SOUND BODIES 



twenty-minute contest on the wrestling-mat (preferably 

 at catch-as-catch-can style); the preceding forty min- 

 utes having been devoted to weights and pulleys and 

 punching-bag, and three or four two-minute rounds 

 with the boxing gloves: it being understood, of course, 

 that you have worked up gradually to the physical 

 condition of "fitness" that will enable you to carry 

 through such a strenuous hour without distress or ex- 

 haustion. 



Dripping with perspiration, your skin aglow, your 

 heart beating with full vigor, your lungs expanded to 

 their full capacity with every breath, you step from the 

 gymnasium floor into a hot room; thence, five or ten 

 minutes later to the spray-bath, first of water hot as 

 you can bear it, gradually toning down to the coldest 

 degree from which your system will react vigorously. 



Follow this with a good massage or a dry or alcohol 

 rubbing, and you will step forth from the gymnasium 

 rejuvenated. 



You may think it difficult to find time for such a 

 daily experiment. You will surely lack energy to 

 undertake it if your muscles are out of trim. But 

 once you have known the benefits of such a practise, 

 you will need no one to tell you that you save time by 

 it in the end, through adding infinitely to your sense of 

 well-being, your avidity for work, and your capacity 

 for sustained effort. 



But all this must not be taken to imply that the field 

 of utility of physical exercises has no bounds. And 

 here, as in so many other instances, I cannot well leave 



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