Waists Grow Smaller

The Effect of Gymnastic Training on Young Ladies 

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SHOULDERS ARE BROADER

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Chests Fuller and Lung Capacity Greater but Waists Measure After a Years Training at Least An Inch Less

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The college girls are becoming smaller waisted. This fact is not due to corsets or any mechanical appliances, but to gymnastic work, and is shown by the actual measurements of the young ladies taking work in the Barbour gymnasium. The charts are kept on the Barr system and 50 measurements are taken. The charts show that after a year's gymnastic work the waists are invariably smaller, the shoulders are broader, the arms larger and better rounded and the lung capacity much greater. 

Dr. Alice G. Snyder, the woman's athletic director, attributes the smaller waists to the teaching of a more correct position of standing, while the stimulus to the nervous system and circulation increases the lung capacity ith the shoulder and chest measurements. 

One chart picked up at random, showed that the young lady whose measurement was taken had a decrease of one inch in the waist measurement, but her shoulders were half an inch broader and her lung capacity had increased from 193 to 230 inches. 

There is no question but what the gymnasium is doing much for the good health of the young lady students.