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Show Skipping the Rope as a tnre. . Skipping rope exercises for middle-aged middle-aged gentlemen affected with "liver" or indigestion is the latest alleged medical fad to which the humorists of the press have directed their attention. atten-tion. The London correspondent of the Gazette asserts that this novel form of adult exercise is being used on rainy mornings as a substitute for the mile and a half run before breakfast, break-fast, which has been prescribed by a west end physician as a remedy for that condition of the liver which In London is due to want of outdoor exercise ex-ercise and late hours, hard work and bad air. There are professional men and others who take their run in the park before breakfast every fine morning morn-ing and who bless the good physician who discovered this simple way of restoring re-storing health. Its effects in some cases have been marvelous. By "run" is not meant a sharp walk, but' actual running. Birmingham Gazette. |