INDOOR EXERCISE.
Sp:irrillg is perhaps the hest of indoor games. It is a most admirable exercise. It use; all the muscles of all parts of the body. The swaying of the trunk, the quick movements required in all the leg muscles, the variety of moveutellts about the arms, neck, back, and heath, all keep the muscles in good condition and late circulation, respiration, and good digestion. But in addition to this it can be seen that no one who is boxing can give much thought or tion to his or to anything but the game in hand. It needs only a straight blow on the nose to wake up the delinquent and make him eive his undivided attention to the matter in hand. Here is a game that in many ways passes bicyeling as a means to physieal culture, while bicycling, on the other hand. has the one advantage of taking the individual out of door:. Wrestling has many of the good of ring and as such is a good form of physical ture. Yet here the teacher is more necessary than in most :zanies. danger of straining muscles and weakening tendons is very "Teat. since a contest i; of course necessary, the desire for victory prevents one ur the other of the combatants from giving up when a strain beeomes the penalty for not doing so. Vet both these games develop all parts of the body equally and thoroughly.
1Zackets, court tennis, and handball are all ital indoor games. They employ the mind and can be undertaken for halfam a day ly at a certain time. The disadvantage in therm over such exercises as sparring is that they velop one sidle of the kaly to the detrinteut of the other. A player. for exampls, is constantly using his right arm with the ractpiet, and thus develops his Wilide right side without bringing the left side into play to any great tent. Naturally the eireulation, the tion, and the general relaxation of both mind and body go on, but the muscular development needs some specific exercise for the left side after the game is over, if the normal of physical ture is to be attained.
Penning also has the same ment, yet it adds the ease and gnnee of which make it one of the most valuable means of physical vulture for women that enn den trued under cover of a Like ,ingli, stick and the mane forms of offense and defense with a weapon. it really has qualities that few gnu es ran boast. The agility. quiekness. grace. and jiur.c.ce that are required have to do with physical culture in its highest sense.