The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-02
BOWSER'S BALLOON.
He Toys With It in Order to Save
His Life
An EXERCISE NOT SO SATISFACTORY

8OWSer.
Now what are you going to do?"
querled Mrs. Bowser as dinner was fin
ished the other evening and Mr.. Bow
ser removed coat, vest, collar and neck
tie.
MRS. Bowser,'' he solemnly replied
as he returned from the front hall with
pasteboard box in his hand, cts no
wonder that medicine doesn't do us any
good! The wonder is that we are not in
our grayesv'
'fBut we are not ai1ing. We don't
need medicinel''
''We don't, Ell? haven't said any
thing to you about it because I didn't
want to hasten the climax by soaring
you half to death, but as a matter of
fact the pair of US have been heading for
the tomb at a gallop for the last six
months I wouldn't say anything about
it now only think 1 have found the
remedy
Remedy Why, thought both of as
were in perfect health p
''What you thought and what was and
is are three different things, Mrs. Bow
ser. Here is what the doctor recon-
mended for both of us. -
IA toy balloonl Are we to eat it,
smell Of it, or what?'
"No, ma am, we are not to eat of it,
smell of it or what If you had done
less gadding and more reading, you
might have heard Of the Delsarte move
ment. You might have heard that this
little balloon has been the means of
drawing thousands of people back from
the yawning grave. -
"Oh, yes; you let it float around the
room and follow it up and strike it!
was reading in the paper the other day
about how many people had broken
their arms and legs and necks. You
think you need the Delsarte movement,
do you?'
81 don't think anything about it, but
| know itr' hotly exclaimed Mr.. Bowser
as he rolled up his shirt sleeves. eff
you want to sit around and die for the
want of a little common sense exercise,
all right, but 1 propose to regain my
lost health and live on as long as can.
The Delsarte movement is the simplest
and most beneficial of all athletics I
permit the balloon to float away-like
that. Then step forward and strike it
like this. -
"Mercy on me, but you'll knock the
whole house DOWN. exclaimed Mrs.
Bowser as the chandelier ratified and
vase toppled off bracket. ''Let me get
out with the baby If some one should
tell you to come home and play ball
with dynamite bombs. suppose you'd
do it! The idea of any such nonsense
benefting your health 70
Nonsense, ehf'' shouted Mr.. Bowser
as he jumped forward and led with his
left and kicked a chair over. ''That
shows how much you know about
anatomy! In delivering an upper cut
like this, you bring into play the mus
cles of the neck, shoulder arm and leg.
The blood ALSO
But Mrs. Bowser and the baby had
retreated to the library.
"Egad, but if she wants to die let
her diel'' growled Mr.. Bowser as ne
dropped his suspenders off his shoulders
to give his arms more play. Anybody
with the sense of a canary knows that
/ you must have exercise to keep your
health. Here am in the prime of life,
and yet I'm lop shouldered, humpbacled
and as weak as a.
He had been following the balloon
about and punching at it. A right hand
swing missed the floating object and
/ brought down a glass globe from the
chandelier.
''What OH earth has happened now?'
/ exclaimed Mrs Bowser as she stuck her
head out of the door,
"Nothingl When I want you. I'll
! knock On the door. -
Mrs. Bowser retreated, and he gath
cred up tho fragments Of the broker
/ globe and deposited them on a chair,
( and squared off to his work again, say
ing:
II dunno who old Delsarte was, brs
/ he was corlzer on exercise. Couldn's
have started a movement better calcu-
lated to bring out all the''-
He simply knocked over a rocking
chair and brought down stand as he
made a vigorous spring. but Mrs. Bow
ser's head appeared to view again, and
she demanded:
Are you going to wreck the whole
house. Mr.. Bowser?"
"Who's wrecking anything? think
I've a right to move about in my own
house in search of health. 90 back and
sit down and wait for consumption and
the gravel
Young Bowser began bowling, and
his mother with drew to quiet him Mr..
Bowser lifted up the stand and chair
and wiped the perspiration from his
forehead and got ready for more health.
He felt that he ought to have little
more leg exercise with it, and he blew
the balloon away from him and then
rushed for it His legs were doing nobly
when his toe struck hassock and be
took header. What occurred during
the next Is minutes will never be clear
to him. He knew his head struck the
library door and busted a panel, but
after that all was blank. When he open
ed his eyes. there was a wet towel on
his forehead, camphor bottle at his
nose, and three or four Of the neighbors
were in the house. In a faraway voice
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