The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-27

to play An dnot work. There Is an
unxeplainable relaxation in the mo-
lions OF a swimmer that one never
sees in any other form Of exercise
This may be because the weight OF a
swimmer and the weight of water is
about the same; in that case specific
gravit-rhat tremendous force-fa-
vors the swimmer.
Aids Pelvic Troubles.
The reason why any and all forms
of pelvic displacements are righted is
one can understand when you consider
the tremendous advantage of having
ell the benefits of exercise while on
the horizontal plane. The usual signs
of pelvic trouble is pain in the region,
and the pain may be postericr, anter-
ior, lateral or deep and diffused, but
this article is not supposed to go into
either the cause or Symptoms of dis
ease, but to show the reader facts con-
necteG with the therapeutic value of
swimming! so say to my readers
that you can very quickly prove the
value of swimming in this connection
by noting the very speedy relief from
pain in the pelvic region by engaging
in a daily swim for few days. Thus
the proof Of the assertion l make can
be easily tested.
II woman has the house habit,
the street car habit, the elevator habit,
tive physical life, she may experience
the same trouble that a person will
who never runs, but should suddenly
| take a violent run-namely a pain in
the side, but the form Of pain in the
| head known as headache. This trou-
BILE will soon disappear upon continu-
! ing the swimming, for swimming does
not cause the headache. The previous
inactivity the cause. God is truth,
and the devil is the spirit of error, and
in the advice of the doctor to rheu-
matte patient to keep out Of the water,
say it is the devils advice, for the
unfortunate rheumatic creature is suf-
fering from muscle rot, the result of
inactivity. A rotting muscle forms
poisons that, being retained in the
system through inactivity, causes the
| pain known as rheumatism. OF course,
/ in this matter will not lay the entire
blame on inactivity, as I believe that
wrong diet has a great deal to do with
causing rheumatism. But to restrict
the rheumatic person by advising him
not to swim is so absurd, as well as
terrible in its results that can only
thing of the king OF evil spirits as
the one who does the advising. Who
was it said that cleanliness is next
to Godliness?" l rather think that
cleanliness and Goodness are INSOFAR
able. Water will enable person who
is internally filthy to be clean ex-
ternally. Just look at those sallow-
| faced matrons with double chins and
internal cancers, and so rusty in their
movements that we wonder how they
live at all. Now, the cause of their
slow painful motion is internal filth,
nothing more and nothing less, and
not dampness.
Makes for Internal Cleanliness.
Swimming promotes internal clean
illness by causing, or rather. assisting,
the peristaltic action of the bowels,
and is there any more hygenic recrea-
ton than that which is a JOY to all
the muscles and viscera in the body?
Take the man or woman who has
sat at their desk for three hours, or a
child at school who has been com
PEELED to stay two hours on a chair
and give them half an hour in a
swimming POOL, and notice how fresh
and relieved they feel afterwards.
At Monroe, La, where the Detroit
baseball team trained, Paul Hale
Bruske, the wellknown sporting writ
err, informed me that the healthiest
and most robust women in the United
States are to be found The req on is
that they all, without any exception
swim, and swim almost every day, in
their big city owned hot salt water
swimming pool.