Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1916, Page 25

\ = / \ T OMAHA SUNDAY BEF MAGAZINE PAGE - T —— Going Back to the (e dge | Jor HealllsandPeauly | Marion Morgan Explains Just How It Benefits Girls to Dance Barefooted in Winter’s Snows and - Why the Coming Race Needs Mothers Who Have Returned, in Part, to the Primitive they have become. I have encouraged in them the spirit of play. The cave woman s, in many respects, By Marion Morgan. Former Physical Culture Instructor of the Los Angeles High School. Above Is a ) J HEN in New York my six pupils went into Central Park in mid- Winter and played and danced in the snow it was thought that this was done for effect. On the con- trary, it was done through necessity. Play is a necessity. If it cannot be taken on the sand of the seashore or in the grass of the lawn or of the flelds it must be taken amid snow and ice. If the health be normal there will be none but good results from such exercise. Which is a sign of the return of the over-civi lized woman of to-day to the state of the cave woman 1 see a marked trend toward the primi- tive manner of living. I welcome and ald it. It is the salvation of the neurotic, hypersensitive product of civilization. Our women have fineness, acuteness, ten- derness, but they have not stability and equaninimity. To acquire these they must return to simple living. To give sons that shall be strong men they must return, in measure, to the lives of their progenitors, the cave women. I plead for a hardier life, for normal liv- ing. The more is this needed in a time he possible imminence of war. Women may need to arm for national defense, Did | hear the objection that ca women were themselves weak creatu »y wou'd not have permitted them- to be wooed by a club? To be ocked sensoless by a love tap with a erves doubts about the weight of those clubs and the terror and abject submission of the women thug won. The prints of our ancestresses, with caves for addresses, strengthen my doubts. Apparently art- ists shared my doubts. The hairy crea tures of sparse clothing were of stature and weight almost equal to their lords. In a test of strength they might have been victors or at least the battle might have been a draw. A woman may be judged by her chil- dren. The immediate descendants of the cave, women were creatures of great strength and appalling ferocity It is related of them that they jolned the males in tribal battles and that they were more ferocious than their brothers and husbands, more feared by opposing tribes, Woman has moved far up in the are of civilization since the time of the e woman. She has developed intellectually and spiritually far beyond her forebear. But her strength has been in inverse ra tio. She has become highly individual ized, but excessively nervous. She ha put her shoulder to the wheel of progress but she has often to lie in bed all day, a vietim of nervous headaches. She suf fers from depleted vitality. There are many palliatives. There s but one remedy. That is a back-to-the-cave-woman move ment by the physical path The chief means to this necessary end is play. Out of doors play. That is t} worthy to emulate. It is known that she did not suffer from that mark of physical deterioration, the packed spine. Let me make it clear, Are you a housewife and are you con- sidering at this house-renovating time your mattresses? They are good mat tresses but several years old. They have had fairly good care. But it {s noticeable that they have settled into a too solid condition. If you are a good housewife 1 assume you will take off the cover. The filling, be it felt or hair, will be taken out and be shaken out of its too solid condition. Obviously we cannot use such drastic measures for the spine. But we can stretch and soften its packing, not waiting for the annual housecleaning but doing a little day by day. The healthy person is buoyant of body and spirit There is no lasting buoyancy without an stic spine. Roman dance that 1 am sixteen girls, I shall ir sist upon an activity of the arms as great as that of the legs. Arms are, indeed more wieldly than the legs and more eloquent, It is a great pity that they are permitted to become ugly and inex pressive through lack of activity Stretch, stretch, stretch, Stretch the arms upward and you will give the tilage cushions, between the verte the stretching they so much require and without whi no one.can have health comparable to that of her great-great grandmamma cave-woman. Continue the ub of a tree? To have loved the con reason the six pupils I selected from my tretching and the spine will slowly yield ieror who dragged her by the hair to classes in physical culture in the Los to the pull of adjacent muscles. It will his subterranean dwelling? Angeles High School are the flawless change from the packed condition of it I answer that I have always had young examples of physical perfection cartilage cushions to an easily manipu 1 Miss Morgan’s in the Snow of Central New York— e g Rt e i . S wa.y S y—— — e o R ————— : e v — - — s o d \ A Rhythmie Snow Dance in Slightest Dress for Health and Deauty Aicesirem, Lhe'