Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — Helpful Beauty Hints [ARTICLE]

Helpful Beauty Hints

, Games and Out-Door Exercise for Developing the Symmetry and Grace of the Figure are Receiving Attention Fencing Recommended by a Physician.

Fencing ta receiving an Impetus just now because of the Interest which prominent professional and business men are taking In the pastime. They found it just the proper thing for an ex.ercise. It brings Into play a mild form of exertion which is more effective ttian club juggling, weight lifting, dumb-bell calisthenics or the other common forms of exercise, and it Is not go strenuous M handball, racquets, squash, jumping, swimming or other more tiring forms of sport Dr. Frank is one of the oldest exponents of the pastime in the city. He regards It as helpful to the young as well as the old, to the women as well as the men.

“Fencing combines every virtue provided in other sports of a more strenuous and perhaps spectacular nature,” said Dr. Fignk. “It Is grace personifled, and with the brutality and violence of some of the other popular sports eliminated, 4t furnishes the same degree of excitement and fascination.

“Fencing does got develop the hard, knotty muscles of the pugilist and exponents of other more violent sports, but Instead it retains the rounded and shapely muscles, only developing them and giving them grace. “Women who wtdh to preserve their physical charms must be careful of the exercise they adopt No pastime brings more muscles into action than fencing for the fair sex.

“It does not require unusual strength to be a fencer. To commence with, the heart must be good. If this organ be diseased, fencing should not be the chosen exercise. There are other exercises that may be selected, but my advice to the professional or business man who must use his brain power and at the same time retain his physical strength Is to adopt the genteel, graceful and invigorating pastime of fencing.”—Chlcao Inter Ocean.