Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1890 — BEAUTY ON ALL-FOURS. [ARTICLE]

BEAUTY ON ALL-FOURS.

An Interesting Wrinkle ln the Physical Culture of American Women. The other day, says the New York Chatter, I accidentally ran across a member of the new school of physical culture women, whom I take to be the same women who recently made a man rich by letting him prescribe hot water by the quart three times a day as the great catholicon and beautifier. “Is it possible.” I asked, “thatthere are ladies who will walk around and around their rooms on their hands and knees ” “Hands and feet.” she said, interrupting me; “on their four palms.” “There really are such persons?” “I am one,” she said. ‘ ‘And there are ladies who lie on their backs and gesticulate with all their limbs, like an overturned beetle endeavoring to right himself.” “Yes, yes,” she said, “and it’s most beneficial. You don’t know how beneficial it is.” “Will you kindly.-tell me where your sense of humor is when you are engaged in these most peculiar performances?” *‘l don’t know, ” said the lady. <•! think it must be where it belongs. Why.” S “Oh, nothing,” I replied picturing in silence to myself the utter impossibility of my locking my chamber door and transferring myself into a circus of such dimensions. Breaking the silence, I asked: • ‘And do you go up and down stairs on all-fours, as some do?” “Oh, no,” she replied with a sigh. “It is impossible for most persons to do that. One must be alone in the house to make it possible. It is a pity for it would be, very beneficial. As we can’t do that, we are ordered to take carriage rides over the roughest roads in town.”