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Show Nervous? Need Paddling. It is considered beuefivial to be whipped or "spanked," provided it is done mechanically. In the mechanotherapy mechano-therapy departments of up-to-dute institutions, in-stitutions, the "whipping post," a mechanical me-chanical device for therapeutic puddling, pud-dling, Is an accredited heullng machine. ma-chine. J l'ou are whipped by straps of heavy cloth or leather attached to two rapidly rapid-ly revolving posts. When you take the treatment you step backward into the flying whips and receive theh blows upon your legs, buck, abdomen or chest, depending upon the ma-lady from which you are suffering. The Impact of the straps is Just sufficient suf-ficient to set the blood In free circulation. circula-tion. There is no smarting, stinging sensation because the straps are broad enough to eliminate any possibility of a cutting blow. You are paddled rather rath-er than lashed. The "whipping post" is valuable In many types of nervousness. nervous-ness. Popular Science. |