Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-08-05
Mistellantous.
From the North American Review.
GYMNASTICS.

Horace Mann has the following pas
sage, in a description of a gymnastic
hall in Boston:
at is pleasure to look upon this
scene when the room is we'll filled, the
apparatus in full use, and the gymnasts
passing round from one piece Of the APP
paratus to another, to give the requisite
variety to their exercises, and to allow
each different part of the body to take
its turn. It is not the yigor, the agility,
or the quickness; it is not the length of
the leap, nor the height Of the vaulting,
which alone delights us in contempla-
ting this scene. To a1rehecting mind
there is deeper pleasure than could be
derived from beholding any mere exibi7
ton of strength, though it should equal
Samson's,or of fieetness, though it should
emulate that Of Mercury. We know
tn at every leap and spring aids in re-
newing the substance OF. the body, and
therefore in giving greaterehilarity to
the spirits, and superior vigor to the in
tellect..' Every motion helps to construct
fertilization against disease, and to
render the body more impregnable a.
gainst its attacks. 1t requires indeed
no very strong Imagination to see the
horrid forms of the diseases themselves,
as they are exercised and driven from
the bodies, which were once their VIC
Tins, and are compelled to seek some
new tenement. a4I8 dLE0IeE3aay0y
a5''Those prodigious leaps over the
vaulting horse, how they kick hereditary
govt out of the toes! Those swift som
ersets, with their quick and deep breath
ings, are ejecting bronchitis, asthma,
and phthisic from the throat and lungs.
On yonder pendant rope, consumption
is hung up like malefactor, as it is
Legions Of blue devils are impaled on
those parallel bars. Dyspepsia lost hold
of it's victim when he mounted the fly
ing horse, and has never since been able
to regain his accursed throne, and live
by gnawing the vitals. There goes a
| flock Of nervous distempers, headaches
and tic douloureaux and ST. Anthony's
fire; there they fly out of the windows,
seeking some stall fed alderman, or fat
mil onaire, or aristocratic old lady,
Rhermatisms and cramps and spasms
sit coiled up and chattefing in the corn
ers of the room, like satanic imps, as
they are; the strong muscles of the ath-
letes have shaken them off, as the lion
shakes the dewdrops from his name
Jaundice flies away to yellow the cheeks
and blear the eyes ofmy fair young lady,
reclining on ottomans in her parlor.-
The balancing pole shakes lumbago out
of the back, and kinks our of the femor-
al muscles, and stitches out of the side.
Pleurisy, and apoplexy, and fever, and
paralysis, and death hover round they
look into the windows of this hall, but,
finding brain and lungs and heart all
defiant in theirpower, they go their way
in quest of some lazy cit, some guzzling
drone, or some bloated epicure at his
late supper, to fasten their fatal pangs
upon them. In the mean time, the rose
blooms again on the pale cheek of the
gymnast; his shriveled skin is filled out,
and his non-elastic muscles and bones
rejoice anew in the vigor and buoyancy
of youth. A place like this ought to be
named the Palace of HEALTH
But the theory ofgymnastics, howev-
er scientific or plausible, has rarely been
carried into full and patient execution
in modern times. The Greek fire is ex-
tinct. In Denmark, as early as 1903,
national attention. was given to the gym
nastic art, and many schools were estab-
lished. In 1911, DR.. jain instituted
hisHgymnasium at Berlin; in 1924, Vol
ker founded one in London; and one
was established in the same year by
Captain elias, at Chelsea, in the royal
military asylum. In 1925, DR.. Beck,
afterwards the honored Professor ofLa-
tin in Harvard College, a pupil of DR..
jain, commenced the first American
Gymnasium at northampton Massachu-
sets. ~ t tii3.''i4io 24ti t9l tAh
The lamented DR.. Follen had charge
of gymnasia in Boston and cambridge
in 1926 and. 1927. Similar institutions
now exist in most of the larger European
and American cities.
The Dickens Family Guardian Ex-
PLANTATION of the Disagreement.
The London correspondent of the
Springfield Republican, writing on the
goth of June, gives the following expla-
nation Of the incompatibility between
Dickens and his wife :8d 81 aa8
In the literary world very little is
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