Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — Dancing for Health. [ARTICLE]

Dancing for Health.

Long ago some ingenious arithmetician discovered the exact amount of ground covered by the average dancer in the course of an evening, and the votaries of the dance are now suggesting that dancing should be revived as a hygienic exercise. Nowadays men and girls show great eagerness to take up any pastime or sport which gives them exercise, and, as we all know, dancing has somewhat lost its vogue, which, from a social point of view, is much to be regretted. Let some of the fashionable doctors recommend their dyspeptic, anaemic-patients of both sexes to waltz as much as possible, giving themselves on an average the equivalent in terpsichorean exercises of at least thirty miles’ walk a week, and we shall see a wonderful revival in dancing.—Philadelphia Ledger.