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cannot be carried on without a proper, and due propor- 

 tion of corporeal activity, even in adults ; and it is well 

 known that youth require much more action than their 

 parents, in order that the several functions of the ani- 

 mal fabric may be properly developed, and ultimately 

 gain their most perfect condition. And who had not 

 much rather see his child return home from school with 

 a little less algebra, and a good stock of health, than to 

 know that she had outdone her class mates, and obtain- 

 ed the highest prizes, while the pallid cheek, and the 

 crooked, emaciated frame, shows that this has been 

 done at the expense of her health i 



Boys may run through the streets, play ball, skate, 

 snow-ball, fish and hunt, while the fate of the poor girls 

 is fixed, and bound down to the sedate, and measured 

 walk, and this only for a short distance, and at stated 

 times. And still the girls require full as much exercise 

 as their brothers. It is true, as will be seen in another 

 place, that the dress of females is far more pernicious in 

 its consequences, than that of the males ; and hence in 

 a degree, undoubtedly, we may account for the greater 

 number of deaths by consumption in the former, than 

 among the latter. But is it not to be feared that in ma- 

 ny instances, a predisposition to consumption is acquired 

 in females in early youth, in consequence of the want of 

 those wholesome sports which the boys enjoy ? And is 

 it not the duty of parents and teachers to look to this sub- 

 ject especially, and see whether there is not a prevailing 

 error in this respect ? 



Remarks of the Rev. Dr. Dick.. The Rev. Dr. Dick, 

 in his excellent work on Mental Illumination, has some 

 good remarks on the subject of school exercises for the 



" Pupils of every description," says he, " should be 

 daily employed in bodily exercises, for invigorating their 

 health and bodily powers. Every school should have a 

 play ground for this purpose, as extensive as possible, 

 and furnished with gymnastic apparatus for exercising 

 the muscular activities of the young of both sexes. 

 Swings, poles, hoops, see-saws, pulleys, balls, and similar 

 articles, should be furnished for enabling them to engage 



