SOUND BODIES 



soon develops. He then gets pleasure as well as benefit 

 from his exercise, and the pleasure adds directly to the 

 benefit, for pleasure in itself has positive disease-dis- 

 pelling power. Not only will his muscles be trained, 

 but his eye and his brain. He will learn the value 

 of steady persistent effort as he can hardly learn it 

 elsewhere. He will be taught self-reliance even while 

 his egotism is kept healthfully in check. As his physical 

 movements become quick, graceful, adapted to effect 

 their ends with the least practicable expenditure of 

 energy, his mental movements will tend to keep pace 

 with the physical. In short, his training in athletics 

 will bring about a coincident mental development 

 that will stand him in hand in the class-room or study, 

 and in the practical affairs of life. 



As to the specific forms of athletic contests, I need 

 not speak in detail. If you live in the country, tennis 

 and golf, supplemented perhaps by rowing and riding, 

 will supply the means for a splendid all-round develop- 

 ment. For the city-dweller, these open-air sports are 

 for the most part unavailable ; for him the gymnasium 

 must take the place of court and links. 



The best gymnasium sports are handball, wrestling, 

 and boxing. 



Each of these calls into play every set of muscles; 

 but it is desirable to practise all three if you would secure 

 an even all-round development. It is well to supple- 

 ment them also with such exercises as are supplied by 

 pulleys, dumb-bells, horizontal bars, and the various 

 similar gymnasium appliances, and in particular by 



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