The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-02
MUSCLES.
From the Hearth and Homo


/ It's the same Old lament. Yenophane
the philosopher was never tired OF COM
planning OF The reverence which thu
Greeks gave the victorS in athletic games
And IN our day, tTenty-f0ur hundred
years after Ken ophanes, literary men st,l
complain OF the attention paid to the
Walter Browns and the Jem Maces and
Tue Westons Of our Olympic games
L IS the same old lament. William
Lloyd Garrison SAYS thaG boat-raccs de-
vetop anlmalism, AnG yet, after twa
millenniums and half, human nature Is
ust What 1t was in the days Of the Flea
TIC Xenophanes People forget to boas,
OF lhelr Literary men and their orators as
soon IS the champion in the last boat
race puts In an appearance.
On the other hand, muscle has its
place TOO and even brains can afford To
pay 1t tribute. Xenophanes did not
Know that the density and force slowed
sway in his own muscular fiber made it.
sell t9lt III his phlsosophical hcxameters
Which,though delivered orally IN the days
before a'pha6ets, have survived 60 our
own time, witnesses to the faith in The
unity OF God in ola Greece Xenophanes
could not understand the relation be
"een the strength CT bis tendoDs and the
V5gor or his thoughts. Law OF tenlpera-
ment had not been discovered then. Bur
we know that good legs add good arms
nave much to do both with the force ana
Ghe endurance of the brain. We know
mat a big brain must be balanced with
some muscle.
But not too much. There is favor
tie propo sltiOn with some people, that if
IL little Is good more is better. Muscular
development being need tul, why not
have a great deal ofit? Let us have
the vlgor Of the gymnasium. Let US have
health-lltts. Here is Dr. Winship lifting
twenty eight hundred, and lectur,ng on
the means by which it can be done Here
are base-ballists and boatm invading
the colleges and wooins studious youth
lnto training. And there are bumD-bel
and crOss-bars and the rest Let US have
muscle.
Buta horticulturist knows that he can
Mt have two things IN perfection on the
same plant. If he mas the finest bios
sons he does not expect fruit. Neither
can you develop man in too many eli
tectlons. There is u certain amount of
spare vitality in a man. You may send
It To brain, or you may send it to muscle
But he must be an extraordinary man
Who can develop 10Th without impairing
his working capital.
But no man can be all brain, and the
danger in this country is not In the di-
rection OF too much muscle, except in in
dlvidual cases. We sadly need good
(rv mn Gil n lu oil L.
and in most smaller cities and Wages
Boston has DID Lewis BROOKLYN has
probably the most complete and the best
conducted gymnasium in the world in
Burnham's Academy of Physical Culture.
But there are few other places in which
there are gymna3la conducted in such q
way that people of refnement-men, wo-
men, and children-can enjoy their priv
alleges Girls need gymuasia more than
boys, and no town is rightly furnished
with educational facilities which does not
give them gymnasium privileges. Some
OF the money spent in building surplus
Female Colleges" might better be given
TO build village and city gymuasia.
Mark, we are not saying that anybody
however sedentary his life, needs to de
velop the muscle Of an OK, needs to con -
sumo his vitality in the swinging of
heavy dumb oolls, or to destroy his life
as Renforth did in boating But
girls and boys, clerks aud scho0l-teach-
ers ought to have light, cheerful gym
nastic training under a competent teach
er, such as Mr.. Burnham or Dr. Lewis
training that will produce symmetrical
growth OF the muscles, and that will
keep the exercise within healthful bonds
If such drill is accompanied by music
and by cheerful ompanionship, it may
add years to the life, and double the en-
joyment Of life while it lasts