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Show BODY NOT TO BE SACRIFICED. Physical as Well as Mental Education Demanded. The .man or woman who will train tho mental faculties without any rof-orenco rof-orenco to tho physical, shows a faulty qualification for tho work In which ho or sho may bo engaged, says tho Knoxvllle Journal. Tho mind may bo over so well trained and stored with knowlcdgo of tho books; but unless thero Is behind It a reasonably strong body, llfo runs tho rial, of being a falluro; If not that, an pxistenco of pain that serves as a limitation upon lis possibilities. It Is a species of cruelty to cducato tho mind at tho ox-penso ox-penso of tho body. Ilettor let a child grow up Into manhood or womanhood wom-anhood with an Inferior education than with a better education of tho mind and a body weakened In tho effort. ef-fort. Tho fact, that so many mon In this country havo succeeded in business busi-ness and In professional and public llfo havo been tho sonB of farmers, whoso early llfo has been spent out of doors, hns been a subject of remark; re-mark; may It not bo accounted for on tho ground that In their boyhood tholr physique was developed so that In after llfo, besides tholr mental acquirements, ac-quirements, they had strong bodies with which to do tho work they havo so successfully pel formed? This Is not only possible, but very probable |