The Worthington advance., 1879-04-10

cumulates IN the right side Of the heart
and impure blood, laden with carbonic
acid, is pumped back into the system.
Still another danger raises from too vio-
lent exercise before the arteries learn to
accommodate themselves to the increased
demand upon them, and that is citation of
the cavities, which give way before the
strain and induce chronic disease. Hence.
when persons Of sedentary pursuits
take sudden and violent exercise they
endangeT their health in a very serious
degree. Those who begin to mend their
lazy habits must do so slowly, gradually
accustoming the arteries to do more
work, and thus preventing heart disease.
for years is in condition to run any dis
tance at full speed and should not at
temptit. His exercise should be confined
to brisk walk to begin With, and he
should avoid anything like serious con-
dition of breathleesness. After the prop
er condition is arrived at, his digestive
system, will be enormously improved,
and his whole body will begin to glow
with health and animation.
Exercise is instructive with children,
and should be encouraged. Children,
when they have reached the age of three
years, should be allowee to play as much
us they like, and the hoops and balls, for
which they have an instructive partiality,
are better than any gsmanastic course
they can go through. The German sys-
tenn Of gymnasia for boys is not advocat-
I'd in the volume before US. The games
which boys al o take to are the most
beneficial exercise that can pe found for
them. Swinging, for instance, judici-
ously allowed, exercise in profitable
degree all the muscles of the body, and
like football, shiny, leaping, running,
wrestling, boxing, and so forth, are better
than anytLing OF IA artificial character
The gymnasium is all very we'll in its way,
but the game is very much bett r.
There is one subject which the scientific
gentlemen who are publishing the health
prinlerslay great stress upon, and that is
the irjury dnne to young lads by the
athletic contests which have, during the
phst twenty years, found so much favor
in the English, public schools. a table
OF growth, based upon careful observa-
tion of 3 sos boys Of ages ranging from
13 to II shows that the development Of
the human male body is greatest between
Is and II, reaching its maximum at abou
the 10th year. Thus the period Of boy:
ute between 16 and II becomes one ol
great consequences TO him, and if be bt
at such 81 ason subjected to great strair
AS he undoubtedly 1s, both intellectual
ly and physically, where ath etc contest.
are encouraged his DEVELOPMENT mus
sutf"r, snd either his future growth vii
be interfrred with or the foundation vii
bc laid of Constitutional disease.
GIRLS AT GAMES.
Girls up to eight or nine years ar.
allowed to play the same games as thejl
brothers, aDd generally beat them, but
after that time, preposterous notions o
department begin to dwarf them. Corset
and tight shoes cripple their bodies, ani
exercise ceases. The muscles dwindl,
aud waste, and the whole CHASTITY proccs
sion of feminine ills begin to appear. o
course It is not to be expected that the,
should play violent games, like football
or cricket, but tives, rackets, base ball
of the feminine order lawn tennis, row
ing, riding and swimming ought to bt
indulged in by girls as we'll as boys
Where these opportunities are denied
them, they should be given the privileg,
OF the gymnasium.
Boys games may be safely played BY
grown men, up to forty, when change
begin to take place in the body which
render exercise likely to throw grea
strain upon the heart and blood-vessel
injurious and undesirable. Long before
men have reached forty the great msjori
~ have settled down to sedentary pur
suits and begin to prematurely decay fo
want of exercise. But this is wrong
Fishing, hunting, and walking are proper
exercises for men, and between forty anC
fifty it is Indispensable that they should
avail themselves of something of the kind
The circulation begins to fail ut forty, thu
digestion is impaired. Mental labor and
family and business cares have by thi.
time begun to tell upon the mort 70
bust physique, and exercise is the only
remedy in the world for tho little all
ments that begin to tell. Disturbances
of the stomach and liver, catarrh, restless
and disturbed sleep, bad dreams, giddi.
nes, dimness Of sight, palpitation Of the
heart and score OF other symptoms, an.
noying, and to most men alarming, begin
tn threaten gout. gravel, stone and fatty
degeneration; and, unless the RENE dy Of
good, copious exercise is taken, the threa,
Is fulfilled, and the man of fifty is q
Oroken-down old man twenty wears
before his time. But healthy exercise is
q complete restorative.