New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-12
SKIPPING ROPE.
Advantages Of Systematic Exercise of This
Sort

From The Hospital.
DR. Fond, of Gloucester who IS fnvorably known
of his ezertons in The OF vaccination is also
"a NE Hinn suppGrt OF society Tor me PROMOTION
In this capacity he has lately put forth a pa'nphet
a systematic exercise pamphlet the first men
ZION OF which is perhaps likely To provoke a smile
considered Or. Bond does not use the verb TO
skip in its wide JohnsOnian meaning. does
ne refer at all To the exercise attributed to tho
high hills by the Psamist; but he Intends TO
m roPe when ound much % ayor With Rif the yS2n
people OF nifty years ago, although, If we are not
tive disusc In the present day. lie has even gone
the exercise may be most advaHtageou5iy pen pHr
r",nea ana aT gnhn ms nGXem5Gn the
suit OF an alliance between Euros and bole
aerousy 1ffaet those Of the thlng sisniaed; and
there can be no doubt that the contrivance, which
Somewhat weshtsS in the S centre and roteeted
there hy being inciosed within tube of vulcanized
thu efforts Of an adult who tries for the first time
Dr. BanI point out the wIde TanGe Of muscular
action which The cXerc- requires. the muscles Of
tarcous activity; and he dwels also upon the ease
70 meet he reces~ies or we skipper. and to keep
pace with progressive improvements in his or her
almost lanauIdy. or at the sowest pace which will
ALLOW the rope 1--WE beg pardon the sirbola to be
in sreed until the fents Of double or even treble
makes two or even three revolutions for every
lump. II be laid aside after skins OF
after twenty after two hundred, according to
the nature Ct the ard The increasing strength
Of the perfU<Iner, and il NAV be taken uD any-
where and IL any time. either out of doors or in
any room dr passage where few feet OF unen-
numbered 4pace nc obtained. DR. Rnnd
strongly reSpmmcnds IT 20 be practised for a few
minutes on drst rising from bed, or after n hath
and speaks from personal experience of it's efficacy
i'm giving ~%iGor to the muscles and tone to the
circulation even in a subject longer in the
heyday of youth. He specially recommends II i'm
all the cases Of weak heart in which exercises are
calculated 10 he useful. and thinks it much better
adanted to their requirements than any of the
'resisted movements which have been advised
In such cases and which only be practisei with
the aid Of a person trained in their performances
He also recommends it daily custom for ali
persons engaged in seIentarv occupations and
especially in occupations recurring brainwork as
the best noseble means OF c0upleractinS the ten
dency to local congestious which such occupations
may involve.
There is ALWAYS something contagious in en-
thuslasm and we confess that DR. Bond seems
to 10 have gone long way toward proving
his case ut all events to have shown that a
neElected child's sport may be so used as to he
eynnently useful II children Of 2 larger growth
We have recollection Of definite therapeutic
position having been assigned to Skipping by m
earlier writer except in the case or children
suffering from what WAS known 70 the last gen
GRAFTON as ''strumcuS oDhthalr'in. n condition I'm
which great intolerance OF light often continued
Tor many days or even weeks. and In which skip
ping was recommended rs 4 VGSsr~s exercise