Evening star., 1928-11-04

II you are interested in physical cul-
ture perhaps you can make money in
a most enjoyable way as director OF
home physical training
| One woman who has built up a
rather nice little business of this sort
/ began with Saturday morning class
| for school children She started it
when school started two Autumns ago
and induced five or six mothers to let
her have their children from until u,
charging so cents for the morning for
each child. In that time she super
vlSed their outdoor games to begin with
and then as the weather grew colder
and unsettled she took them indoors to
large. bare room ir her house where,
with windows opened and enough heat
to take off the chill. the children went
through various drills and games.
The first equipment she bought was
number of wands so that there might
be wand drills, then from a sporting
goods store she bought a set of parallel
bars which she had put up in this
bare room. Before long her class of
children increased until there were 10.
so that she was able to make SIS for
three hours work on Saturday morn
ing.
Then she started reduction class
for five or six women-all friends
who found it more amusing to take
their reducing exercises in company
than in solitude. They met two morn
ings a week for half an hcur-and
paid so cents week. which meant only
S3-still So for total of one hours
work. In the half hour periods the
members of the class we're given spe-
cial instructions in the reduction exer-
ciSeS which were prescribed for home
use. BY means of scales the members
had chance to see precisely what. if
anything, they had lost during the
week.
Later this amateur physical tulturist
became known and was engaged by
better-to-do women to come and give
private instructions in reducing exer-
cises at their homes. And now between
children's classes, reduction work and
special corrective work with children, |
for which one of the local doctors he's |
arranged. she is making rather more |
than she would be making teaching |
school, and is doing it with3u+ ever
having to leave her own home for |
more than two or three hours at a
time
To do something of the sort I think |
all the personal qualification you would
have to have would be an interest in
that sort of thing. You do not have
to have a certificate from a school of
gymnastics. although that might be
helpful. If you buy one or two books
on the subject of personal hygiene and
development you can probably get from
1t much Of the information you will
need
Some money spent on parallel bars
and other small gymnastic equipment
might be necessary as your little enter
prise develops. If there are schools in
your neighborhood where there are no
symnasiums you might find 1t useful
o get list of all the parents and then
10 interview them relative to your
,hvsical culture for children. There
will probably be some children more in
leed of such guidance than others.
Instructions in various sorts of out
loor sports usually proves profitable
hough seasonal. If you live where
here Is ice in Winter you might give
kating lessons to young people. One
'oung woman floods her own back yard,
cts it freeze and then converts it into
private rink, where she teaches the ;
ounger generation their first lessons
n skating.
OF course, to take up this work sue {
essfu1ly woman would still have to
'e young enough to be physically quite
ctive. And as an advertisement of {
What she has to offer she should look
lealthy and be neither too fat nor q,
or thin |
The advantages of such work are