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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER VOLUME IV. physical Training. Ml'M.KN. UV MAIMXiK KAIM. BKOADLY sK-:i- k inf. tho more understand of education, tin the philosophy nearer to infancy do we iix the time when systematic instruction In fact a child's should begin. education should two generations before it is born. This is particularly true of physical education. I'nfort unately the threat majority of children who most need the advantages of bodily training get the least. In the best private education institutions the throughout country, physical culture gencr-allreceives the attention which .Men its importance demands. exercises. Parents who can afford to semi their children to such an institution have reason to Not congratulate themselves. so, however, with those who send their children to the public schools. Hen;, a few dilatory movements once or twice a day are mistaken for physical training. The conditions of the average schoolroom tends naturally to the impairment of the bodily health. The requirements of the schools demands some-Thinmore than the ordinary system of calisthenics. Too much attention c:iunt be paid to the teaching of physical education in the primary grades. First of all, the instructions should be preventive. The bones of young child-nare particularly soft and earnestly impressed with the had effects of unnatural attitudes: of pressing the chest against and women are employed who the edge of th desk in study- have made a special study of this ing their lessons, sitting with the important branch of education. right shoulder elevated above the lie-in-a- bout y The student ertering the new University school in Cleveland is tirst of all given a thorough nhv-sieexamination by the school physican. Bodily impcrfcclit ns and evil inherited tendencies are noted, and instructions in exerci- al ses specially designed to overcome them are given at once. School hours begin wilh three-quarter- s of an hour of hard studv, succeeded by three quarters of an hour of exhileialing physical public g m 1. 1892. NUMBER. 5 health rules should be inculcated from the beginning. When these matters have received the attention thev merit, then should be given for the expansion of the chest and the strengthen-in- g It is comof the muscles. paratively easy to prevent the formation of bad habits, which lead to physical defects and weakex-ercis- es nesses, but diih'cult to overcome these bad results when they have Health "grown on" the child. is the first perquisite, but that is not all. Many a child is perfectly healthy and yet is so awkward and constrained in his movements as to seriously impede his pro- The pupil should he instructed in the intelligent use of every muscle of his bodv. Physical culture teaches natural gress in life. The1 grace and pupil who has had the ad vantage of this instruction never suffers-frothe embarrassment consequent upon the feeling that he does not know what to do with left in writing, and other bad his hands." or that his feet are pt act ices, only too common. One unduly prominent and entirely of the imxt proliiic sources of useless appendages. The proper uneven si oulders and flattened conservation of the energies is an element in physical chests the using of s either essential too high or too low for the pupil. training. .Many a pupil sitting .School desk and chairs should with feet lirmly pressed against he made adjustable. Serious the supports of his desk, lips curvature of the spine has been tightly compressed and with as known to result from the daily stiffened elbows, will expend much energy in writing a parain desks of at not sitting practice graph a would be required to conformity with the physical saw a cord of wood Tin- Aim ridemands of the pupil. Simple al n Sr Intnl. self-possessio- n. de-k- - |