Daily Dose of Dr. Odd: Physcial Culture, 1920, Part II: Women & Cigarettes

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This is a continuation of the Health-into-the-Future post--for MEN!--brought to modernity in 1920 or so via your friendly neighborhood tobacco conglomerate.  Yes, these are tobacco cards, given away with a pack of smokes, and were intended in their coy way to try and keep the smoker living longer tobacco-filled lives--after all, the longer a smoker lives, the more they can smoke, and so it was to the producers' benefit to keep their subjects both loyal and healthful. [Source:  New York Public Library Digital Collections, here.]

Exercise 1. For the thigh muscles.

Exercise 2. For loosening the shoulders and imp

Exercise 3. For slimming the waist.

Exercise 4. For the waist.

Exercise 5. For the legs generally.

Exercise 6. For generally loosening the body.

Exercise 7. For the knee joints and abdomen.

Exercise 8. For the hips, trunk and thighs.

Exercise 9. For the hips, and lower back.

Exercise 10. To attain suppleness.

Exercise 11. Stretching leg and thigh muscles.

Exercise 12. For the leg muscles.

Exercise 13. For the abdomen.

Exercise 14. For the hips.

Exercise 15. For the sides of the hips.

Exercise 16. For the thighs and the trunk.

Exercise 17. For flexing leg muscles.

Exercise 18. For the neck and spine.

Exercise 19. For increasing the bust.

Exercise 20. For that "gone in" feeling.

Exercise 21. To give your back a beautiful curb

Exercise 22. Trunk exercise.

Exercise 23. Exercise for the back.

Exercise 24. Shoulder exercise.