The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-03-12

blood. laden with carbonic acid, is pumped
back into the system- Still another danger
arises from too violent exercise before the
arteries learn to accommodate themselves to
the increased demand upon them, and that
is dilation of the cavities which give way be-
fore the strain and induce chronic disease.
Hence when persons Of sedentary pursuits
take sudden and violent exercise they endan-
ser their health in q very serious degree.
Those who begin to mend their, lazy habits
must do 90 slowly, gradually accustoming
the arteries to do more work, and thus pre-
venting heart disease. No man who has
worked like machine for years Is in q con-
dition to run any distance at full speed, and
should not attempt it. His exercise should
be confined to br1ek walk to begin with,
and he should avoid anything like serious
condition OF breathlessness. After the proper
condition is arrived ut his digestive system
will be enormosly improved. and his whole
body will begin to glow with health and an
imation.
EXERCISE FOR CHILDREN.
Exercise is instructive with children, and
should be encouraged Children, when they
have reached the age of three years, should
be allowed to play as much as they like,
and the hoops and balls, for whicn they have
an instructive partiality, are better than any
gymnastic course they can go through. The
advocated in the volume before us. The
games which boys also take to are the most
beneficial that can be found for them.
Swimming, for instance, iudiciously allow
ed, exercises in a profitable degree all
the muscles OF the body, and like foot
ball, shinny, leaping, running, wrest-
ling. boxing. and so forth, are better
than anything of an artificial character.
The gymnasium is all very well in Its way,
but the game is very much better.
There is one subject which the scientific
gentlemen who are publishing the health
nfInQrs Law OroQt OF N and that G fnc
injury done to young lads by the athletic
contests which have, during the past 20
years, found SO much favor in the English
public schools. A table of growth, based
ages ranging from 13 to IL, shows that the
development of the human male body is
greatest between 13 and IL, reaching its
maximum about the 10th year. Thus the
period of boys life between 16 and IL be-
comes one of the greatest consequences to
him, and If he be at such a season subjected
| to great straln-as he undoubtedly, both
| Intellectually and physically, where athletic
| contests are encouraged-his Development
must suffer, and either his future growth
| will be interfered with or the foundation
| will be laid of constitutional disease.
GIRLS AT GAMES.
Girls up to eight or nine years are allowed
| to play the same games as their brothers,
and generally beat them, but, after that
| time, preposterous notions of department.
begin to dwarf them. Corsets and tight
| shoes cripple their bodies, and exercise
ceases. The muscles dwlndle and waste.
| and the whole CHASTITY. procession of tenli-
nine ills begin TO appear. OF course it Is not
expected that they should play violent
games. like foot ball OR cricket, but fives,
rackets, base ballot the feminine order.
lawn tennis, rowing, riding and swimming
ought to be indulged in by girls as well as
boys. Where these opportunities are denied
them. they should be given the pri Tilege oi
the gymnasium.
Boys games may be safely played by
grown men, up to 10. when changes begin
to take place in the body which render
exercise likely to throw great strain upon
the heart and blood vessels injurious and
undesirable. Long before men have reached
40 the great majority have settled down to
sedentary pursuits and begin to prematurely
decay for want of exercise. But this Is
wrong. Fishing, hunting and walking are
| proper exercise for men, and between 40 and
80 it is indispensable that they should avsil
themselves of somsthing of the kind. The
circulation begins to fail at 10; the digestion
is i'm paired. Mental labor and family and
business cares have by this time
begun to tell upon the mos
robust physique, and exercise is the
only remedy in the world for the little all
ments that begin to tell. Disturbances o.
the stomach and liver, catarrh, restless and
disturbed Sleep bad dreams. giddiDess, dim
! ness of sight, pal pitation of the heart and 9
score of other symptoms. annoying. and II
most men alarming. begin To threaten gout
| gravel stone and fatty degeneration; and
unless the remedy of good. copious exerciss
is taken, the threat is fulfilled, aud the man
of 80 is q broken down Old man 20 years be
, fore his time. But healthy exercise is I
complete restorative.