Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1890 — Page 7

FORTIFYING PHYSIQUE.

PROF. EDWIN CHECKLEY’S NEW METHODS.

Xew Cour.es of Training Advanced by tbe Modern High Priest of Physicultore— He Opposes the Old System of Hard Labor. •

Athletic Mr. Checkley, whose superb physique is a striking proof of the correctness of his theory, so far as he is concerned, believes that in many of the popular system practices in and out of the college gymnasiums there is more •straining” than “training.” and the method he advocates is a radical departure from all these familiar paths. For health lifts, chest expanders, boxing machines, rowing appliances, and the hundred other inventions in use at a gymnasium, ho has a profound contempt. They Eiay give muscle to the performer while e is in constant practice, but let him cease overhauling the machinery of the (gymnasium and the biceps of the amateur Samson soon grow soft again as his Interest in the work flags. As*for the dietary discipline that generally accompanies this violent form of training, he

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considers it a humbug and altogether unnecessary. Professor Checkley claims that the strength born of these harsh methods is superficial—only skin deep, as it were—and has no staying qualities, #says the Chicago Herald. He says the muscular system of man is not made up of chest and biceps, and that any principle of training which fails to educate the entire physical being is false, improper, and injurious. Punching a sandbag may be a good thing for the arms, but will scarcely increase one’s permanent strength or permanent health. A man may be able to do this to perfection, and still be ignorant of how to carry his own body. He characterizes this kind of exercise as “outside” training that is ■unprofitable, and which often proves more than a harmless mistake.

The foundation of Professor Checklcy's method is, first, how to breathe, and second, how to stand, “Do these correctly and you will have mastered the A B C of physical health,” says this athletic apostle. “The office of the lungs being of the very highest importance, it follows that to neglect them means danger to the entire body. One may think he is developing his lungs by a form of exercise that expands his chest,” said the Professor, “but after all this expansion is merely a matter of external muscular development, and the theory is on a par with the general superficiality of the average system of training. Hard layers of muscles on the chest do not improve the permanent strength of the lungs. The enlargement and strengthening of these organs can only be accomplished by the exercise and special training of these organs themselves. In other words, not outside, but inside exercise lies at tho very bottom of natural physical training, and I claim that the education of the lungs should preclude that of the outer muscular system, for the natural increase of lung strength and chest room Is retarded by methods that begin work on the outside.

“Lung diseases are less frequent among women than men, and yet the women breathe less air than men, but they do it In a better manner. This is partially attributable to the use of the corset, which, fortunately, has tended to produce a habit of breathing with the upper part of the lungs. Abdominal breathing Is particularly common with the male sex, and this habit of exercising the lower part of the lungs is the reason why the upper parts that first receive the air are left in a state of relative weakness and susceptibility. In my opinion, "remarked Mr. Checkley, “the diaphragm

INHALE WHILE EXTENDING ARMS AND EXHALE SLOWLY ON RETURN.

has properly no greater necessary use in expanding and contracting the lungs than the ribs themselves. In other words, the action of the diaphragm should be sympathetic without being Initiatory. The lungs have their own muscular nowef, and this power should be fully exercised. “The simplest preparatory exercise is long breathing, While standing or sitting in any proper attitude, with tne Chest free, ia a Jcu|g krae*&

IIERE are people that would be disposed to apply the term “crank” to Edward Checkley, the young high priest of physiculture, who recently broke the record in bicycle riding between New York and Chicago. But if he be a crank, Mr. Checkley is certainly a very intelligent one, and his views on what he calls a natural method of physical training are well worth considering.

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the lungs seem full, taking care at the same time not to harshly strain the lungs or muscles. Hold the breath for a few seconds, and th'in allow it to slowly leave the lungs. By consciously breathing in this manner the lungs will be enlarged and strengthened and the breathing will become slower. Normal breathing when the body is at rest should not include more than ten breaths in a minute. I get along very comfortably, sleeping or waking, with about six.

LOCK THE THUMBS; RAISE THE ARMS AND INHALE. THEN LOWER SLOWLY AND EXHALE.

During exercise of an ordinary character the breathing will naturally increase to fourteen or fifteen breaths in a minute. “In all lung exercises these organs should be inflated upward and outward instead of downward. The chest and lungs should be carried as if the inflation were about to lift the body off the ground upward and forward. The feeling of buoyancy produced by this habit is not an illusion by any means, but a genuine reality. “But to breathe properly one must know how the body should be carried. First learn how to stand. If I were to choose twelve people at random, and, placing them in a row, were'to take a liberal drawing of their actual standing positions, they would present a curious spectacle. The distended abdomen and more or less flattened chest would prevail in a majority of the dozen subjects, while in eleven out of twelve the bone structure of the body and not the muscles would be fquul j>!rg most of the wojk of kcci i..g t* ../'lfprTght. The abdomen is pushed into disagreeable prominence by allowing the body to rest on the legs as best it may, which produces a rounding of the shoulders and a conspicuousness of the abdominal region. This attitude is lust as common among women as men, in fact even more so with the former, for corsets, while theoretically holding the body up, encourage lassitude of the waist region. Then, again, women like to affect a ‘willowy' stylo of standing and moving; many girls seem to think that there is a kind of feminine charm in a lackadaisical manner. It is the muscles that should hold the body in position and the bone structure of the body should not be forced to perform this work. The task of holding the trunk erect and of keeping the proper relation between the spine and the pelvis devolves upon the muscles, and it is worth remembering that the height of a man may be materially affected by the manner in which he carries himself. If he uses the muscles of the hip and abdominal region and of the back instead of allowing his trunk to settle down he

INHALE WHILE RAISIKG HANDS; LOWER SLOWLY WHILE HOLDING BREATH AND THEN EXHALE SLOWLY.

may be certain of establishing a better height than if he did otherwise, and this status will be permanent. Of course, the spine may be relied upon to give a certain support to the trunk, but the multitude of muscles associated with the spine are intended to perform the greater part of the work in keeping the body in position. The muscles should not only direct the posture of the body but largely support It, and this should be remembered in standing and in every other position and action. To do this does not imply greater la'oor, but less; and what begins by a conscious effort will soon end in a habit that will become an exhilaration. What often passes for fatigue of the muscles is simply irritation, arising from impeded circulation of the blood, brought about not by the use but by the cramping or non-use of the muscles. “This numbness or irritation from impeded circulation is particularly-likely to result from bad habits in sitting. In this position, as in standing, the muscles must be brought into play, and precisely In proportion to the extent to which they are used will be the absence of fatigue in sitting. Of course I do not maintain that one should continually sit bolt upright, for this would entail great fatigue to a person compelled to sit during a great many hours each day. Some of the muscles may be relaxed and the position modified for short periods, but they should never he so relaxed as to drop the trunk upon the spine, leaving its own bone structure to hold it in position. Those who have dropped into this roundbacked posture will testify to a peculiar weariness in the lumbar region of the spine or what is called the ‘small of the back.’ This is not because the muscles are tired, but because they have been benumbed by failure.in the circulation. A proper maintenance of muscular action will keep up the healthy circulation and make it easier to sit for a considerable time without fatigue. “The cultivation of the muscles in the region of the abdomen and the lower part of the back will naturally have the effect of making it easier to sit, as every gain in the strength and extent of a system of muscles builds up a power of involuntary action. In relaxing the trunk the well-drilled army of muscles Witt fe* fam n 4 to- >»«* sftfttefate4 *

to hold up with little perceptible effort. In walking the face and the chest should be kept well over the advanced foot, and the habit of lifting the body with the muscles and by the inflation of ths lungs should be preserved. A mincing step should bo avoided. Take a free, firm, and easy stride, avoiding any jarring motion, keeping in mind during every movement or exertion the function of the muscles to support and move the body.” After a disciple has learned how to walk, stand, and breathe correctly, he Is next taught a number of movements that combine the respiratory with muscular exercises, and which will be found easy, yet exhilarating. They are intended to fill the double office of strengthening the lungs and developing the shoulder and chest muscles. The beauty of this mode of training lies in the fact that one is not obliged to go to a gymnasium to take the exercise, but can indulge In it morning and evening in his own chamber, or at midday in the office. The exercises given by the Professor are simple, and yet he claims they will prove far more beneficial than those galleyslave labors, performed by the man in training under the old system.

ADOPTED SON OF EX-SENATOR PALMER.

World’* Fair Famo Promised the Baby • Senor. During their sojourn at the court of Spain, Hon. Thomas W. Palmer and his wife fell in love with a baby Castilian, the son of a lieutenant in the Spanish navy. They encountered the child and its parents at the seaside city of San Sebastian, where they were summering. An offer was made to adopt the child. At first both mother and father were averse to parting with the little tot. Mr. Palmer then procured the young lieutenant a six weeks’ furlough, and the latter, with his wife and child, went to Madrid and lived at Mr. Palmer’s residence. They became so charmed with their host and hostess that at the expiration of the six weeks they gave their consent to the adoption of the child. The papers were drawn

EX-SENATOR PALMER'S PETS.

up, in which Mr. and Mrs. Palmer agreed to briDg up the child, educate it, and in case of their death, -to restore the child, with an annuity for its support and the completion of its education. They also ggreed to have the child instructed in Spanish. It was just before the Palmers sailed for America that Higinio Pablacion y Carpentero lost his name and his parents. To the ministerial residence one day came Spain’s great orator, democrat and poet, Emilio Oastelar. Then the little Castilian, who was to become an American, was brought into the great hall, and there, with the blessing of the renowned Spaniard, who laid his hands reverently upon the child’s golden head, he wus christened Murillo CastelarPalmer. Then little Murillo sailed away from his Pyrenees to his new home in America, and'is now in the Palmer home, at Detroit, with a Spanish nurse. When one learns that the pay of a lieutenant in the Spanish army is only S3O a month, no wonder is caused at the readiness with which the Spanish parents parted with their pretty child. The future it has before it now has a prettier, brighter, more alluring* vista than it had in Spain. The little senor has a boon companion and playmate in a pretty little girl, the daughter of a Michigan farmer. Excellent portraits of’ the two lovely children are printed herewith. Little Murillo is bright, intelligent, affectionate and responsive. In 1893, when President Palmer is to bring the boy’s parents over from Spain to Chicago and the Fair, the little Spanish boy will press the electric button that shall set the gigantic engine of the great Exposition throbbing. It will be eminently Siting that this young Spaniard shall open the ceremonies which commemorate the great discovery of his famous countryman four hundred years ago. That much of the programme of the opening ceremonies has been announced.

BABY ON THE BICYCLE.

Tbe Contrivance of a Minneapolis Mother Who Is Fond of a Spin on tiie Wheel. A contrivance that has been seen upon the streets of Chicago and in other cities attracts no little attention. It is the invention of a Minneapolis

MRS. AND MISS LEWIS TAKING A RILE.

lady who had a 2-year-old child that seriously interfered with the indulgence of her fondness for bicycling. By the exercise of a little mechanical ingenuity she overcame all difficulties, and now the little one enjoys an outing with its mother. The contrivance is a seat securely attached in front of the handle bar, in which the child » strapped. Bring up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old just" hear him take all the credit to for

The Best Man in the World.

Well, If not positively the best, one of tbs wisest is be who checks disease at the start In hit owe system. In preserving or restoring the heeveu-granted gift of health, he deserves profound consideration. Hit example is worthy to be imitated. The complaints which afflict us are largely attrlbntable to a want of tone in the stomach, either inherent or inflicted by ourselves upon that much abased repository of the food that should nourish us. What it its requirement in adversity? A wholetome tonic. None so good; if we rely upon experience and testimony, a* Hostetler t btomaoh Bitters. Cnmedicated stimulants won’t do. Kegulation, M well as invigocation of the digestive viscera, Is not to be effected by these. Through the agency of the stomachic named, strength of the entire system is retrenched—dyspepsia and biliousness overcome. Malariel, kidney, bled, der, end rheumatic oomplaints are eradicated by this salutary reformer of ill-health.

Why She Won't Use Coffee.

“I have decided, my dear,” said young Mrs. Simpultun, “never again shall coffee be served upon my table. It is ruining our young men.” “What nonsense, dear,” said Miss Albright. “I tell you it Is so. Dr. Mendel, the groat German scientist, declares that it Intoxicates, and I know he is right.” “Were you ever Intoxicated by Ks” “No, my dear, but I’m sorry to say George is. I have often noticed that whenever he comes homo late with his breath smelliug of coffee he acts like a drunken person, and I have made him promise never to drink coffee at the club again.”

An extraordinary advance in the use of cocoa seems to have taken place of late years In Etfeiund. In the House of Commons, this last session, tbe Right lion. G. J. Goschen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, called attention to it as acauso for much of the falling off oi the use of coffee. Ho attriluted it In a measure, to the position a preparation of cocoa known us “Grateful and Comforting” had taken. In accord with tills suggestion, it may be interesting to follow the course cocoa lias taken in England since 1832, when the duty, which had been standing at6d. per pound, with an importation of under half a million pounds, was reduced to 2d. per pound, and not long after we find the homoeopathic doctrine of medicine introduced luto the kingdom, and that the use of cocoa was specially advocated by physicians udoptlng that mode of practice. Soon after we find the first homoeopathic chemists established in England (the firm of James Epps & Co.) produced a special*:preparation which only needed boiling water or milk to be at onco ready for the table, and the superior charactor of this production has. no doubt, dono im/ch, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer said, to bring about (backed as it was by a further reduction of the duty to Id. per pound) the advance made. Tiikbe is wheat enough in Portland, Oregon, to load fifty-seven ships any to give $2,000,000 to the farmers. The fashion for men to wear wedding rings is greatly on the increaso in En- «. Many a poor slokly child has been saved from the grave by its kind mother giving it Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyers, which the little one thought was candy. It is after he has stolen the apples that, a small boy realizes that switches grow on tho same tree. Beecham’s Pills aot like magio on a Weak Stomach. WnERE do all tho great moa live before they die?

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