The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18

get up in the morning and walk ten steps
to breakfast.
After breakfast they walk ten steps to
the sitting room. Luncheon is only a few
feet away and dinner is right under their
noses. They need not walk a hundred yards
a day unless they feel Inclined.
There is no stair climbing, there are no
long halls to be traversed, there is no big
library, and as for a drawing room-well,
they have to put up with the tiny little apart
ment house parlor. And the result is-what'
The woman gets fat; she is fiat ridden.
Many Of my pupils live in handsomely
appointed apartment houses where machin-
cry does everything possible. 1t is for them
that | am drafting my rules.
Il begin by suggesting a certain course
Of athletics. Women will not begin by diet
ing. The question of diet comes later.
II have a class of girl pupils who are do
ing the pumpkin exercise. These are very
fine if you live in a fiat and have a kitchen.
Pumpkin pies are in style this season,
and there is usually a nice yellow pumpkin
to be found under the washtubs in a well
regulated fat. OF course. a pumpkin sub
stitute can be used, but this particular class
are taking the pumpkin exercises proper.
They find them very invigorating.
Here are the phyical culture beauty d.
~rections as served out to the beauty class:
Take n pumpkin about the size of your
head and lift it 10 see if you can handle it
easily.
Nothing is gained by using weights that
are too heavy. Take one that can be easily
lifted. DMmbbells would do, but all the
members live in p rtment HOUSES where
and where Indian, clubs would find no
suitable resting place. The apartments
are not fitted up with gymnasium rooms,
and the pumpkin is handy and useful.
1t is also better than dumbbells when it
comes to the balancing exercise.
The first Of the pumpkin exercises Is
that of lifting the pumpkin on one hand.
It is to be taken fifteen minutes before
breakfast and fifteen minutes before lunch
con.
Take the pumpkin in the left hand and
lift it a g high as you can. Balance it evenly.
Now take three deep breaths. Lift it in
the right hand, balance it and breathe
deenly again.
There is no better exercise than this
breathing, for the act Of lifting, the arms
opens the lungs, exercises the heart and
straightens the shoulders.
Keep at this four minutes by the clock,
you were boiling an egg, and YOU must not
overstep the time. Exercise if too long is
as bad as exercise that is too Shorthand
%orss.
PLACE &c. the pumpkin 1p1s fiat on TOP Of the
catch it when it falls, and start across the
room. If you are in doubt how to walk
pay a visit to the Italian quarters and
watch the women and children walk with
loads on their heads.
1At first it will seem as though o could
not stir a step with the head carried 80 far
back and with the chin lifted so high, but
start off.
@The pumpkin may slip off your head,
fold a square Of calico and lay it on top Of
your head. and place the pumpkin on top
Of 1t. This will give it poise and a founda-
ton.
in a few days you will toss the pumpkin
on top Of your head and start off as easily
as though TO Italy born. And then you
will begin to walk with the easy grace Of
the Roman woman.
1T will come to you. this erect carriage,
this proud poise Of the head, this wonderful
grace of muscle and sinew so to speak,
and this wide lunged carriage.
Lifting the pumpkin in both hands in
good. Lift it as high as you can. Then
lower it until it almost touches the foos,
bendilg as you lower.
Lift it again and while it is lifted do the
scales, in breathing. The scales are not
difficult.
Hold your hands above your head and
take a series of little short breaths, draw
ing in your breath in little gasps, without
letting it out RS much as once. Then,
when your lungs are full, let the air out
aga in, little by little, until they are empty.
Then toke the dumbbell exercise with
the pumpkin. Lift it out in front Of you,
rea ching straight ahead. Then lift it out
at the left side, then out at the right side.
then raise it and lower it.
DO this again and again. You will find
there Is nothing better. Don't, however,
practise too long at one set OF muscular
exercises.
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