The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1903, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL, 11 7 | o” ECRGE §. MIEHLING, teacher s culture and pic Club, and sted men in wres- g for health, rticle for the Sun- s experience in teaching and the with members of great weight to his rs, resuits who wrestle under itted for this reason of the exercises the professor. He is a spec n of manhood him- g ed his development g out his own theories. se theories when put into g about the desir iced by the physical ap- y of his fair pupils; e who would reduce graceful proportions following article in- d re- retiring at those who s of exercise that tiring. Men play ng beanbag. This e much to develop keeps them in the eks rosy and né body game gave developed beanbag the proper form of ex- er y persons. When Jam J t, the famous boxer, tng est with Jeff be: s may ap inc bu Corbett needed Le. s trainer pre- pared two be ich weighed not more E three pounds each and the st and pass the bags to f a manner. It not on 1« t's eyve but ealso ms n e. After playing the game 1 rt time th men would be suf- fus pers n Thus, 1 say, beanbag has its benefits. I is train for the severest Kir stops to p the game it P trying. 1 men beanbag is beneficial. It will reauce weight and bring color to ct hat slack color. It will put a . the eyes and will bring health . to bodies that need it. ne ball” which s used by [ ng is also & splendid form of e The ball used by men is ™ r than that which ought to be w en. Puplls of mine have te r ds by tnssing the ball. 1 g in every direction and . the figure. At first one wil fe a trifle sore, but If the exercise is c e soreness will disappear and the 1 begin to enjoy it. past years the sclence of and hygiene has made The elementary laws of been more widely diffused elligently followed by the ge. Alr, food and sleep and n properly administered are as well as great preven- This fact is becoming alized by doctor and patient. Our ere better ventilated, our table more healthfully provided and the con- @ition of our families shows marked ime provement. Outdoor games are more pop- ular. Our style of dress has been modi- fled In favor of health and comfort. Now- -7 el adays parents send their children to col- lege In the confident belief that they will recelve physical as well as mental train- ing. In our own city the athletic clubs are flourishing. Both sexes are beginning to realize the necessity of exercise and under the watchful eyve of experiencd instructors are improving their physical condition. Next to handball, the most popular form of exercise at the Olympic Club is tossing the “medicine ball.” Athletes know that this form of exercise will put on muscle and take off superfluous flesh. The “medicine ball” is seven inches to one foot in diameter and is filled with bair, welt o} some other material. It is covered with leather and welghs from four to elght pounds. I have arranged a serles of exerclses to be used by my puplls and they never find 1t irksome. Some of the ladies who have placed themselves under my care have decreased their weight and secured development where it was needed. The ladies whose pictures accompany this ar- ticle have succeeded In taking off twenty pounds or more by tossing the “medicine ball.” It is a mild form of exercise and is attractive, The ball 1s passed with efther hand and the body is turned in every direction. The back, arms and chest are strengthened and the constant bending reduces the girth. Many members of the Olympic Club have developed ridges of muscle on their stomachs from bending and tossing the ball. For people who take on weight easily the exercise will do much to re- duee them. Beanbags are not to be despised as means of exercise. They are social in their nature, as a number of people can play at the same time. The double bean- bag pass did a whole lot of good for Corbett and will certainly help cthers. Falr puplis of mine, who find the “medi- cine ball” too strenuous a form of ex- ercise, have adopted the beanbag. These light and ylelding things can be thrown back and forward with speed and in less than two minutes the players begin to perspire, FOIT TESVCING THE~ These bags are madie of stout bed tick- ing and are about ten inches square. - The bags are two-thirds full. They should be free from dust and not be heavy. Bags that weigh not more ‘than three pounds are just about right for the la- dies. In exercising with the bags partners should stand facing each other and be about six feet apart. The bag should be thrown with each hand, alternating rapid- 1y. Both hands should also be used, as the walls of the chest are strengthened by the continual movement. A great deal of fun can be had if two bags are used. Each one tries to pass the bag while the other is thrown forward. After some practice great skill can be developed and the exercise becomes a pleasure. A Dbeanbag that is filled with welt or some other soft material will cause no bruises. No matter how swiftly it is thrown and how delicate the player may be she will not suffer if the bag comes in contact with her face or body. This is why the simple game of beanbag is be- coming o popular. . How ‘often are women ridiculed for 7 Py 7z Ao oee Vo4 ABR Ley, SHoul s CLRINE ANOTITER WA, thelr inability to throw & Ball er any other object. It is:true that their collar- bone 1s shorter than the sterner sex, but women are hampered because of thelr lack of familiarity with their shoulder muscles. I would suggest that the ladies practice thorpughly the exercises that will tend to develop the shoulder muscles and to increase the extension of the arms, not for the sake of being abls to tbrow a ball, but for the purpose of securing strength and comfort. ‘Women should cultivate sll the exer- cises that will give suppleness to the body. There cannot be grace without suppleness. A woman who exercises has & better carriage than one who does not. ‘When the body is held erect the spine is strengthened and is graceful in curve. Five or ten minutes of this exercise each day will do much for suffering women. The costume to be worn during these is a simple one. No corset 1s used. A sWeater or jersey, a palir of bloomers and rubber shoes are essential. The sweater will absorb the perspiration and is comfortable to work in. Rubber shoes are necessary when exercising on a BLE FIANG SZECTEE TS wooden floor, a8 there i3 no danger 6f one losing hes. footing. After obtaining a healthful glow all over the bBody a bath will be found very beneficlal. There is no sense in'jumping into a cold plunge when the body is heated. Let the water PR FOR DFLrLz be tep!d and then gradually turn on fhe cold water until you can stand it A brisk rub-down should follow. If these directions are followed weight can be reduced. In conjunction with this I also give them other exercisesthat will XEKCISING FeEFIEALTH - BY ¢EORCE _/’ /YIIE{ILING IN/TRUCTOR P’IQI/MAZ:K VLTURE= J AT THE OLYMPIC CLUB == O TOS . DD J?'/?/VF"'OEO STUD/O e N tend to make fhem graceful Ne ap- paratus is used I simply follow the course latd down by Willlam Greer Har- rison, president of the Olympie Athletic Club, who has made a deep study of exer- cising by both sexes. | JONQUIL'S BEQUEST. | By He’en Whitney Clark. IR 3 (Copyright, 108, by T. C. McClure.) IGHT more blocks to walk— Caesar’'s ghost!” gasped Bab, as she whisked around a cor- ner and ran full tilt upon a young man who was striding rapidly in the opposite direction: a tall, young man, fashiongbly attired, from the tops of his stylish hit to the soles of his up-to-date patent leather shoes. “Well met, Miss Bab!” cried the as- saulted party, gracefully uncovering his blonde head before the fair apparition, while a smile of delight twinkled in his X3 OF= AZELPUCIVG 5 TOMACH ANL T TILENGTAENING THE SR Basel-gray eves. “How have I deserved this good fortune, I wonder? \ Bab giggled in school girl fashion. “Do you call it good fortune to have the breath almost knocked out of you?” she inquired saucily. “I do, indeed, under the circumstances,” retorted Mr. Basil Van Moyle with un- doubted sincerity. “May I walk home with you, Miss Bab?" “You may, and welcome, 50 far as I am concerned,” answered Bab, airily. “But Cassandra will kick about it, I can tell you. Bo you'd better think twice before you venture.” Basil's smile vanished. “Is she still as unapproachable as ever? he asked #“Just as unapproachabls,” sighed Bab, with a sympathetic glance at her com- panion. “You ses, she says it's not proper—"* “Propeér! I am sick of the word' As it it wouldn't be the most proper and nat- ural thing in the world for Cassandra to marry me, and let me take care of her— and youl” “That's just what I tell her,” flashed Bab. “Only this very morning I talked to her like—like a Dutch unclel ‘There is Basil Van Moyle fairly rolling in gold,’ I told her, ‘and here we are, as poor as church mice, just because you are too proud to marry into a family that don't want you!” But bah! what does she care? She wouldn't marry the Shah of Persia— if his mother objected!” “H'm, I shouldn’t blame her so much for not marrying the Shah of Persia,” put in Basil grimly. me. “But she might marry f course she might,” assented Pab. almost marry you myself, as I told rather than go hungry as I do. But won't—"" [ “Bab,” Interrupted her horrified com- panion, “is it really true that you have gone-hungry ™" “Why-00," admitted Bab, ‘reluctantly, “I dldn't mean to say we were actually reduced to starvation, but when it comes to baker's bread and coffee, day in and day out—" she shrugged her shoulders expressively. ‘“We've eaten up both gold watches Aunt Dorinda left us,” she went on, “besides a trunkful of ball dresses, and I suppose we'll begin on the old claw- legged bureaw\ to-morrow. What are we going to do when the bureau and the few bitY of bric-a-brac we have left are de- voured is more than I know, unless Uncle Jonquil turns up in the meantime.” “Who in the—I mean who is ‘Uncle Jonquil?" ”* queried Basil. “Why,” he’s our uncle—papa’s only brother, and the only relative we have left in the world,” confided Bab. “Humph! Worth anything?" “Rich as mud,” declared Bab, with en- thusiasm. “That is, he was when we last heard of him, but that was ages ago, when I was quite a child.” Basl] surveyed the fair, youthful cheek of his companion with an amused smile. Bab certainly did not look her sixtesn years. “Why don’t your uncle do something for his nieces, if he is such a Croesus?” he asked. . ‘ell, you see, he was always a rolling stofle, though he has succeeded In accum- ulating so much moss, pursued Bab, spec- ulatively. “The last we heard of him he ‘was getting up an expedition to the north pole. But I'm always hopeful he'll write to us some day from India, or Texas, or some such place and invite us to come and spend the summer with him at his bungalow, or haclenda, or—or—" “Or wigwam,” suggested Basil, mall- elously. “I shouldn’t care,” persisted Bab. “At least I wouldn't have to drum up art classes In a wigwam. But here we are. Isn’t it a horrid place?” Basil's Interview with the lady of his love was an unsatisfactory one, and he took his leave muttering maledictions on the fate which had placed a golden bar- rier between them. “Come to breakfast, Cas! The coffee is getting cold. I've made a round of toast, and there’s & dab of apple butter that Mrs. Dilshneider sent in,” wheedled Bab. “Eat it yourself, dear,” urged Cassan- dra, responding to the persistent sum~ mons. “A bit of toast is all I care for.” “It isn’t all I care for, then! You may not have noticed it, Cas, but I'm actually starving by inches. I'm dwindling away. I-1 want little nice things,” snivelled Bab. ‘Maccaroons and sardines and pickled olives—and—and fried chickenl! And charlotte russe and angel cake, like we used to have at Aunt Dorinda’s!™ Cassandra stared at her sister, aghast at the sudden outburst Ehe had never known Bab to grow hysterical befors, and eagerly strove to soothe her, whem the landlady thrust a round, smiling face in~ side the door. “If you blease, dere vos a shentleman to spike mit you,” she announced. And Cassandra nervously obeyed the sum. mons. Bab still sat drooping by the table when her sister returned, brimming with ex- citement. “It was & lawyer, Bab, dear, to tell us we have inherited a snug lttls fortune from a deceased relative of papa’s, named Jonquil,” she anmeunced, half tears, half smiles. “The money is in the bank and ‘we can draw it whenever we please. It seems heartless to be so glad,” she added, remorsefully. “But, then, we never knew the—er—Mr. Jonquil, and we do need the money so muchl!™ “Of course we dol” cried Bab, raptur- ously, jumping up to give her sister a “bear hug.” “Let's go right up and get the money now, Cas, and we'll go to the swellest cafe In town for lunch. I'm just dying for some chicken salad. And, oh, Cas!” Babdb was falrly dancing with ex- citement. “You can marry Basil now, and his mother won't object, seeing you're an heiress!” “Ses hers, Mr. Impostor, I'm not going to keep your gullty secret any longer,™ declared Bab, when the honeymoon was over, and the young couple were #8ftled in a cozy home of thelr own. “Oh, you needn't pretend innocence. I know all about your daring ruse! Uncle Jonquil never left Cassy and me that fortune?r “Hey? How—how do you know that, Miss Impudence?” “Because we never had any Uncle Jon- quil! I made the story up that day out of whole cloth! Name and all. So now own up and make & clean breast of 1t!" “Alas, mea culpa,” groaned Baall, bumping his head against the wall in penance for his perfidity. “I plead guilty, but ‘all’s fair in love and war." "™ “So I am a portionless bride after all, am 17" asked Cassandra, half inclined to pout. “Portionless? No, indeed. You are worth a king’s ransom in your own right!” declared her adoring husband,