The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-05
I He NERVOUS WOllAn CAN ALWAYS DO HIS

cold enough to chin her. then It doss hsa
! more harm than good.
In the best ssuttartur In Germany thsy
rub nervous patients with cocoaaut butter,
20 to give them back some OF thet7 nat
ural oils.
They rub skin foods into the body and
! make tho invalid strong BY alcohols.
oils and by simple medicines which aIs
taken into the system through the outicis
and not Into the stomach
The nervous woman should exercise. but
she should exercise not her tired muscles.
but her rested ones.
Her knees are not tired. therefore STA
should exercise them
If she VIII DO series OF chair exercises
she Will find that they do her good
She can step on chair and step down
again until she IS out OF breath
She can stand upon chair and trut. goln9
up and down first on one foot and then
upon the other. until she feels that she has
been bicycle riding.
Wheeling is good for the nervous woman,
but she is often too tired to venture out
too nervous TO face the street sights
For the woman VINO Is too nervous to 70
out upon the thoroushfares for a spin there
are simple chair exercises which she can
take al home
She needs no other apparatus than .
stout-seated chair, and she can jump up
and down. trot, bend and twist without
in any way oyeIlaxinS her strength.
The nervous woman will find that exar.
cisng upon q chair takes some skill for
she must keep her balance all the vhils
or the chair Will Zip.
And this very effort to keep her balance
will interest her SO that she Will like hsr
task and will look forward to her exercise
time.
TIRED GIRLS EXERUsEa
Pretty soon she will become 80 sxpert
that she can hop UP on the chair without
touching the back.
When she = able to do this she can b
sure that she mas learned to breathe prop
erly.
Deep breathing Is necessary for ths ttssA
nervous woman. but, unfortunately, dean
breathing is hard work.
1t tires her to draw the deep breath that
comes from the pit Of her abdomen. and
after ono or two trials, she gives Il un
But the chair exercises VIII help her, and
when she jumps up and down she uncon-
sciously breathes more deeply than usual,
and SO she gradually gets into deep breath
InG.
There Is another story to be told for the,
chair exercise. 1t Is a story for the woman
with too much adipose tissue
And the story is that the chair e1aru4,s
Will reduce the weight; and IL certainly,
will.
Now, to tell the woman who weighs 100
down again is nonsense.
She could not hop up en- q foot stool
She could not jump over q string; she could
not perform any kind of an athletic feat
1t is all she can do to navigate her
weight along.
But she can try the chair exercise Slow
ly. She can begin with a stout-seated
wooden chair. and can climb up into it
and stand there. and she can climb down
again.
She will pant terribly after the exercise
But she can keep It Up, climbing I'D into
the chair and down again until she has
exercised for fifteen minutes
The fat woman. the woman who weighs
200 pounds. will be very lama after this ex-
ercise, very warm and very short Of
breath, and very thirsty.
But she must not take drink Of water.
On the contrary, she must abstain from
fluids.
She can take a bite OF fresh fruit or
can eat whole sour apple. But she must
not drink the glass Of iced water which
she Graves.
FAT WoMAN'S TRIALS
The next day she will be lame; but s,s
must go through her stunts again.
And this time. IL she be very lama. IN.
deed. she can rest for day
The period Of encouragement comes fcr n
fat woman on the third day. for she Is sore
all over. and she begins TO feel as though
she would never timber up again.
OFTEN she becomes very respondent ana
resolves to give up. trying TO reduce Hsr
weight She decides that she was horn ~ ~.
fat and that fat she will always be
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