The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-28

bath on snappy morning? Taking
it for granted that you do, If you want
to feel the best and be fit to the top
notch Of fitness. for\the days work.
There's a right way and a wrong way
to get under a cold shower, A. L.
Oliger secretary of the Automobile
Trades association of Kansas, and an
ardent believer in keeping in physical
condition, says.
The average person regards a cold
shower bath on frosty morning with
the same degree of anticipation and
eagerness that he lavishes on a seance
NNith the dentist. That much-written-
about parsonage, Mr.. Average Man,
would as soon undergo an operation
for appendicitis as take a cold shower
in the morning. But there is a way
in which it can be done without a
severe shock to the system, or any
particular torture. Oliger says. And
he takes one every morning.
Get Under Gradually.
"If you can temper the water from
lukewarm down to cold, after you are
under, SO much the better" Oliger
says. IF you can't, get under it grad
ually. Lots of people, when they have
to take a cold shower. turn it on full
force, and after shivering and hesitat-
ing and dreading it till they are in a
state of desperation, jump under it all
over, stand doubled up, shaking and
squealing as long as they can endure it
and then jump out again. That
method means, beside all the discom-
fort, a tremendous shock to the sys-
tenn.
stick one foot under the cold
shower first. Then the other foot
Get 'em both wet. Then stick 'em in
a little farther the next time. till you
get your legs wet. Then stick your
fist into the shower, then your arms,
then slap some cold water on the back
of your neck. That drives the blood
into your heart from all the extrem-
tiles of your body, and gets your cir
culation to humming. Then you're
ready to get in all over.
Fight the Water.
when once you're under, don't
stand there and shake and wish you
hadn't got under. Fight the water!
Shadow box under it-dance, jump
you want to- When you get out you'll
have had all the benefits of a boxing
bout and a good bath too
From the point of efficiency in
business and the enjoyment to be had
from life, Oliger is a firm believer in
exercise. regularly and vigorously
taken.
ANY man who gives physical ex-
ercise trial and sees how much bet
ter he feels, how much more work he
can do, will never drop it after he has
seen the change" Oliger declared.
A Complete Gymnasium.
There is a. complete gymnasium in
the basement of Oliger's home at 1917
Plass, that gets use every morning.
And Oliger isn't the only visitor,
either. There are at least two others
consistent believers in the doctrine of
physical fitness in the Oliger home.
One of them is Jacob, aged seven, and
the other is Ilgian, aged five. When
daddy" goes to the gymnasium he
has company. The two youngsters
take their exercises and their showers
as regularly and consistently as their
father. And the youngsters of the
them can testify as to their physique.
Boxing is one of Oliger's hobbies,
and it has been inherited by the boys.
They have their own set of tiny box
ing gloves, which they keep in daily
use. When they can get their play
fellows into a box-fight, it is a delight.
Lacking other material, they box with
each other.
The remainder of the gymnasium
equipment at the Oliger home includes
a punching bag, chest weights, In
dian clubs, dumb bells, and a canvas
dummy, with which Oliger delights
to box In a corner behind the fur
mace, is the shower bath.
Exercise For Business Men.
The whole apparatus doesn't oc-
cupy more than 200 square feet of the
basement floor. Oliger has devised
set of exercises which he recommends
for business men who want to keep fit,
and which he distributed to members
of the National Association of Com
mercial Organization Secretaries, dur
ing the time he was secretary of the
Topeka Chamber of Commerce. At
one of the national conventions of that
organization, Oliger and Sickler, as
sistant secretary at that time, secre-
tary of the organization now, staged a
very classy boxing exhibition in sup
port of the contention that secretaries
and business men should keep fit.
The exercises which Oliger devised
are such as may be taken by any bust
ness man, without special apparatus
or equipment. In part, the outline
which he distributed, is as follows:
Arm. Chest and Breathing Exercises.
1. Stand with feet together, hands
at side, natural position. Raise arms
above head with snap. back of hands
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