The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-07-23
GRACE AND HEALTH
FROM USE OF FOILS

GRACE AND HEALTH
FROM USE OF FoILs
Marian Martineau in Chicago Tribune
Fencing is the best known exercise
for women said man who makes
his living developing the muscles OF
those who need muscular development
"but there is no such thing as muscular
Development without the muscular
bath. Too many persons try to be
muscular, but they do not try in TIE
right way.
Muscular development" continued
be- lis a dangerous thing for women,
dangerous from two standpoints.
Women never 90 things half way.
They either do not develop at all or
they develop too much. They do not
know when to stop and they soon get
too much OF a good thing.
Aim to Develop Evenly.
Again women who set out to develop
are pretty sure to lose something of
their beauty by doing so. They develop
On tie wrong way, and when they are
finished they have lost both their beau
" and their grace Often they are not
women at all They have lost their
Iemininity.
The girl who, on rolling up her
sleeves, displays the muscles of a man,
is the woman who has developed
wrong. She worked up certain mus
cleo and forgot to work up Others. She
is developed, but not in the right way.
There came into my gymnasium a
lew days ago young woman whose
physical development was one of the
finest 1 had ever seen. Her shoulders
were broad and her hips were wide
and deep, but her waist was small.
Her hands were plump but her wrists
We're little. Her arms were full but
not Of the sausagesque order, and her
limbs were splendid. She showed as
she walked tkat she enjoyed a. fine
state of health.
This young woman Joined a fencing
Class I'M the gymnasium. She went
Though all the exercises and did them
without break of any kind. At the
close she did not appear at all ex-
hausted.
keep in training said she. by
an hours work a day. I devote Just
one hour TO physical culture out of the
tWenty-four. L find it 81 ficient to keep
me IN excellent physical form.
Aromatic Bath a Great Aid.
In the morning 1 L.l.e n aromatic
bath. This is Earm III with
enough bath vinegar m 20 be in
Ngorating. 1t is a bath thar is in two
parts. ! first take a le-Vldtion scrub
one of the sort which familiar to
au IN hot water and soap 1 use a
homemade soap jelly and / take a bath
WIN iae water a about a medium tenn
pgrature
To get the water just right I draw
J, .he night before. The next morning
ii rs just the tempere ture of the room.
now add little hot water to il. or
sometimes use a bath bag. ! use the
Nlie bath bags Of thumb size. which
ere 50 convenient and cost so little
This bath is followed by rinse
Oai- ID aromatic vinegar 1 make this
lsselt and have various recipes for il.
~ iaFoTlte recipe is 10 cover a quart
~ strawberries with a quart of white
me vinegar. In three days 1 strain
tals and bottle it. l add a little to the
u'lh every day.
But continued this girl. laughing
"4Ie bathing is a great deal as a
my ia muscular development. 1T is not
-.' mole thing, not by any means.
next thing is exercise and it is
-aIa lo oveTate this. 1 would not give
up my exercise for anything i'm tie
'.gt-. take an hour of it every day
' sometimes l get it early and some
s s....-s IL Is late before 1 get ii, but 1 am
a-, 70 get II some time during the
Strength and Grace With Foils.
have different ways of exercis- !
'- MY faYOTite one is with the foils /
lHl that this is an exercise which |
'-'eA. lou graceful as well as strong. /
like 1t because it makes the /
.a strong. :. am naturally weak /
.a wrists / like to handle the foilz |
j = Tn1K 4
.N strong, without making them too |
muscular
herhhardt fences because fencing |
approves the Shape of the back Il
ailad OF that awful middle aged |
said she "and | noticed that |
.aekS of fencers were always nice J
ana fat"
,...l 10 have a pretty back ought to be
M. something to the woman who
To be attractive. Those awful
lips on Fat which come so soon TO
middle aged woman will be kept
va always if a woman will put on
H.. 'r PICK up foil, and lunge and
.lse with it.
f5 renee because I want to be grace
r. i notice that those WHO fence
H. nice graceful figures. The hand
-.7 y me tolls seems to give one a GER
, - alhount Of body balance. You can
y 1
.led 70 fence, and you can bend !
,.r ...gf forward You learn the trick
- llasstepping and you learn an sorts
~Iaeetul movements brought ont bv
ne parry thrust
Fencing Arouses Appetite.
=. 1 fence too, for an appetite 7
~. 10 be hungry at my meals. / don,t
,.aI'l TO be ice cream and-cake hungry
o1, hungry all the way through ! like
w. DC able to eat my dinnenr and enjoy
a. j don't want to depend upon seas.
= and condiments, dainties and
iaSJIy for my food supply.
Tie beautiful woman is generally
n woman who can eat nearly anything
ma. s-al is set before her; she can take
ny exercise that is offered: she does
~ nave headaches and she feels trim
M nj always. That is the woman
ad .o IS beautiful, the woman who is
N. 70 judge of beauty don't look at
bas.y young girl. All young girls are
loo 5I'lIul They have fresh. bright B
WA which alone is worth more than