Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-02
Gy lmnastics.
NJ ExERcBEs' AT BuofPUs' STABLE IN
GREAT JONES STREET.

NJ ExERCEEs' AT BUafPUs STABLE IN
GREAT JONES STREET.
Lam PlaAn man who hates nonsense.
For Ilsn who weighs only few ounces
over 266 pounds, il is rather hard 10 be
told oy vulgar PEOPLE, who are intimate
enoug o 70 Jake liberties and think they can
make Jokes, that he must find a way Of
throw z out some OF his ballast NJ
friend Bumpus tells me that must dispose
o. few pounds of the adipose tissue
which pack under my vest, lace my STAYS
a little Lighter, and read Mr. Bautine's
WORK on ''rae Art of Gettisg Lean"
I say nothing in return 1t has been well
observed that mans ability is best found
ouL by noticing what he might have said,
but didn't say. have heard how MANY
witty things great men, who also are dis
Greet, abstain from saying, and my friends
have never missed chance that came to
hand of telling me that am great man.
Blobb," says my friend Bumpus, who
mas taken out his freedom of the courtesies
because our stores were near each other in
the BOwery, and we left business within
two years o. one another" Blobb, you're
too lat IOu eat too much you take too
little exercise see by your gasping at
this moment that you'll die of fatty heart,
If YOU don't mind yourself Fat, don't
you Knox, II You get too much of it col
.ects about the cookies of the heart and
hlHders them from opening their shells
smotners them, in fact. Blobb. you are
mass of cookies, and one OF these DAYS YOU
VIII be smOtilered"
~Bampus," said, "you are unfeelinp :"
las what you'll wish you were But
come, old fellow. III give you q chance for
twenty years more of lie. You won't
leave oil ieeoIhg on potatoes; you will eat
Dread and drink beer. Very well, then !;
eat EN-, and work EN- into muscle. If You
want u save your cookies, TALL to At Your
mus sees l believe, upon my honor, that
be Meant this for joke. a lean new
year 10 you" says ne, "and more lean
years thsn Pharaoh had. Here, Blopb.
ny Toy, I'D be sorry to lose good neigh
Dor 50 soon as you seem to be Roiue. and
so snail take the liberty Of giving you q
Chri itmas box"
/ had been giving Christmas boxes Il
the morning; Tor il actually was Christmas
Day, and tnls was tine only time similar
Compliment had been offered to myself
As the compliment represented Q rather
haudsone-ioOkiDg book, took il, and
said: Thank you, Bumpua" Then |
looked At the back aud saw it was . Hand
book II Gy N uaslics and Athletics.
Now" says he, Blobb, Just make
point of doing regularly every morning for
d &c y N InJhs some of the exercises set You
in tais book. walk, do; and you'll
ind my house and yard in Great Jones
street ntted up as it ought TO be, with help
10 stretch y our limbs instead of help to do
without EN-. There's rack there, and
knOtted rope, ana q hanging plank; be
sides BUCK, and . vauiling horse, and q
climbing wal, and all that sort oil thing. in
the ysfO. Tee book' s capital one, though
taken from a popular German Turn book.
anu perhaps lille too much on the Ger.
man Turner system for your lazy bones
L )oS INTO 1t after dinner, and come over 20
me, If you ike, every morning, say at 10
L keep dlrecior Of exercises instead of
cOacnman."
81 Bampas went away, and left the spok.
And tAs first Turn II gave me was then
nrst opened II and saw il full of awful
pictures OF men hanging by their legs, like
weasnercocks flom poles, anc twisted this
way and that, as IL suffering ali the tor
lures of inqaisiSion. The first bit of read
ing my yes lighted on was part of long
Chapter On the rack, which said: I've
divide the exercises at the rack into six
great groups. viz
:" :E1s.cisss hanging by hs upper a
tremIues ;~ -
TsAExsscisess hanging BY upper and
lower eXtremities;
% Exercises hanging BY the lower ex-
tremIt'es only" sr
That day read no more. The bare no
ton Of biDg exercised on the rack while
hung head downward, like the hog at the
oatcaers shop door, very nearly took my
legs irom under me. Next day, as had
nothing else TO do, when i had done nv
ne @spaper, l resumed Bumpns' book and
as fels unsteadiness Of the legs coming
on 1wheni opened IL anC locked at the pic
lures, took four glasses OF lager, accord
lag 10 sayIlg-oRe~ tor .heaiIh.- two for
cheer, three sor my friend, -four for nv
enemy. That enemy is Bumpus, a. viii
pressntly Dc made more clear. l,ru ~ .o
:" -Four glasses oil beer just supplied me
with coursgs enough to read, and saw
IAst tide was Q book on Gymnastic Ex-
ercises, by E G.. RaveDstein, F. r G. 3.
etc, President Of The German Gymnastic
Society, and John yHulley, 0ymnasiarch,
or Philadelphia
That these gentlemen had endeavored
to explain thed1fferent exercises as clearly
as possible, and without doing violence to
the Eng ish tongue.
That tney had drawn much upon Turn
book ty Mr. A R4yenstein, of Frankfort.
on the-Maine.
rnst gyianAzfafehs were much homo red
IN ancient Greece .SEEA
That the Romans were less refined pym-
nastS - 49, KaI 2
That His Majesty Kirg Teutobach, of the
Ieutons, vaulied over SIX horses standing