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Show mirzErPEiir 15 MIJPJME Wounded Officers Have a Novel Method of Getting Back Into Condition. LONDON, Nov. 20. (Correspondence.) The Associated Press representative was invited this week to pay a visit to a place in London where a number of British Brit-ish officers were engaged in "pinching Zeppelins." At first sight these "Zeppelins" "Zeppe-lins" seem to be Indian clubs. Then you see that they are of leather, and you notice a wire paper-clip at the handle end. The paper-clip holds the mouthpiece mouth-piece of an inflated rubber bag inside the leather Indian club. These "Zeppelins" are found in the gymnasium of a. hospital workshop where convalescent officers are trying to regain the use of their hands and fingers. The officers sit in ostensible idleness with one of the "Zeppelins" In the injured hand. They appear to hold them anyhow, any-how, some by one end, some by the other. Hut In fart they are all the time "plnch-Btit "plnch-Btit In fact they are all the time "pinch-i "pinch-i ing" them. They are working their stif-! stif-! fened fingers continually on the Inflated rubber clubs, first at the thin end, and then as their fingers get more open and supple, moving up and up to the thick end. It is an odd sort of gymnasium. Like a camouflage factory, it is full of things that are not what they seem, and men are working hard who appear to be doing nothing. All around the room are odd pieces of apparatus I hat look like horizontal hori-zontal bard for children of two to five years old, equipped with curious ropes "and bars and pulleys. At these men labor ! who have injured wrists or forearms. In another part of the room is a great polished plank, on two supports, screwed firmly to the floor. It moves up and down a groove of the supports and is held In by iron pegs. At first the visitor vis-itor in uncertain whether it is an impossibly impos-sibly massive lumping apparatus or a gallows. Tt is for the training of wenk-: wenk-: ened shoulders and arms, the patient sitting sit-ting under it and drawing himself up and , down. At the far end of the room is a great ship's wheel fastened to the blank wall. : A man stands in front of It, swinging it j , over1 and back again, steering the unaeen ! ship on the most erratic course that a ship ever sailed. Then he comes to the side of the wheel and hand over ha ml j pulls it over fifty or a hundred times. The observer has a vision of a frenzied ship going round and round in n continually contin-ually diminishing circle. But there is no ship attached to that wheel. The man has shoulder joints and muscles to be loos- , ened; that is all. |