SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT YXERCISES.
To go thoroughly this large branch of phvsieal eulture would be impossible here. It is howeVen, to lines of work. The and are so monoto tams that they do not occupy the mind, and they therefore lose a part of their force as means to ward physical culture. The punching bag, on the faller haml, is really a game which is played with an inanimate but very vigorous adversary. Again, however, it is necessary to :1(1(1, in order to preserve a proper sense of proportion, that this is not equal to a game out of doors in the daytime and never will be: but them on the other hand., it is so news better than nothing that it often means in so many words the difference be tween health and sickness. in like manner might be catalogued the apparatus of the gymnasium in the miler of their desirability, such as row ing machines, parallel bars, pulley-weights, and so on. They all have their uses; they can all be set up in any private house, and they are all of service in maintaining health when nothing Letter can be had. Their use is precisely and only this: Exereise must be taken regularly every day in some form to stimulate circulation and res piration; exercise must be given the mind along other lows than those followed in daily life. Either the home or the club gymnasium will be better than nothing, as a little regular exercise day by day of whatever kind is better than none it all. One other method offers itself fur general consideration and that. too, is better than nothing. Yet it requires what is found only here and there in mankind—the capacity for absolute regularity day by day, every ay of every year. There seems to he something in the Inman make-up that militates against regularity. and in the least benefieial amt yet easiest of of physical culture regularity is the whole story. Forms of exercise without the use of apparatus are best suggested by the riffled :states Army selling-up exerrises. They include the Swedish sysfrin, the Delsarte system, and all the other innumerable limns of setting-up ex ercises which have been invented. In considering
these. Iwo very different points of view must be considered. f1) If a portion of the body is than all other portions—for example, if a broken leg. now healed. needs special attention to bring the long unused muscle, up to standartl of exercise ought to he taken under the advice of a physical culture instructor, since a thorough knowledge of anatomy is needed to point out just Mut exercises are most (2) If the maintenance of general health is de sired. then no teacher or instructor is at all necessary. It only needs to consider the muscles of I he body. For example, la-fore bathing, lie on Maw on your back and (t) rise to a sitting position twenty times: (2) raise the legs to a perpendicular position twenty times; (3) turn over, and. tonehing only the toes and hands to the floor, thrust the body upward by straightening the arms twenty times; (4) stand up. and, keep ing the legs straight, bend forward and touch the fingertips to the floor twenty times; (5) rise on the toes twenty times; (6) keeping the body straight and upright, bend the knees and sink down toward the door twenty times, rising again by straightening the legs: (7) take hold with one hand of the end of a door and grasp other the door frame when the door itself has been opened about one-quarter of a quadrant ; standing thus, allow the bash' to fall for ward so that the chest passes through the opening and the shoulders are thrust far back until the shoulder-blades touch: do this twenty times: (8) place the hands on the ups, straight, and then bend forward as far as possible twenty times, backward twenty times, to the right side twenty times, to the' left twenty times: (9) standing straight, go through—twen ty times each—the motions of raising the arms at full length above the head, backward, forward, and down. When a child or youth or a young girl is in question the advice of an expert is, of course. almost necessary.