Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-12-04

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s'ant sensation of chillness, and liabii.
y to injury from the slightest exposure.
Exercise is indispensable to health.
1t will be particularly agreeable to
some OF my young friends to know, that
VI Combe insists that they ought not to
De confined for many successive hours TO
'neir studies and books, but that their en-
Payments should be varied and interrupt
eta!' oy proper intervals of cheerful and ex-
nhafatIng exercise, such as is derived
from social, active games.
Active sports, as means of exercise.
are greatly superior to merely measured
movements | have been told, that the
benevolent Spurzheim produced a great
reform IN Boston, by persuading the
mothers to permit their daughters 10 drive
Their hoops up and down their beautiful
Mall, instead of taking formal walk
there
Young children, if in health, will ex-
erclse at any rate; but girls, from eleven
to fourteen, and so on through life, will
sometimes insist that they do not feel so
well Tor walk! Study the structure of
your frames, and you will not again COM
mn, M! the Jolly OF maintaining an impossi-
blity.
But to feel the better for your walk, or
any other exercise, it must be taken in
proper time and quantity. If you are in
health, you may exercise with benefit at
any time, except Immediately after full
meal, or when exhausted by long fast.
A walk or ride before breakfas will ex
hlIarate person in health, bat will ex-
haust an invalid, and spoil the pleasure of
the whole day.
The best time for exercise, for those
who do not get it from their empIoyments.
is In the forenoon, from three, four or five
hours after moderate meal. Ii should,
if possible, be taken in the open air. 1t
should be OF nature to occupy the mind
as we'll as the body.
When you know that exertion awaits
you Immediately after eating, YOU should
take very moderate meal. In travelling
In stage coach, or on railroad, where
your regular meals are interrupted, and
little repose is allowed. this precaution is
invaluable.
Persons lose half the benefit of that
grand renovator, travelling, by mistakinq
WEAKNESS and exhaustion for hunger, and
giving the stomach work to do when il
requires rest
Dr. Combe SAYS. Il observed this when
travelling as an invalid on rather low d.
ct, and was surprised to find myself less
fangued at the end of seventy-two hours,
than had been when in health and Iiv-
ing fully. with half the journey. | have
heard the same remark made by others
also, from experience
; 1t is the custom in schools. and in ma
ny families, to take the children out at the
close of day, when there is not LIGHT
enough to do any thing in the house,
This is mistaken economy. In the first
place, exercise once day is insufficient
for the young, and the air is then loaded
with moisture, colder, and more unhealthy
than at any other time, and the absence Of
the beneficial stimulus of the solar Eobt.
dImInlshes the invigorating influence of
exercise
If you select the forenoon for your ex-
erclse, and you lose it, you may find an
other hour before night 1t is far better
10 encounter rain, with India rubbers and
an umbrella, Chose blessed defences y
than to remain in doors all day.
Different kinds of exercise suit differ
ent persons. Some of you may have a
local infrmity that incapacitates you for
walking. You can then resort to riding,
Horseback exercise is exciting to the spir-
( its Active SPORTS says our friend DR..
Combe, ARE infinitely preferable 10 dull
undressing walks DR.. Combe must
, allude to walks in the city. Why should
ae0Ik IN the country ever be dull and IN
interesting, because objectlcss. To say
nothing of berrying party in delicious
: summers afternoon, OF a nutting frolic in
fresh autumnal day; you may have
some errand TO do, some friend to call I'D.
on, some sick person to bless with al leas
a kind look. some visit of love or mercy
to pay. And if you have not these. YOU
may wander through wood, or force
: your way through the tangled shrubbery
that frlnges some dismal swamp 10 snatch
: the flowers that are hidden there q,
3 you may mount a hill to see valley
i mountain, and lakes, glow in the parting
rays of the sun. Need a walk be dul
!, and embarrassing?
}, Dancing is cheerful and useful exer
u else; but in heated rooms, and at lat,
d hours, does more harm than good. GYM
: nastlc and Callisthenic exercise, are O
e great advantage, IF adapted IN kiad an.
t, extent to the constitution of the andiridu
d al Shuttlecock, Jumping the rope, an
, the play called the gfaces, are heallhfu
re exercises. Reading aloud, and recitation
ri are Strengthening muscular exercises. :
l. The great Cuvier believed that he save
himself from consumption by this exel
at else. Active domestic occupations al
a healthful. these bring into exercise bod