Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-03
By Stifa PlaSkovietyka,


xxoU talk of exercise, exercise, exercise, you
Americans. But alas, you only talk about
it. Else why your women fat? Why do
they waddle instead OF walk? Why their faces SO
PALE their eyes only occasionally brilliant and then
only with their scant emotion, their greater intel
Iectuaizaton, not with overlooking strength?
Your exercise in America is a Jest 1t is impossible
for me to regard it with seriousness You DENY it?
You accept my challenge to prove that your exercise
is worthless? Well then, | will What do Won do
for your backbones? Nothing. Yet the backbone
which is to the body what the cornerstone is to a
house. needs careful, regular exercise.
Let me prove to you the Importance of strong
welfexercised backbone In Europe every child that
asks entrance to ballet school is physically examined
Whether the child is admitted to the school or not de-
ponds upon her SPINE If the spine is weak the
is refused admance If is strong the child passes
Therefore, you readily understand dancers career
depends upon the spine.
If the backbone is only moderately strong he or
she is admitted, because it is known that dancing
strengthens the back Early reached the conclusion
that everyone should dance If only for backbone
Your women are at best only fairly graceful. Some
OF them are always clumsy. None of them stoop with
grace. l have never seen American woman pick
up pin without awkwardness. If her brooch falls
and there is about to for her she is
painful object she endeavors to lift 1t from the
ground. If she loses an overshoe in the mud a
slipper the dancing floor her conortons make her
object of ridicule.
Upon the backbone depends the balance of the body
Have you not seen poor, wavering creature MAX
ing his way down the street. with or without aid and
thought of rudderless ship at sea? The instances
are parallel. The spine holds the body together.
maintains its balance If the spine is defective the
body tacks ship in a gale.
Have you given thought the structure of your
spine? doubt it, for il you remember how that main
arch of your body Is constructed you would be i'm
PEELED to give the necessary to keep it well
and strong
The spine is composed of twenty-four small nearly
fiat, nearly round bones. These bones in way take
care of themselves. 1t is with the soft packing
tween them must mainly concern ourselves These
cushions of cartilage must be kept even. Greater
weight side the other will cause them to
become wedgeshaped. Quickly will follow unnatu-
raj pressure upon part of the spine. Pressure
causes irritation Irritation Inflammation. In
nammatlon always spells danger | have heard that
one of your greatest Americans Thomas A Edison the
eyeryoung boasts that he dresses such way that
there Is never any upon any part body
Notice the heels of shoes worn by persons you meet
on the street Some straight. All should be So
The well-kept heel is straight But the tendency is
TO run down on one side the other causing the
heel to become crooked. The commences of the run
down heel is not great the tendency to have
rundown spine Both are dangerous but consid
erng that the spine is of the principal highways
or the nerve messages to the BRAIN you will realize
how much more dangerous to your well being is a
rundown spine.
The cartilage packing between the vertebrae is
also like pillows Every day, if you good house
the spinal cartilage cushions should be shaken by
stretching and exercise.