The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-04-09

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Playful Gymnastics With a Sofa
Cushion.
marian MartineauinC Chicago Tribune.
Do you want to lose flesh? Have you
been losing it and do you want to con.
tinue? Do you know anybody else, be-
side yourself, who would like to lose
a few pounds? And would you your
self like to lose enough to change your
elephantine proportions into a sylpn?
Well, you and all your friends and
every body wants to get thin can lrine
about this result. 1t isn't done entirely
in day, but you can make some i'm
provement in a day. And if you VIII
keep at it you can make a great in
provement in a week and still grea ter
in a month.
The newest method is the Tiennese
method. 1t is system which was
tried in Europe six months ago. the
august parsonage being, it is whispered,
no other than King Edward And
when the experiment succeeded the
Niennese health doctors took up the So
called method and have been reducing
their patients by it ever since.
Its first principle is that of fresh air.
And this absolutely bars from its treat
ment all those who must remain indoors
all day or the greater part of the day.
Business women and working women,
stenosraphers; bookkeepers. clerks and
even housewives are shut out from its
benefits unless they can SO arrange
matters as to be out for several hours
for each day.
The Viennese method calls for three
hours in the open air, not necessarily
walking but breathing the good, clear
fresh ozone. These hours cannot be
taken at night, but must be snatched
right out of the middle of the day, when
the sun is shinging and the air is at
its best.
Those who devote the evening hours
20 exercise do not receive the same ben
eft. Nor is there quite as much good
10 be found in the exercise that is
taken in the early morning.
The principle upon which this Wen
nese reduction works is that the fat Is
a disease and any conditions which
produce the disease are harmful. One
Of the causes of fat is poor air. The
lungs are supplied with bad material
and the result is stagnation. They do
nOt work freely and the system is low
and poor and dull instead Of buoyant.
The second treatment by the Niennese
method is that of playful exercise.
Those patients that can take the time
are given one hour a day Of good.
pleasant, vigorous exercise. They are
put into a gymnasium suit and are
made TO exercise for one full hour. The
room. which is a cold one has open
windows and the air circulates freely
through the room.
The best implement for these playful
gymnastics is a sofa cushion, not an
old one full Of dust, but a nice fresh
new cushion, filled full Of cotton or
lively feathers. and ready for pommel-
ing
The actions are not violent ones. but
are selected for the best development
Of every muscle of the body. The
muscles that are called most particu-
larly into play are those around which
the fat gathers quickest. The thin
muscles are given d rest, while thoss
that are buried in fat are made TO do
a great deal of hard work.
one of the best motions is that Of
kicking the pillow. This is held out in
the hand at arms length and is then
kicked with the toe of the shoe. a
stout woman will find difficulty in do
ing this without losing her balance. Shit
viii topple over backward. But she
must perseYere.
II is a good thing If two persons Will
practice the pillow exercise together, |
for one can kick the pillow to the other
and when it comes back again can send |
il flying again. And so on with the
game until the hour is up.
Doing gymnastics alone, even with
so pleasant an implement as a sofa, |
is no fun. 1t needs company, and it Is 1
y game at which a dozen can play. |
One can kick it to the next one. 1t IS
easy. pretty work and plenty OF fun. |
To see d party of fair gymnasts kick |
ing the pillow around the gymnasium
Is q pretty thing.
Exercising with the foils and the
dumbbells is much harder, and the |
punching bag and the boxing gloves are
both difficult and firing to all but the
trained amateur. But the pillow exer-
rises are those which even a beginner
can practice and the implement is al |
ways at hand.
they indulge in a pillow fight every |
lay The pupils toss pillows at each |
other and duck to escape them as they
1y. There are rules in the game and
he winner scores. One woman acts as
arget and stands at the end Of the
'oom one by one the pillows are let
ly at her. She ducks this way and
hat way, letting them go over her
read. The aim must always be at her
ace. And if she receives a pillow fun
n the face it scores against her. If all
ly harmlessly over her head and are
)iled up in the corner behind her she
-eceives the physical culture prize of
he day, whatever that may happen
% be.
But the Viennese method is not all
un and exercise. There is a great deal
u dieting TO it and rigid dieting of the
most exacting nature. Fat people are
at because of a tendency to accumu-
ate flesh. What they eat goes to adj
1ose tissue Their food is absorbed by
he tissues and feeds them rapidly.
When people have this natural ten