The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-30
JIU JITsU GIRLS DAY RULES.
First She Takes Tonic of Fresh All
and Then a Walk.
New York SUM-

/ cay rules, said q pretty young WOuia1l
holding out an arm 10 be pinched.
There is my arm. Hard as iron. 1t is
all muscle. yet it looks light and soft.
There is no bunchiness about IL, no
knots. nothing but good, firm flesh.
Not for worlds would I have the
great muscle knottcd arms of the
American girl athlete. She, poor thing,
win show you knot of muscle on her
| upper arm. just below the shoulder.
as big as your fist.
Feel my muscle she viii say.
IL she were to say this Co jiu-jitsu
/ Instructor he would say:
Alas. you are muscle bound. There
is no strength where your muscles are
so hard. so knotted and SO punched up.
You viii grow weaker and weaker. You
| cannot hope to get stronger. Your mus
cles must be evenly strengthened.
1 The day rules of the jiu-jitsu girl
are the most interesting part Of her
routine. If she lives up to them she
win follow out no less than ninety
seven rules. AS for me, / follow about
| three dozen and am contented.
The first day rule is TO get up early,
/ or If you do not get up, to wake up.
/ Wake up early, open the windows and
/ lie down again. This gives you half
an hours good pure breathing
| Il have a jiu-jitsu alarm clock which
wal1ens me at precisely ) in the morn
! ing. 1 slip on something very warm.
/ jump out of bed, run to the windows
I and throw them wide open Then I go
/ back to bed to breathe the good morn
/ ing air as it comes in the windows.
! ''The Jfu-Jitsu girl dislikes ever to
close the windows. She sleeps with the
j windows open all the year round. One
/ window is down from the top and the
! other one is up from the bottom. This
gives a current of air through the
room. Breathe fresh air. is one of the
| rules.
The second day rule for the jiu-jitsu
! girl is to get up and take a walk. Rain
| or shine, she walks an hour before
/ breakfast.
"A good rule is to run part OF the
way and walk part. Most jiu-jitsu girls
/ do this, If they are where they can
do so, they walk a mile, then run an
/ eighth Of a mile, then walk. then run,
arriving home at breakfast time in fine
condition.
The real jiu-jitsu girl-if she lives
/ in Japan-has very little milk to drink.
! There are fewer cows there than in
| this country and so she cannot take a
glass Of milk before going for a morn
/ ing walk But in. this country a glass
I of milk can be obtained or a glass OF
hot water, which is better than nothing
/ Mineral water is best of all.
ITO take a little of something acid
( before breakfast is one of the day
rules of the jiu-jitsu girl. A cup of hot
water with a lemon squeezed into il
win do. There must be no sugar.
! This may seem little raw at first
but it soon becomes very palatable
/ And for quenching thirst there is moth
| ing like il in the world.
There are three good thirst quench-
erS. 50 the jiu-jitsu people tell US The
[ first IS q glass of water with a lemon
/ squeezed into it. The next is glass
/ of beer slipped slowly. The third is a
| little iced barley water, itself very
/ pleasant after you have learned the
4 taste.
The jiu-jitsu girl, by the way, cuI-
I tivates her taste. She never says
/ How horrid.' She goes to work and
! learns to like the things recommended
/ to her.
THE jiu-jitsu girl also learns TO like
oatmeal water. To make oatmeal water
] you cook the oatmeal, pour off the
/ water. ice it and there you are You
I can add some cream to il il you please.
! There is another thirst quencher
| which plays u very important part in
! the life of the jiu-iitsu girl. This is a
( tea cocktail There is no other name
for 1t in English, unless You want to
/ call it plain tea.
ITO make the tea cocktail. take as
much tea as viii fill a teaspoon. Put
it in dry cup. Pour in a cup of boil
/ ing hot water. Put the saucer on top
/ Of the cup. Set over a tiny flame for a
/ second, not long enough to crack the
cup, and the tea is made
ITO drink it, pour off into another
( cup, also very hot, drop i'm a maras-
chino cherry and a lump OF sugar, and
| there you are. The real jiu- jitsu girl
/ drinks this without the lump of sugar.
/ II is called japanese tea sometimes. to
| distinguish it from Russian tea The
rule Of the j.ujitsu girl is to take tea
warm, not hot.
Long walking is not strictly a iiu-
iitsu requirement. The japanese wo-
men, though very strong, do not do a
great deal OF walking in the street
Their shoes are too clumsy for this.
But they exercise "a deal in the
] house, and are very partial to swim
ming baths and to the gymna siupl. But
the American girl. trying jiu-jitsu at
home, cannot always have a gymna-
stun handy. The street must be Ter
exercise ground.
Another Of the day rules OF the jiu-
jitSu girl is to walk at a good smart
gait, and to have her muscles free and
easy as she walks. She may lace when
in the house. or when dressed i'm her
ball gown. But when she goes out to
take her health exercise, she does not
lace by any means. Her clothing is so
loose that every muscle is free and she
can feel the blood tingling through
every part OF her body
AS a rule Of the jiu-jitsu girl-one of
the rules she follows all the time-is TO
exercise when she feels herself getting
out OF sorts. So she says co herself:
" When / feel i'll 1 am cross. When
am cross then ! grow irritable When
grow irritable L grow ugly. When /
grow ugly 1 am not pretty. And it all
comes from feeling i'll. ! must keep
Well And i can keep well only by
taking good exercise
One of the best rules Of the jiu-jftsu
girl is nerve rule. She makes it a
point to do nothing at all for a great
part Of the day.
She sits in the dark and she closes
her eyes. or If she Keeps them omen
they are looking at nothing at all. She
never rushes through the day. but she
takes things slowly and gives her
nerves plenty of time 40 rest
Here are some OF her other dav
rules:
Eat only two meals a day unless
you are on the go. II quiet in the
house you need nothing except your
breakfast and your dinner.
Don't eat all you can hold Get up
from the table hungry. II you are stiil
hungry an hour after dinner. eat some