WORKING FOR PLEASURE
DANS m TESTS HARDER THAI! SAWiHG WOOD Press Asscciation—By Telegraph—Copyright. HELSINGFORS, July 22. (Received July 23, at 10.30 a.m.) Tests conducted at the university show that a person dancing tho Charleston expends moro energy than a stone mason or a laundress. The tests were carried out with special apparatus. The floor, walls, and ceiling were lined with zinc plates. An analysis of the results shewed that, the waltz was tho least.exhausting of tho modern dances. A person of normal weight expended in an hour sufficient bodily heat to raise live pints of water from freezing to boiling point'. The shimmy, black bottom, and the sehottische consumed between 281 and 333 calories, the fox trot 335, the Charleston 636, ami the mazurka 761. .The,exponents of the mazurka work even harder than a wood sawer, and twice as hard as a stone mason.
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Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 9
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144WORKING FOR PLEASURE Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 9
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