CHARLESTON TESTS
DANCING HARD WORK REMARKABLE COMPARISONS 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) HELSINGFORS, July 22. Tests conducted at the University, show that a person dancing the Charleston, expends more energy than a stone mason, or a laundress. The tests were carried out with a. special apparatus, the floor, walls and ceiling were lined with zinc plates hermetically sealed. An analysis of the results showed that the waltz was the least exhausting of modern dances. A person of normal weight expends in an hour sufficient bodily heat to raise five pints of water from freezing to boiling point. The Shimmy, Black Bottom, and the Schottische consumed between 281 and 333 calories; Fox Trot 335; Charleston 536; Mazurka 761. Exponents of the latter work even harder than a wood sawer, and twice as hard us a stone mason.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1927, Page 7
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