The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-12-19
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How to Take Fresh Air Into Your LUNGS
BY MARION MARTINEAU.
(in Chicago Tribune.l


Of course you must take the air prudently The
woman who gets out of a warm bed and rlshes to
the easement to throw wide the window pane is a
foolish woman. She will surely chill and the result
viii be a cold, a touch of rheumatism, or some
kindred ILL.,
1t must be taken a rule this time of year that
the body must not enjoy a sudden change of tenn
perature. Every effort should be made to keep the
body at the same degree of heat and cold When
YOU are in the house you can lay aside your wraps.
But when you go into the street you should wear
n sutfcietn amount Of clothing to maintain
equable temperature.
This does not mean bundlmg up, for, when walk
ing. the body keeps III glow and often little adj
ditonal clothing viii suffice long you keep on
the move.
The woman who gets up in the morning should
see to it that her is comfortably warm before
rising. 1t is best to get up in hot room which
be Immediately cooled the clothing is put on.
This allows the body to keep its proper temperature
There are sudden changes.
The morning tubing is thing which depends
upon the temperature There are those who cannot
take full bath in the morning, but who can battle
al night and there are others who are positively
invigorated by the morning bath This is partly
question of habit and partly one of temperament.
The same rule will not apply to all, because your
sister do this and that do not imagine that you
do likewise. Study yourself and make laws and
rules for yourself
Inc woman WHO Is StlIlllS IcduS lVl d IL"
utes of physical culture exercise in the open air
must dress completely. She must wrap up if she
feels the necessity for doing She must be per-
fectly warm. yet not too and must be dressed
in such manner that she can draw full, deep
breath
1t is now time for her to go to the window and
throw it Open As soon as she does this she must
thrust her arms out of the window and. with
clinched fists, must begin TO so through series of
calisthenic exercises.
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arms up; arms down: arms straight out! arms up,
fingers touching over the head This must be re
peated In few minutes, soon you can draw
deep breath. Arms up; arms down; arms straight
out; arms up, with the fingers touching over the
head Keep right doing this. and over
again. without stopping, many times as you
Fifteen minutes of this exercise will throw you
into deep glow and will redden your cheeks and
make you breathess with exertion But you will
not have an exhausted feeling and the sensation will
be one of inauguration rather than otherwise.
In the beginning do not attempt the full fifteen
minutes, but be content with FIVE minutes. Exercise
as hard as ever you can for five long minutes and
YOU will feel ready TO stop. During this time
the arms vigorously and be that you stand
ing directly in the open window. Deep windows
best for this. for there Is better sweep through the
room. If you feel vigorous you add the hip and
abdomen exercises, but for the amateur the arm
movements viii be quite enough at first.
The woman who exercises by the open window
before breakfast must take not to, do certain
things She must take care not to begin her exer-
cises directly after bathing She is apt to chill and,
if nothing worse happens, she will at least chap her
face.
The face and the hands should never be wet be-
fore going out And the woman who exercises be-
fore the open window pane should dry her face well
and wait fully fifteen minutes before allowing the
cold air to lay upon it. Otherwise the action of the
air will make it blowsy and notified, chapped and
rough.
1t is the same with the hands, which should be
carefully dried and little cold rubbed into
themsbefore they are exposed to the air,
There was once girl who began taking the open
window exercises. She was fat girl, far too fat
for beauty and since she was short her excessive
fat made her look dumpy.
This girl made it her practice after dressing to
throw open the window and take a series of calls
themes. She exercised fifteen full minutes every
morning in the air.
And what was the result Why, in the course of
few days her fat began to disappear and in three
months it had melted away in mysterious man
ner that was as gratifying as it was becoming.
And there was another girl This girl was awk-
ward and narrow chested. Wishing to have wide,
full chest. she made it her practice to exercise in
front of the wing every morning. And the result
was most beautiful Her chest widened and she ]
grew graceful as her figure became improved.
And there yet another girl, this one pretty
girl. who took the exercises in order to keep her
beauty She was slender as a reed and graceful
fawn In spite of her years of city life, with its
indolences and its overheated rooms, she main
tanned her figure and her beauty. And if you were
to see her today she would tell you that it all
largely due to the habit which she had formed of
ertising in the open air.
But. while exercising, you must take care of the
skin. And here is another story and less agree
able This story is about girl whose skin was
red and rough and awful Powder would not stick
upon ii and the whole surface was white and faky.
1t got and the she exercised the rougher
her skin seemed to become.
One day she solved the mystery and it was found
in the open air exercises. Instead of drying the
face and rubbing little cold cream into it, it was
her practice TO step to the window and, with face
still damp begin her open air exercises The result
Of the cold air, it beat upon sensitive, moist
skim was worse than can be imagined.
The skin must be protected from the biting air
or it viii gather chaps and roughness while the
body is gaining in strength and beauty. But of |
what all the grace and all the strength in the
world when the face is scanned and creased or when
il looks weather-beaten like that of hardened old
Jack Salt
Take care of the skin before throwing open the
window. and after a few days trial. if you find your
growing red and notified, then take
warming. Cold cream it we'll dust little powder