Show tones J jor for or the children chat libat often vf tens ra crue U rue but bever jever N ver ever e air i 1111 Z T T T i r r training the body to be healthy A graceful and well proportioned t B by ALBERTA PLATT T zm t vitt r Y DIAR D Y A R BOYS AND M GIRLS I 1 want to talk to you quite seriously it Is about developing training and exercising all the ul muscles 0 of your bodies bodice so that you ill grow to be healthy handsome and lithe and timber nieland men and women it if you so choose and take the right means to bring brine it about you can continue to be all your lives as active and spry as you are now and I 1 hope with all my heart you will choose it in that case however understand you fiust work for it it la is something richly worth working tor for though I 1 always like to watch girls and boys on the streets or at play I 1 dont like to tell you but I 1 haw have noticed liow how care HOW TO STAND less und and 1510 hy boys ofte ware aro tit in walking they sink their cheats in ili and bow their shoulders over as an if they were a century old in of stepping out in a trini trim erect neat way docs to s out knees firm they fc hanible hamble on oil aa jf if ticy they were pieces and tumbling ull til over them reives vvs hurls ihrl 3 are not so awkward while they are arc little but their clemmi appears later when they put iut on long dresses row few women walk graco grace ully frilly hardly any children aro natum dily lly raffo tul after they have bavo passed baby ui loo of d for that reason all ought to be i trained in gymnastic exercises that will develop every muscle of the body and bring it into use it will not do just to let oneself grow to maturity anyhow and anyway like a crooked tree there are several good systems of gymnastic training one or another of which ought to be s much a part of 0 school instruction as writing or arithmetic the regular military drill which has been introduced into bemo bomo schools Is excellent I 1 have noticed that the boys who have school companies and army drill and uniforms are more inore graceful and have m n ch better muscular movement than those who do not the military drill in school would be all right it if the girls took it too it is meant first of all for muscular development and that girls need quite as 4 11 wa W RUCK NECK AND AIND WAIST MOVEMENTS much as boys why dont the school join tile tho juvenile military companies van lot or it if not that why dont they form drill companies of their own and get a smart pi city uniform 9 there Is t oil L aiom no end of fun in it some women noted for their grace and beauty have declared they owed much ot 0 this fine physical development to the fact that when they were little girls they were put through tile the military drill by a regular army drill sergeant notice the soldiers of 0 the regular army erect with full chests and straight strong legs another tine scheme of 0 physical culture is the german turner system have you noticed what well built strong looking men many of the germans who corne come to this country are it if you ask about it you will vill find they were trained in their boyhood and 0 early arly manhood manhood in the turner gymnasiums in germany and in some parts of america there are turner halls especially pe chilly ally provided for girls and va women onion 0 ep they too may become graceful and athletic another system of physical instruction Is that devised levi in sweden and in use there since 1840 figures have been kept of the results ot of thia gymnastic training and it has been found that since it was inaugurated among the swedes in general tho the average of human life in ili their country has lengthened eight years and a half in other countries of europe this fine J 1 t 0 swedish system ls Is now being adopted with great benant to the health and good looks of 0 both children and grown people it alms ainis to lo cultivate quick light lively movements of tho the body for years many able teachers studied to perfect it tho the pictures here given show tome some of the exercises ilithe in the swedish plan A moat important part of the training Is deep breathing through the nostrils never through the mouth breathing with the mouth open causes catarrh and sore throat dont let yourselves do it under any circumstances I 1 the deep breathing through the no nostrils you can all train yourselves to do stand quite erect in the oven open air with the chest held up tip and inhale slowly wll through both nostrils mouth tight closed then e exhale i le ju just t as af slowly taking the same saine time almo as you did to inhale it if one nostril appears to be closed or clogged press the other on ona shut with your or finger and bre breathe atlie in and out through the clogged one alone times get the deep breathing habit another thing you can at do all alone too Is to keep your spine straight and keep your out knees neer firm when you walk not letting blotting lot ting them them all over the i kingdom dut but if 1 you have no system ot of regu I 1 lar muscle training in your school get your parents and teachers to have a course of instruction started for you twenty minutes a day la Js quite enough to kive to the exercises exercise which ought to be part of your leq lessons sons except that you will enjoy the athletics more than the lessons the timid mouse A mouse was kept in such distress by its fear of a cat that a magician taking pity on it turned ll it into a cat immediately it began to suffer front from fear of a dog so the magician turned it into a hop dog then it began to suffer front from fear of a tiger and the magician in disgust said be a mouse again As you have only the heart of a mouse it Is impossible to help you by giving you the body of a hoble an animal it Is hopeless to try to accomplish anything without pluck do yon know that there thera Is a bird living in brazil which has two sharp claws on each wing and a pointed horn upon its head that the king of portugal has a more valuable crown than any other monarch that the soldiers salute was first used in prussia that most fowls have only four toes but dorking fowls generally have five that humming birds are only found in america |