The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-05
Dolly Hears Something New About
 Massage and Chiropody From Expert
Clever Woman Who is Valuable Asset in Her Husband s Work-Always Bright Cheerful Energetic and Inter esting, Her Temperament is Worth Much in Her Profession-A' Field Invaded By Women.
 The Worlds Work
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

methods of massage that he uses I have learned also. l started in the primary department, as it were. giving the sweat baths and alcohol rubs, and then later learning massage, which every intelligent person agrees is almost an essential thing to health and comfort nowadays"
 What do you think massage can REALLY do?' Polly asked as I saw her warming up to the situation, and talk Ing q birdseye view Of the electrical ap- pllances, shower bath arrangements, the apparatus pertaining to chiropody and all the other things with which the rooms were equipped
 You are going to be the next, ] said. looking Polly straight in the eye.
 'Of course l am. I feel it coming on.' she replied I've d terrible attack of that
 red feeing-ennui shall l call it? And believe if had the steam roller run over me and a bit of electricity applied to my spinal cord, I'd feel like a new woman. You asked me what l think massage can do?' Mrs. Fortner said presently, after the interlude in the conversation. T think it is the greatest possible aid to the nerves. to digestion to overworked sensitive, tired people, l think it cures when all medicines fail, aches and palms of many descriptions. Particularly busi- Tess people who live on their nerves and profit by it. You have no idea what q large patronage we have from the work ing people They have realized the ne- cessity of such things. Relaxation after q days work, getting the blood into circu- lation. soothing tired nerves and all that sort of thing means everything to the business man or woman, and besides that, 1t makes people younger and more &C., tive-more able to cope with the duties that confront them day after day" "Refutng the old adage," Polly inter- rupted, interrogatvely, that woman is as old as she looks?'
 "That idea went out when the masseuse came in," said Mrs. Fortner laughingly. It's one thing to LOOK young and an other to FEEL young. Of course, a wcman is only as young as her friends permit her to be- which is never very young, but massage makes a man or a woman either feel young and supple makes their body 1.-the and pliable and in- vigorates them to a remarkable degree"
 "Chiropody, I consider Is one of the most important parts of +our work Mrs. Fortner continued "A comfortable foot IS the most necessary thing in the world to anybody. You recall the Frenchman's saying that to concentrate all the ills in the world into one great i'll, get a tight shoe. From that cause come many of the ailments that the foot is heir to. The insrowing nail. the bunion, the many other disagreeable things that can happen to the feet are simply terrible, and need att tention from the start. If person lets those things run on, the next thing they know they can't wear q shoe at all with out suffering tortures from them.''
 Polly went in, just at this juncture, and suddenly when the work began I heard murmured "Ohs'' and Ans and all sorts of e1aculations. and then distinctly caught:
 "Its perfectly lovely, and it feels de- licousl"
 l had expected to hear a wild shriel like that in the torture chamber of "The Darling of the Gods" but instead before I knew it, Polly was being rubbed down. and "patted," and "kneaded like a pan of rolls" and electrified" and "soothed," and then put Into a queer looking little electric cabinet arrangement from which she silouted: i
 "Good-by Dolly, I'm in New York and have just dropped into the Subway, and I'm going out to Columbia University for a little trip"
 It was time for me to gold gotten my story, and I left Polly to emerge fn- maculate and feeling like a 2-year-old and thoroughly convinced that good massage can cover multitude of aches and pains!