More About the Breathing Cure.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue VII, 16 February 1901, Page 326

More About the Breathing Cure.

The “breathing cure” seems to have caught on enormously (says an English contemporary). Wherever goes now one hears about it and the beneficial results that ensue. I have not quite grasped what this new treatment is supposed to cure, but it seems that a general improvement in health and appearance is the result, and what will we not do to improve our appearance? The fact that we breathe quite wrongly has been impressed upon us as long as I can remember, and one of the principles of the “cure” is to teach us the correct way to draw our breath. Corsets are dispensed with during the lessons, and one of the exercises is to lie upon the floor and to wave your arms and legs about according to the directions of the teacher—undignified but healthful exercise, no doubt. The lady who has inaugurated this new fad claims for it that it has made weakly people strong, lean people fat, and fat people lean, has straightened crooked back and changed the stooping, slouching carriage that is so disfiguring into the graceful erect deportment that Mr Turveydrop invariably

insisted upon. I have no doubt that “breathing teas” will be all Ithe go this winter, and, as they will relieve the monotony of the ordinary “at home” day, we cannot but feel grateful to the originator of the happy idea.