The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-27
Women Sufferers of Obesity or 7hinness
Will Find Swimming Health Benefit
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BY n. n. ~VOHSNNs
Swimming Expert at Local Y. M. c.
4 This Weekly

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Swimming Expert at Local Y. M. c.
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There Is no department of recreat-
ing pastimes in which there is such
q thorough abandon as in the sport
of swimming. When the subject en-
tiers the water, at once the nervous
system recognizes the even pressure
on every part of the skin surface ex-
erted by the sOftest substance in the
northumberland in this bed one
will forget their troubles, both phys
ical and mental.
AS an auxiliary to the water bath
we have the sun bath, not to speak
OF the freedom of motion that the
body experiences when clothed only
in bathing suit. Here a man at
once forgets his business pressures,
his family troubles or the fact that he
has a hard time to keep out Of the
lunatic asylum or the hospital.
Mother Nature 10 Kind.
Great Mother Nature is, indeed, a
jealous spirit, and will permit no 9TH
the healing art; and great, indeed. is
the reward melted out to those who
study her laws Take the young girl
who swims through her girlhood into
young womanhood, and thence to
motherhood into old age. You will
find her most vigorous persona
creature OF health, indeed.
C,uIr, IN hoo1th ic yov odVico f0
erican women who have pelvic trou'
bles And all men who are truly in
terested in the conservation of the
American race should encourage wo-
men and girls to swim in order to
cultivate a living body full OF power
that the children who follow us may
be beautiful, strong and pure. The
greatest blessing that nature can be-
stow on a woman is to make her beau
tiful and attractive, and none know
this so we'll as those unfortunate wo-
men who are ugly and repulsive.
Now the point Is how can swimming
restore color to the cheeks Of the pale
! woman? The three chief organs in
the body concerned in promoting a
rosy color to the cheeks are the heart
the liver and the lungs. The heart
is rested and strengthened by the
body being on the horizontal, as 1t
is much easier to pump the blood
along a level course than up hill, and
the heart being a continual motion
strain and strengthened by rest. Thus
swimming Is a very decided heart
strengthened. Yet strange to say.
people with weak hearts are forbidden
to swim by doctors. This is because
doctors are under the delusion that
straining and swimming are synonO-
nous term. (See my other articles
for explanation of this error.) After
days spent in swimming in warm,
pleasant water the heart acquires a
strength it never before knew and is
enabled to send the blood to the face
with force.
! Aids the Liver Action.
We all know the liver to be a big
sieve which, without any muscular
power of its own, strains the impuri
ties from the blood. which is forced
through it by heart action. When
the liver is clogged poisons remain
in the system that produce very NOR
bid effects on the brain. The liver
Is greatly assisted in it's function by
the peculiar eel or snake-like motions
OF the trunk whom swimming. thus
promoting action in that organ that
enables the stomach and bowels ir
turn to perform their normal func
lions. TIE result Is pure blood sent tc
the cheeks, while the eyes sparkle
with responsive life and the subject
is happy. though poor.
See the happy little boy who has
nothing to do but swim. have taught
thousands of boys who entered the
water for the first time under my tut
ton and the approach of the swim
caused them to shout and yell will
Joy at the very thought of the motion
OF swimming long before they ge
into the water, and it is the same will
the boy who can swim. for he know:
much better the joys that he will ex
perience by the motions of swimming
and he hallos to the full power of hi
lungs. OF course this will help tn
lungs by emptying all the bad al
from the very bottom Of them. Fo
women it would be very undignifiet
; and out OF the place to do as boys dc
even though it prevented them iron
dying of tuberculosis.
10 Good For the Lungs.
Thus when I say swimming is tn,
best OF all exercises for strengthenin,
the lungs. | refer to the shoulder me
tons peculiar to swimming, the craw
trudgeon or alternate overarm stroke
on back as we'll as the fact that NOR
than half the art Of swimming i
deep breathing. OF course. in an i'll
ventilated natatorium where the oxy
gen is deficient the lungs would be ap
to receive as much harm as benefit.
Now that we have a series of pleas
ant exercise such as swimming is, ez
, planned why it brings color to tn
cheek and sparkle to the eye, let u
compare its value to work of art
; say diamonds on the person. Ma
, can place diamonds on woman t
the value of a million dollars and dres
to the value of a thousand, and it /
. the work Of man. But rosy cheek
and sparkling eyes are the work O
, Mother Nature and as a rival Of ms
, ture mere man is so insignificant a