The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
MASSAGE TEiE HOPE OF THE STOUT.
Muscle Roller That Performs Wonders in Reducing Fat and
COunteracting the Tendency to Obesity.

the sinews that exercise is difficult and
exhausting. 1t is all very well to tell a
large woman to bend over and toucn
her toes one hundred times every day,
to lie on her back and kick her heels in
the air, but in her valiant efforts to DO
it she is most likely to strain her feeble
muscles and so exhaust and deplete ner
strength on the first few trials that only
an iron resolution can carry her through.
A NEW KINK OF MASSAGE.
After all has been done and said, there
Is only one way OF overcoming this De
generation into fat, and that is by mas
sage. With Swedish rubber, who
scientifically understands her profession
fat can be diSsipated. But q scientific
Swedish masseuse is q luxury only the
wealthy can. enjoy, so the refuge for
ninety and nine women, who hitherto
have borne their fat as best they might,
is to buy a little appliance called mas
sage roller and go at the business of fat
reduction themselves. a massage roller Is
very innocent-looking utensil for the
great work it performs of bringing hgureS
into bounds. 1t consists of four solid
wooden wheels. about as big as Mexican
dollars. revolving on small wooden bar.
BY a handle fastened to a tight frame the
wheels are pushed about on the principle
of a lawn roller over the grass, and every
one of the wheels is bound with a rubber
band
Applied in the right spirit. this little
invention, that will fit into a skirt pocket,
will developed the virtues of dumb-bells
Indian clubs and bicycle rolled into one
chiefly because it acts with rapidity and
invariable efficacy and no particular eff
fort or will strength is required to keep
it in operation. The object of it's use IS
to secure exactly the same effect on the
fatty tissues and the muscles as the hands
of the skilled masseuse. with the blessed
difference that no particular skill is nee
essary in it's employment and on expert
menting with it the general effect will be
AS a rule with women, tat grows here
found superior to the labor of the human
hand.
and there over the body without refer
ence to symmetry or comfort. 1t collects
on the hips shoulders, upper arm or bust,
about the abdomen, chin and often eitehr
above or below the knee. A fat woman is
bound in the course of time to grow
round-shouldered, the whole abdomen pro-
trudes, the chin hangs like folds of cur
tain on the chest. This is of, of course.
due first to the weight of fat and again to
the fact that the fat cells enter and weak
en- the muscles.
HOW TO USE 1T.
Armed with a muscle roller the indi-
! dividual cursed with flesh will in the
| morning after her bath, slip into her wool
or cotton underclothing and roller in hand
attack her enemy. Back and forth over
the hips, up and down she will run he1
| roller. This she can do till the hips CRY
| out for mercy, for at preliminary use OF
| the roller it will seem to bruiSe the flesh
and excite the languid muscles like frs
/ game OIL SOlI or q long QOISeDdCh rue
| Next she can attack her upper arms, run
ming the roller from elbow to shoulder
! and never across the muscles, for the ad-
| vantages of the roller is that it increases
the circulation excftes the muscles tC
effort and brings a hard. even pressure
on the deep tissues and not merely on the
surface of the skin. AS a matter of fac
the rubber wheels excite no surface
friction at all; roll them up the arm anC
| easily as you do it you will feel then
down to your very bones while the Skin
itself is scarcely disturbed
Herein lies the prime virtue of this tool
! If you ask a masseuse to treat you 70
flesh, she will try and dissipate the ia
cells by kneading and pounding. Sh
must exert her efforts to get beneath tn
| skin, and that is what the roller does al
the time. 1t goes right at the muscles
and sends the fat cells flying. They can
not form, neither can they exist under tn
rotation of those rubber-tired wheels.
If woman proposes to use the roller t.
best effect she should buy and hang UP il
her room diagram of the direction of al
the muscles in her body, and Whateve
point in her frame she proposes to re
duce, it is wisest always to learn tn
| course of the muscles there. rolling then
as they run. To knit UP the muscles O
her abdomen she will treat herself up an
down each side Of it, and night and morn