The Washington herald., 1916-05-09
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER
Special COrrespondent of The wa.s-
tnEton Herald.
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New York, May Fiat is the ours.
OF the day. About every other per
son you meet IL reducing or trying
10 or talking about IT, There seems
TO be a universal desire among Aneri-
cans nowadays TO be thin ana scrswpv
iou never hear Of any one trying 70
take il on. II by chance they suecssd
they will talk about IL as much As
tons.
There are more people IN tn. UnIt.s
states trying TO get thin than there
are who are trying 70 get rich. And
they spend more time and thought on
It too.
or the hundred or so methods pre-
scFloeo TO reduce weight from taking
medicines 70 rolling on the floor. there
is not one but requires self denial
or lot OF effort That's why we stiIl
stay fat. Its too hard work 10 get
thin.
But listen to these glad tidings. all
you indolent corpulent A doctor down
IN Massachusetts, OF the name Of VII
liam l. Howard, has found an easy
way. According to DR.. Howard II 10
not necessary for fat people 10 Etsrve
themselves or ruin stomachs with
drugs or break their neckE in exer-
cising. All they need TO do to get
thin is 10 breathe.
To be sure you must breathe right.
Learn how to do II deeply and rhyth-
micsily, and then you will be well and
vigorous both in mind and in body.
In all systems OF reducing whore
regulation OF diet and food is the prin-
| ciple. DR.. Howard says, there is over
| looked the real Physiological princI-
pal OF combustion and repair Of all
tissues. when asked him TO explain
all this so that Judge Taft and "DiS-
mond" Jim Brady would be convinced he
said:
The stan OF life is oxygen. This 10
the stun which burns up fat and builds
new tissues The blood must have plenty
OF oxygen 10 carry 10 the internal organs
| from the brain TO the toes The blood
stream rich in oxygen will burn un fat
as quickly in the body as il will Goals in
range when you give them air draft, q
supply OF oxygen.
Real Benefit of Exercise.
The great value Of physical cxercis.
is not the development OF muscles. but
the increased power OF inspiration and
expiration. This enables the blood 70 re-
celNe an extra amount Of oxygen and IN
this way act through the blood stream as
tissue builder and fat consumer
Taking OF fat through q system OF
aletlns simply means tearing down.
stripping OF BODY tissues with no com
pensatoFy repairing. Such = method is
frequently injurious and generally weak
IenIng. The ovcT-fst middle-aEed rr-son
Is not Usually in a ft condition for such
vigorous exercise as will cause a burning
up Of fat. Either there Is danEerous
/ amount Of fat around the heart and lunrs
or the arteries are pressed upon or in
done?
| Fat can be burned up. muscles
strengthened. a steady, rich supply Of
red blood corpuscles sent to internal or
ssns and brain by learning how 10
breathe deeply. rhythmicaIy.
No other system accompanying COM
Portable regulation OF eating and drink
tnE habits will so quickly and physiolorf-
caly keep the bOoy and brain At as learn
Ing how 10 supply the blood stream with
oxygen. II is something OF an art but
is an art readily acquired"
| Whether DR.. Howard purposes TO 60
Unto the business OF teaching people this
art and all this explanation is free ad-
lvertising is more than ! know He, Al
least, didn't SO proclaim H.
TubercuIOsis in England.
Dr.. Haven Emerson is always diErinE
up some interesting facts about health
conditions all over the world I sgpposs
that's why they made him, health com
missioner. He has recetly Eot the
Figures OF death by tuberculosis in Eng
land and says that more people died hv
THAT disesse in England last year than
were killed in the trenches Of all the
belligeTent armies in the same time
! 1t seems incredible, for England is
reckoned 10 be a very healthy country
and London one OF the heslthiest cities
in the world
Dr Emerson asserts that = big menace
10 health in New York and many other
large cities are the too powerful electric
lights under which many thousands OF
Persons are compelled to work
! For the last week, New York news
papers have had many references to the
Civic Forum. I doubt II very many who
read these references had the least idea
what the Civic Forum IS, or thinks II is.
rather. II is an association OF hiEhbrovs
who have delegated 70 themselves the
right TO say who is worthy Of public
.sudation and who Is not. They sit up
nights and study out to whom a public
dinner should be given, and then a lot
lOf Philistines 60 right ahead and give
dinners TO people without consulting
them at all. or course the Civic Forum
doesn't cOUntenance such dinners hut
up to date l haven't heard Of II stopping
any.