This is an article from the 1899 San Francisco Call.
Reminds me a little of the kettle bells you see people swinging around in gyms today. Actually, I think it’s even cooler. The lady is wearing a pretty stylish workout outfit too! Unfortunately, I can’t tell you where to get those pins she’s swinging around. Her’s came from India. (Maybe they’re still available – lots of things haven’t changed much in India in the last hundred years.) Here’s a little of the text that you probably can’t make out here:
THIS is the way to get hungry for breakfast,
said Miss Millar, deftly picking up two Indian
clubs and swinging them lightly over her head.
— “Get up at 7 and try this rotary motion, with varia
tions—like this — and your appetite will be all right
by half past.
Think of it! A half hour’s vigorous exercise before
breakfast every morning! Those who would be
nimble and youthful in spite of Father Time must
forswear the last sweet nap and the leisurely ease of
the rocking chair tor the crisp morning and the
swinging of Indian dubs! So easy to contemplate ?
so hard to do!