Show 0 0 Pep Gil m- m me e r The start of the Angry Cat Cal exer exer- Rai cise cie in n which the exerciser exerciser gets geb down r ron on her hand hands and knees knee and with v vt Ay her ber head lowered in just F t the attitude pussy P c tF Which You t when her temper u ia roused and she ahe i is about to get a lx her back backup up Then the 4 fig rt spine pine i is flexed lint fast up r rand P r e ets ts i ia a i i ia iK a K 4 i l and then down exactly a as cats cafe do to show how their 4 anger Thi This exercise i he Move one that is highly recommended mended for the muscles muade r iwi za of the abdomen and those p and d dr r 1 i supporting the ap spinal nal J I column 1 1 i 1 r ire FAA x I Attitudes of P t 1 Different I t t F w RYA ear 0 Birds and pA r J r 7 a Yea W t c p Ge 9 r Sir T inT 6 S w x Jq ruM Y Beasts in Pw v Jo w ea ear t r r ig x Keeps Your Fx HE lIE latest way to pep and beauty Is 1 i THE through a unique series aeries of exer- exer exercises exercises k exer-k- ekes devised by the tho experts expert In charge of physical training In the gym gym- gymnasiums gym I of the Young Women's Chris ChrIs- ChrIstIan Christian Christian tian Association 1 Some of the thousands of girls who r are aro profiting by these exercises ha havo vo christened them zoo too stunts or me me gymnastics Either Eith er of these names Is quite appropriate foe the ex- ex exercises exercises ex exercises do tike tAke the girls straight back to nature and bring into action various muscles which they are prone to neglect but which their animal friends keep In Inconstant inconstant inconstant constant use Each of the scores of different exer- exer exercises exer exercises comprised in this system has haa been named for the animal in the zoological perk park or circus menagerie whose stride or attitude or playful contortions It is thought to resemble There are arc the discouraged bear the creeping liz lii-ard lii ord ard the spread eagle and so on through a long lilt list of birds beasts and reptIles The Tho amusing novelty of these names namu is of course merely incidental and thereal the thereal thereal i real value alue alue of the tho system of physIcal training rests on something more serious I and more soundly scientific The one great advantage of the eye eye- system system I tem tern lies lire in the fact that it includes ex exercises ex- ex exercises ex- ex exercises designed to meet the needs of every girl and young women woman A girl does not have to attempt all the tho various arlous zoo stunts Including many for her particular body has no need Instead she applies herself only 0 o those will remedy her special lacks inthe in III inthe the way of muscular efficiency Before taking up the zoo stunts you must find out Just which of your muscles I are undeveloped or becoming deteriorated deteriorated deteriorated rated through the kind of work or play you ou follow day after day This is il don donby I by means of a careful physical examina examina- examination examination yourI tion anda and a test and measurement of your J I muscles When this Inventory of your strength and weakness is complete the tho gymnastic instructor who oho has made it is able abis to say just which of the zoo stunts you should take up to bring you Into the tho best beet phy physical leal trim in tho the shortest po possible poa time Perhaps only one of the novel exer exercises will be bo assigned you perhaps there will 11 be as many as three or four of them the m abich you must practice faithfully sev sev- several several f eral oral times a day Only in very rare cases Is a girl so defective muscularly that allor all or nearly all the zoo stunts are prescribed for her If you suffer from that tired bred feeling you may be told to emulate the pee pee- peeVIsh pe peevish e- e VIsh pussy once a day arching your you r back first one way and then the other to Improve your our muscle tone and an d I strengthen the tho muscles of your back c If your circulation is poor you dont don't don t have to bother with all the exercises i ithe In n r- r rJ J i the you catalogue catalogue you just concentrate on o n w cIrculation Perhaps you'll be told to act ee like a rooster at sunrise every morning e flapping your our bent elbows and lettin g your head go backward and crowing if Ii you feel like it after seven or eight Im- Im ImprOVIng fm improving prOVIng flaps The exercises are for both young and an anold amold d old and there is believed to be one In Inthe i ithe n the list to meet every requirement of o f womanly health and Ind beauty I Many of the girls who go to the tho Y W WiC Ie C A A gymnasiums are looking for effi- effi efficIency em in verve business business verve vim pep what what- whatever whatever whatever V ever you OU wish to call It And they find findt fin fint d t t It now by doing the particular zoo zo o f f stunts that are assigned them The new system of exercises will d do o p quite as much for a girls girl's good looks ar aI as a ai e r I for her liar health and capacity for success success- successful successful ful work cork ork The now new styles are not calculated to hide the figure as liS was sae as the case caso wIth grandmothers grandmother's rows and ros row ro s of flounces Nowadays you ou can tell at a glance whether a girl is ie well put together Only girls whose muscles are well developed Sican can wear to advantage the t straight artistic lines Imes of frocks frock of Eg Egyptian simplic- simplic simplicity simplic-ity simplic ity It Round shoulders a hollow hol hollow hol- hol hollow low che chest t anda and a lax carriage cnn can no longer be hidden Many modern girls are they ha hate hale e used weed their muscles like theIr brothers and tl they ey have found artificIal props unnecessary For or the girl who who has not been able ablo to attain this degree de degree de- de degree gree of freedom the zoo stunts are the very thing Simple clinging silk Bilk frocks frocks Innocent of ruffles and draperies are aro coming into style If you cant can't carry yourself straIght and yet feel natural you had better enroll In a Y W IV C A gInna gymnasium gymnasium slum and borrow from the animal world some of its muscular grace and poise Sandals are coming In this season Do you ou know that the wearing tearIng of high heels may ba have ve shortened the tendons of the leg so ea that you wont won't be able to walkin a elk all elkIn In sandals gracefully What has been nicknamed the crab canter is just the thing to remedy this difficulty You just walk around your room on all fours keeping the tha elbows and knees straight You step forward with the hand and foot on one side first then the hand and foot toot on tho th theother other sidling side side about like a crab on the tho beach It If everything is in good shape except the leg tendons that la Is the only exercise you have to do After a few weeks of that you can wear the most extreme extremo sandals on tho market Just market just a II sole and ono one strap as AI some of them seem to be A peep into Inte a Y W C A gymnasium nowadays reveals some sights rivaling a scene in the jungle No Its It's not an anan anan an insane asylum the instructor may have to explain its just the tho girls doing some of their zoo stunts Theres There's noth- noth nothIng nothing ing like them for individual develop Clop development ment elop ment The young lady on all fours four humpIng her back is 18 doing the angry cat to make her back muscles flexible and improve im- im improve prove provo her muscle tone She finds that it gets rid of that tired feeling which has been bothering her in the afternoons afternoons after- after afternoons at the office She continues humping her back How realistically feline she sho Isi is I Everything E except the meow Down on all fours fours she goes first humping her back up with her her head down and then raising railing her head as aa she ahe curves her spine spino the other way convexly After a few weeks of this tIlls exel she will sill III be able to sit at her typewriter for a o week of days without an ache echo or pain in the once troublesome back and heir he digestion will be perfect The whole trick is in using the muscles of the back which the pussy cat uses every day as a a II matter of course and whIch the stenographer absolutely never uses even though she may feel just lust like III it when she gets cross The girl on the other othor side of the gym gymnasium who is 1 s lolling around with her heed head down and her arms arras hanging like those great fat tat bears at the tha zoo who arc are too lazy to look up i dom dome doing the tho discouraged bear to relax That exercise sounds good doesn't it c o yourself b by loafing about Just flop down down down until you flop on the floor in an ecstacy of aimless aimless- r Muscles W in V Healthy Vigor Vigor- Vigorous a ar arx ara x a f fi h ous Condition x t thet On the left the ther Bicycling Ba- Ba Baboon Ba 01 r tt 0 t t t boon a another A 7 exercise for t c cp p strengthening the abdominal muscles M a ac c k rTh 1 c s y ya a r rr t The exercise Th Theay The eay Creeping d which the P c girls in the beneficial gymnasiums and lots have nick of theof fun a named the aged ged Bear a r ms i M t tF F e q fp a J 5 y A 4 my r ii 1 1 4 n J Jn 1 h he hr r N J 4 y a tar The Th e finish a zt i i it t b 1 i j gaA a i of the Die Dis t a r rM Bear i t ts s r x M exercise with the muscles completely relaxed out which w wp cannot maintain a healthy H Heres Here's eres ere's the attitude you take take when condItion Some Somo of these muscles JiN JiNa are tx as a about to transform yourself into Inlo a vItal to health absolutely our s 's 3 rl gay T Tumbling wn bl mg T Terrier The abdomInal muscles which play lay an r as yr 2 legs lega and her he The n finish r i- i it of t 1 tho Tumbling T- T Tir r i-r T Terrier head can call hard bard which is not so 0 o easy ly Iy be seen It et Hook looks as The ness nesa Its It's an exercise e just the same and Its It's just what hot many girls need need-e need need p those nen nervous ous tense ones who have forgotten how to let themselves go Another young oung woman who wishes to tobe tobe tobe be lithe and much moie mOle graceful than she is lies on a mat and twists the upper part of herself hersell slowly lowly from one side tide to fo othe the other helping herself around with the tips of her fingers as the little short short legged lizard does She She is the creep ing lizard of this show This zoo stunt strengthens her abdominal i muscles muscle and gets rid of that slouchy appearance which has gone out of style The terrier tumble is one of the most difficult of the stunts One doesn't do that right away It away it takes time tImo to acquIre the necessary flexibility In the second part of the exercise the person doing It doesn't look like liko anything at atall she all she is just a tangle of arms andI and I can this stunt perfectly for he is as flexible as a piece of whalebone Girls who ho have become proficient in curling themselves up and rolling roiling over backward say there is nothing like lile it for strengthening the tha muscles One of the nicest things about havinga having a pet exercise e Is la that while t hIle it fatigues you after awhile it doesn't hurt and lell leaves lelles es no disagreeable effects niter And If it is the exorcise exe you ou need it will aill III do you a world of good Rational exercising the Y W C A girl hn e ha e found does not produce sOle ness soie-ness sole sole- ness nus or stiffness By rational exel cIse is meant that which is properly suited to tho the individuals individual's need The idea that an exercise must hurtin hurt hurtin hurtin in order to be effective is as wrong as the idea that medicine must have a dis- dis disagreeable dis agreeable taste or unpleasant odor to tobe tobe tobo be effective The Y W C A gymnasium in- in instructor instructor watches her trained human am- am ants mals carefully to see that the they do the exercIse properly Doing them the wrong way might be more harmful than not doing them at all over there Stop flying she will call It U the eagle is swooping about the gym with a harmful forward for bend rather than keeping herself straight as she goes from from side to sIde with her finger tips touching the floor first on one side and then the other The bicycling baboon in the the- corner seems to be poorly trained Keep up against the wall baboon is the the gIven her again agam and again agam She is im- im improvIng improving im improving proving her tendons calf-tendons so she can wear sandals comfortably and incIdentally by moving her feet up and an down gamst against the tho side wall with the tho motion of a bicycle rider working the pedals All fat girls love lovo this bIcycling stunt because it really makes the vanIsh effectively effe Our work often eliminates the use of II a a great muscle s system with with- important part not only in the diges diges- digestIOn digestion diges- diges digestion tion but in m maintaining an upright po position po- po position are for instance often weakened by sedentary habits of work When these muscles deteriorate through lack of activity the they cause the individual to stand in a weak and very unattractive posItion By going going- back to the tM animals theY the Yr Yi W C A girls are striking at the very root of their individual weaknesses They are exercising the Jarge Jarga arge muscles of their bodies bodlos in m natural ways that are practIcally never afforded by the kind of work they do or even by their ways of amusing themselves outside of working hours bours Sonic Some experts on ph physical educatIon believe that after the age of tv twenty enty years an hoar hodr should be given daily dally by the IndIvIdual to motor recreation as exercises are arc called These exercises should bring into play the large muscles of the body and there should be a variety of them as in the case casa of the zoo stunts large largo enough to suit luit every Indi- Indi Individual indi individual vidual victual need l v |