128 = On Scientific Physical Training, ete. 
viz., the foil, the single-stick, the sword, the lance, the 
bayonet, and also wrestling. 
There is a third part of gymnastics also based on the 
educational branch, called “ esthetic gymnastics.” It means 
the application of movements of the human body for the 
expression of our feelings and ideas. I hope on some 
future occasion to present your numerous readers with 
drawings which show the attitudes of the body under the 
influence of different states of mind. Feelings of sympathy 
or kindness, affection and attention, have all oval lines; 
antipathy, anger, pride, and all bad passions, are shown by 
angular lines. Other drawings represent the attitudes in 
prayer, the arms being extended, and the hands raised in 
proportion te the fervency of the prayer. Some show the 
position of a person who ts thinking; the natural position 
is, the head leaning slightly forward while the arms are 
crossed; in this drawing the head is more inclined, and 
appears to rest on the finger placed near the chin. Where 
there is deep meditation, the head is leaning still more 
forward and rests on the hand. I point these out just 
to show in what way rational gymnastics may be made 
useful. | 
There is another purpose to which these figures may be 
applied, and that is, the training of blind people. Blind 
people are very much neglected. In the institutions I 
have visited, I find their chests very weak, and suffering 
from many complaints. As we have no other means for 
their instruction, I have made use of models, and I find 
they answer very well. In the city is pubhshing a series of 
these figures in papier-maché for the object of teaching 
blind people. In order to give another impulse to the 
introduction of these simple exercises, the same firm are 
publishing engravings of these figures in the form of a 
game for children, so that they can be applied in schools 
where they have no apparatus to entice the children to do 
these exercises. 
