DR HALL’S CALISTHENICS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 148, 24 November 1874, Page 3

DR HALL’S CALISTHENICS.

Dr Hall says those people who are troubled with cold feet at bedtime should bend over and smartly clap the calves of their legs for about live minutes. This struck a young man who boards in Essex street to he about as sensible a piece of advice as he ever heard. So it put it to the test after disrobing himself on Saturday night. He bent over, and pounded away at himself, and all the time made a noise with his mouth, like the hiss of escaping steam. This noise attracted the .attention of one of the hoarders, and he told the landlady that there must he a fire in that room because he could hear it sizz, and could hear an altired snapping and popping going on in there. The landlady didn’t pause to argue. She caught up a pail and plunged for the place at once. The boarder followed with a gigantic clothes brush. Both of them precipitated themselves into the room together. The advent was so sudden that the Boarder who was warming himself had no chance to dodge. And there was too much momentum, to the landlady and the other boarder to permit them to recover themselves in time. So there was a collision. The landlady saw it coming, and instinctively held the pail in front of her. But the disciple of Hall didn’t see it, as his hack was to the door and his head nearly to the floor, and before he could look up, on hearing the door fly open, the visitors were on him, and the contents of the pail over him, and the three, with pail and clothes-brush, came down in a crash together. How the landlady extricated herself and got out of that room as quick as she did will always remain a mystery to the two men who stood there and glared at each other for some fifteen minutes.