, where every art socks now los
oppreciativo and generous patrons, us self
knowledge self preservation and self i'm.
proycmont The average woman however
well informed ON general subjects, is per.
feet stranger TO her own internal economy,
and the fundamental principle of physical
culture must be TO teach every woman
something Of her own structure md organ.
ism. Now, the absurdity of teaching "A
dozen women different conditions asset
or, as IL is Rmbtiously called systcm Of
movements which should benefit all alike,
the delicate. and tho strong, the stont, and
the thn-has been demonstrated ia the fail.
ure Of the System to accomplish its purpose.
| mako a diagnosis Of cuch individual who
| presents herself tome for lesHons--a dag
nO.ls Of all the organs, OF the inhcritauces
or environments that have u tendency TO
produce disease
Now, do not claim that this IL physl.
clans diagnosis, for have no DOCTORS dl-
| ploma, but have studied and Ieid much
with the doctors during the two years /
have spent In preparation for THIS work
| into which 20 many people tumble without
any preparation at all save little natural
! grace and n few Lessons from a teacher mn
/ ignorant as Themselves as To tho uudcry-
| Ing principles Of the science. have rs.
| tened to demonstration lectures la the dis,
Aeoting room, and have taken private and
| special instruction from physicians aud spe-
cialists hut la every chsu where find any
strongly defined symptoms OF disease or I'M
natural development | consult the pupils
| physiclHn before ! consider my diagnosis
complete All defects, dispropnrtionato
growth, uusymmetricnl measurements, arc
| Investigated Tor their causcs, aud then /
Hm ready 10 write out Prescription for
each pupil separately for the home eN-
ercises best calculated 20 correct the tend.
ency TO phyHical suffering, headaches, merry.
| BUSINESS aud all the ills to which American
women are peculiarly subject, and the spe-
clh defects from which each individual
| may sufier.
These exercises, which are arranged and
adapted from the Swedish System 90 tho
needs Of the delicate American wonnn who
cannot endure and Is only harmed by severe
exercise. differ from the ordinary oalisthen.
| les IN that they are slow aud reHistiye never
| icrky and violent American women do
not need my exercise 10 disturb tbs nerve
centers, but rather 10 quiet and strengthen.
| They differ from the DelsAre In that they
are enerRizing rather than disenerglzlng
They arc taken without apparatus. dor not
only IL apparatus quite unnecessary, as well
ns In many uases unavailable, but the timo
spent Ia learning TO uHr IL IA better en-
ployrd in studying the beautiful apparatus,
It's action, leverage and adjustment, that
each one has ia her own body. The use "
the muscles, their eloots upon the ciroula.
ton, heart action, the purpose Of theorgans
AL this isUf greater value than any mo
ohnnical cOntrivauoes for Development.
'As for the idea Of beauty, that follows
Of course because perfectly healthy, per
fecily symmetrical, well formed woman IL
bound 10 be more or less beautiful WON.
en- allow themselves 70 grow old and unat-
! traetiyo by tho constant expenditure Of
mental force without phyaioil resources 10
repair the loss
Probably the question most frequently
asked by women u this, Can you reduce
heshp Aud the answer Is decidedly Ia the
aiiirmatiyeif the heart nctlen Is good-ilrst,
by not allowing Aeah 70 deposit itselfin the
muscles by constantly using them, and,
secondly, by absorbing through exerclse
The supernuous lesh already deposited. -
New York Sun.
Ellen Terry's Methods.