Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-07
NATURES DOCTOR FOR WOMEN.
Beauty to BE Had by Exercise of
Lungs and Muscles.

Beauty to BE Had by Exercise of
Lungs and Muscles.
| Eugene Sandow, In the London Mail.
| Beauty is not merely skin deep: 1t goes
| down through pure. clear skin to firm
| rounded tissue and small clean-cut and
| compact bone. showing not only absolute
| health of structure, but that this structure
| is descended from ancestral structures SIM
| ilarly perfect. The grace of movement at
| tanned by exercise is explained by the fact
| that the essence of a graceful act lies In
| It's being performed with ease, rhythm and
precision.
No nation ever paid so much attention to
exercise as did the Greeks, and this ac-
counts for the supreme beauty of the Gre
| clan figure. In Greece the maidens and wo-
| men had their exercises as well the men,
| and it will be remembered that Plato, in
| his Republic" recommends that this ex-
| ercise should be public, so that women
would be taught to strive after bodily per-
lection by what is a strong motive in either
men or women-viz., vanity.
The game of ball, which I consider to be
the most perfect of natural exercises as
contrasted with systematic exercise, was
played by the Grecian maidens, and Is Of
| ten described by Homer.
1t cannot be too clearly understood that
| our highly specialized civilization produces
separate specialized development of GER
tain parts In certain professions and occu-
pations; indeed, every occupation may be
said to have its own deformity, and the
famous DR.. Bell was able by long expert
ence and study of this to tell the profess
sion or occupation of any man at a glance
by his popularity of assymmetrical devel-
oDment.
Exercise obviates this by giving an equal
and symmetrical development to every part
of the human body. But the main point,
after all, is not so much beauty or Dropor-
ton. but health.
one may be happy without being beau
tiful, but no one can be happy who is not
the fortunate possessor of health and ade-
quate strength. Now, as Sydenham said
the best doctors are fresh air and exercise
and without them drugs are useless. If
chest be weak, then breathing exercises
VIII strengthen and deepen it. From this
increased use new lung tissue is formed
the blood supply is increased the waste
products are more thoroughly and rapidly
removed. and the tissue is better nour-
lshed. When this has happened lung dis
ease is almost an irnpOssihility. Microbes
viii not attack a healthy tissue.
The feeble lung. with its meager circula-
ton and shallow inhalations-half of it's
tissue never used at ai!-is the ideal field
Tor disease. 1t lies open to consumption.
One lady who came to me was in a very
serious stage of consumption. Her medi-
cal man stated that he and other doctors
| had failed to do her any good. and he felt
sure that II anything could be done for
her 1t would be a system of exercise. In
three months she was a new woman; be-
fore coming to my school she was unable
to walk any distance, and II she attempted
to do so she became faint and giddy. But
a the end Of course of exercise-simple
systematic exercise for one hour day.
followed by cold sponge-she recovered
health and strength: the badly diseased
| lung mad become much SounIpr the less
affected lung almost well. The chest
was deeper and more mobile. The natural
piumpness began to return with the change
! to health; before, she was painfully ema-
GATED
Exercise as a treatment for lung disease
has the very highest possible value, and 1
would recommend all medical men to study
Its effects. The exercises, Of course. should
not be violent, or be made with apparatus
Of any kind. In a similar way exercise
benefits dyspepsia, liver and obesity.
If women exercised there would be less
trouble with nerves. The perfect circu-
lation, the thorough elimination of waste
matter. would make such a thing imposs-
BILE. Indeed. l consider that this feeling of
comfort Is the first result of exercise.
Some Of the chief medical values of exer-
else lie in the fact that it Is a natural
Turkish bath and massage. In the ordi-
nary Turkish bath everything is attained
by profuse sweating, which has, I am per-
suaded. a distinctly harmful effect. Be
sides. the Turkish bath has a tendency to
cause a rapid deposition OF fat, which far
more than makes up for the loss sustained
by profuse perspiratton.
But in exercise, besides this perspration,
there IS an actual burning up Of this super
iuous tissue. real chemical disintegration
and elimination, and 1t has no tendency to
return for two reasons; first, there is in
Turkish bath only removal of the fatty
globules. and the tendency for these to
form in the superf1uous adipose tissue is
unchanged or even increased; second, the
deposition of superfluous fat Is a distinctly
unhealthy act, and results from the fact
that the vital energy cannot succeed In
forming the higher proted tissue, and
forms instead the less complex carbohy-
drate. In the better health and vigor re-
sulting from exercise this morbid degen-
GRAFTON of tissue is checked.
/ said that exercise was also a natural
massage. In bodily exercises, when in
changing from one posture to another the
pressure and relaxation on the various in
ternal organs better than the finest
hand massage, the latter cannot reach
parts which to the former are quite ac-
cessible. Exercise is natures massage, far
more thorough and far-reaching than any
artificial massage, while, unlike the latter,
there is no possibility of its doing harm.
Any one who knows the inverness of a wo-
mans life knows the suffering that fol-
lows from her neglect of these two simple
necessities-exercise and fresh air
Let women exercise systematically for
half an hour every day, following 1t up by
the cold sponge or bath, and there will be
famine among doctors, who. to do them
Justice. are never tired of telling us that
half their work lies In repairing our own
mistakes and follies