Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
WANT GOOD HEALTH?
JUST DANCE YOUR
LIVELY WAY THERE
This Advice Of Expert APP
plies to City Dwellers Who
Lack Opportunity for Ex-
ercise
ercise.

The easiest way TO travel on the road
to health is to dance, according to one
OF the most noted health doctors Of
this city.
The only qualification that the expert
would make to this statement was that
1t might not apply to people who live In
the country or to residents Of the cities
when on their summer vacations
zone fact Is certain" he said. "Peo-
pie who live in town during the winter
months are afforded almost no oppor-
tunitv for exercise unless they dance,
and no one can retain his health VINO
does not get proper amount of exer-
else Therefore ] say that II Is good 70
dance.
Like any other form OF exercise,
dancing should be indulged In regularly
to give the most beneficial results. Those
who do not find an opportunity to go to
dances several times a week should prae-
tice at home; they will not only get the
exercise but will become more proficient
In the art.
If there is one thing that makes me
tired" the enthusiastic expert continued,
at ls these mothers who forbid their
daughters to dance because it will tire
them all out or because it will spoil
their feet.
such people are so ignorant of the
functions ofthe dance that II is madden
ing to hear them talk II they would
only go back to their Greek histories and
note that the most healthful race Of
people who ever existed practced this
art almost continuously, perhaps they
would not be so enger to air their views.
"Of course a person who only dances
about once n month is exhausted every
| time he indulges in the pastlme, but those
who dance so regularly that they may
| almost be sndi to train for il as an
athlete does for n race. never feel this
effect. The worst that can be attributed
to dancing Is that II gives one an nppe-
tite that strains the reCources of the
kitchen.
"And this talk about spelling the feet"
he continued, why 1t is ridiculous If
the muscles of the feet are weak they
should be built UP, and this can be done
by dancing better than any way / know Of
One of the essentials Is, of course, that
| sensible shoes be worn. No one oan de-
velop the muscles of the feet II high
heeled or extremely narrow and under
sized shoes are dstorting the foot contin-
ually."
The common sense DOCTOR" as he calls
himself then showed that dancing de-
velops the lungs as we'll as the rest OF the
body, thus rendering persons who practice
the art less susceptible to colds and other
affections of the lungs than those who do
nothing to maintain their bodily health.
though he pointed out the necessity OF
avoiding drafts when heated by the ex-
ercise.
In conclusion he declared that those
dances which required bending of the
body were most beneficial such as the
old Boston Dip and the more recent
though less strenuous tangos. the mhxixe,
the fox trot and the Lulu Fado.
IL have never seen any step to compare
with the dip in the Brazilian maxixe," he
asserted. The step. with the STOPPING
movement from which one gradually rises
TO the natural position, is one OF the best
muscle producers I know, as practically
every muscle of the body is brought into
play. You can't tell me that any young
man or woman who dances that step reg
ularly is unhealthy. because I don't be-
lieve such n case exists"