The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-06-23
SatEllfgeufes.
COLD WATER,
Oae Secret of Health for Women Who
Take Exercise

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gymnasium. But they were.
II don't understand it at ALL re-
marked the tall, slender woman with
the pale cheeks and lips. after I
exercise in the gym or return from a
bicycle ride and take my warm bath |
almost collapse. My hands and feet
arc like ice the rest of the day, and |
feel as languid as a constitutionally
lazy person does in Spring"
1.-THE same here" responded the
stout woman. CHOW [ always take
my exercise in moderation. If I'm in
the gym I never work more than an
hour if 1 go bicycling I never ride
more than 10 miles and when I walk,
five miles is my limit. Idon't believe
in carrying anything to excess. For
my part / believe many a woman is in
sheol, if there is such a place, from
belonging to too many church socie-
ties, and attending service too fire.
quently. My doctor told me that if I
would only exercise in moderation and
take a warm bath afterward | would
feel exhilarated the balance of the
day and that I would have no more
ailments but somehow it hasn't
worked"
"And as for me-" said the third
woman. a brunette who would have
been pretty had it not been for her
deathlike pallor. II feel like the last
rose of summer about the time [ finish
my bath after exercising. It's the
most curious thing! I don't take a
plunge, either, but merely a hot sponge
bath
"No wonder you feel like a limp
%lunatic after exercising if you take a
hot bath afterward," said an elderly
man, joining the group. "Do you
mean to say, all of you women, that
you have no better sense than to take
a hot or a warm bath after violent ex-
ercise p
"Why, my doctor advised" began
the brunette.
Your doctor be dashed" inter-
rupted the man.
"And my doctor advised" broke
IN the other two, but the man inter.
rupted again:
"Your doctors be dashed, too, and
SO with all the rest who 60 around ad-
vising their women patients to take
warm or hot baths after exercising
moderately or VIOLENTLY
"Well, you surely would not advise
a cold shower" said my lady pale lips
with a shudder at the mere thought.
s'Tbat would be as much Of an *
IRENE as a hot BATH answered the
man. GIVE studied this question of
baths for athletes for many years, both
here and in other countries, and it is
astonishing how many physicians give
incorrect and harmful advice on this
subject"
II wouldn't give up my hot baths
for anybody" interrupted the tall wo-
man."
"Then you'll always have those pale
cheeks and lips that are the bane of
your life," insisted the man, "and
another thing, you'll never know the
real Joy of living physically. By that
J. mean you'll never have full, free
flow of rich blood distributed equally
throughout every part of your body.
Why? Well, to begin at the begin
If heat: in any form, is ap-
Piled to the spine it tends to arrest
circulation, and prostration in various
parts Of the body is sure to follow.
Did any of you women ever apply a
hot water bag between the should
ers ?",
ooh, yes," came emphatically from
the trio.
IT thought So" said the man with
a smile. 81 know that nearly every
one of your sex are slaves to the hot
water bag. Very well, if you've put
a hot water bag between your should
ers and kept it there for half an hour
you know now cold and clamy your
hands and feet grow"
"That's So" admitted the stout wo-
man candidly. "It may relieve the
sharp pain in the shoulders or back,
but the corpsc-like feeling of the feet
and hands that follows is almost as
disagreeable as the real pain"
"The direct injury" continued the
man, lis to the spinal nervous system.
When we talk about the backbone of a
country we mean that thing which
holds it up-which keeps it together.
So it is with the human body. The
backbone, the spine, with all it's won
derful machinery, is what keeps these
bodies of ours up. Heat applied to
the back stimulates the great sympa-
thetic nerve and this causes the vase
motors-the little terminal nerves sur
rounding the blood vessels ION
strict the blood's vessels and impede
circulation. You can readily see how
much freer circulation is after exercis-
ing, and so the checking Of it by a hot
bath causes a tremendous relaxation.
This is a simple statement Of the case.
The subject is too profound to 60 into
detail"
"What effect has cold on the
spine ?" asked the brunette.
"Cold on the spine," answered the
man, ~"causes an active circulation and
%invigerates me-. If you come in from
a bicycle ride and after cooling off,
will take a'large sponge dipped in cold
water and rub it vigorously up and
down the spine, instead Of retarding
circulation it will increase it. The
blood will go flying through those
blood vessels connected with the spine
and reach every part of your body.
An Englishman does not take his cold
tub every morning for the sake Of
being clean. He may wear the same
old flannel shirt every day, but he
takes that cold bath all the same be-
cause it is invigorating. One can take
a warm bath without injury and even
with benefit at times, provided the
spine is not immersed"
I'D like to know how on earth any
thing but an India rubber man or an
acrobatic woman would do that
broke in the stout woman.