The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-31
BY }. o. KEAToR.

SCRANTON, Pa, Oct. 3l.-Will all
the girls who can not lift six times
their own weight please stand up?
My, what a great army!
Now. will all the girls who can lift
six times their own weight stand up?
Thank you, Miss Isabelle Langel.
or course II there is one girl who
is the exception in the great army OF
American girls. there must be some
reason. Miss Lengel was not born a
physical wonder: she has developed
into one: and in order that all the
other girls may know how II was &C
complished. what this girl does, how
she does IL, and in other ways get
more intimately acquainted with her,
| went 10 her home for The Times TO
talk with her.
Miss Lengel Is II and weighs 1T.
For pastime she toys with 50-pound
dumbbells. swings on rings and takes
q turn in making punching bag beat
ragtime against an overhead platform.
But when Miss Lengel gets down TO
real exercises, she lifts 700 pounds,
and does It with the grace and ease
that astonishes.
Miss Lengel has the appearance Of
most any ordinary well-developed
girl. Still she is mere than that's she
! IS a bundle OF bone and muscles
nodded in the graceful curves OF a
perfect physically developed woman.
The Lengels home is at Scranton
| but not among the dwellings packed
! In sections known as centers of pop
ulation or even the little more airy
/
the outskirts OF the city where the
mountains slope 10 the valley where
the air is unmixed with the sulphur
and SCOT OF the industries and where
the water bubbles from the ground in
all it's purity-and where paved
streets broaden out into green fields.
VIM. Lengel. father Of the girl physl
cal.wonder. called attention to this.
There must be good health before
great strength.
II anybody thinks Miss Lengel is not
girl OF unusual strength let them
take an iron bar 80 inches long ana
hang thereto three iron weights OF
200 pounds each and then tie on TWO
dumbells OF 80 pounds each. oend
over. slip into their hands, two grips
and straighten up. bringing the load
does night and morning and gradual
~ she is adding little more weight
and SAYS she will not be content until
she can lift 1000 pounds as easily as
she now swings 700 from the floor.
This, OF course, to be done without
the use OF harness, for with a har-
ness Miss Lengel can now lift 1000
pounds: but she thinks TO lift 700
N
an extra 800 with one.
When a year and a half old. under
the tutelage of her father-himself an
athlete-the girl started training, and
year later she lifted SO pounds.
When three years old she lifted 100;
at seven she was able TO pull up 1S6.
This, the father explained, was ac-
complished by consistent, systematic
training that followed a schedule Of
clockwork regularity and consisted CT
sticking to it. The training was kept
up, and at IA years the girl showed .
remarkable development.
Miss Lengel comes from family OF
athletes. Her father, William. is a
strong man. He let's 1867 pounds
and has a chest expansion of 10
inches. with the aid OF harness he
has lifted 1000 pounds.
He has another daughter. Ethel, IA.
following in the footsteps OF her sis
ter. She weighs less than 80 and can
lift 210.
How about the stage? ?" / asked the
girl wonder.
AS she shook her head, her father
volunteered that the footlights were
not Turing his daughter. and while
both OF them were constantly recelv-
ing offers from vaudeville managers
and museum men, they were content
10 go on with their way Of living.
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