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N. Y, in 1923, graduated from Har
ward Medical School, Boston, in 1S45
practiced in Auburn and Buffalo up te
1889. At Buffalo he wrote his famou:
papers on cholera, which we're after
wards published in book form.
Since 1855 he has been engaged In
lecturing and writing on the subject o.
public and personal hygiene. With
the exception oftwo visits to Europe
and three summers of saddle life IN the
mountains or California, he has been
increasingly occupied with the "ounce
ofprevention."
His labors have bee.l varied, inter-
esting, and most effective. During
four years he lectured almost every
night giving his days to the invention
ofhis new system of gymnastics, In
1860, having completed this system, lie
abandoned the platform and settled in
Boston. Mass, to establish his Nor
NAL School tor Physical Training.
Within seven years more than four
hundred persons were graduated from
the Boston Normal School, and bear
ing its diploma, with the name of Dio
Lewis as its President, went out into
the lard. teaching the new school Of
physical training. Among those grad
yates was that admirable gentlemen
and scholar, Moses Colt Tyler, now
Professor in Cornell University. He
went abroad, remaining in London
several years. introducing the Dio.
Lewis Gymnastics. Prof. Tyler's lee
lures and his contributions to the Eng
lish magazines on the new school of
body culture, constitute the finest por-
ton of the literature of the new move
ment. In one of Prof. Tyler's papers,
in leading English magazine, occurs
this paragraph
'fThe movement OF thought in
America toward physical culture is
thus organized upon a profound and
abiding basis. An impulse has been
given which vibrates through a popu-
lation of twenty millions And
of this vast and beneficial movement,
Dio Lewis stands clearly at the head.
To him the people are looking as to an
apostle and guide. He has inaugural
ed In America great national. re-
form,"
Another interesting phase of DR..
Lewis work is found in the great SEM
mary which he established at at Lex
ington, Mass.
His object was to illustrate the pos
Utilities In the physical development
of girls during their school life. The
marvellous uiumphs of this institution
during the years DR.. Lewis devoted to
Its management, he gives in the North
American Review for Dec, 1852 AS
he says in that paper, hundreds of
grateful parenes are familiar with the
facts. Girls who came unable to as
cend single flight of stairs without
suffering in few months were able to
walk five to ten miles without inconve-
nience.
In the course of his twenty-five years
residence in Boston, DIR. Lewis pub
lished nine volumes on the various as
poets of the health af the human body,
some of which like "Our Girls "Our
Digestion" and "Weak Lungs" haye
had enormous sales.
DIR. Lewis has now removed to the
city of New York, to publish a large
monthly magazine. to be called "Dlo
Lewis Monthly" and to be devoted to
Sanitary and Social Science. This
will be the crowning work of his long
life of labor in the interests of better
bodies for American men and women.
1t may interest Lord Coleridge to
learn that there are enough lawyers
shingles in this country to roof all the
court houses In England.
Henry Watterson editor OF the Lou
sville Courier Journal, is a nephew Of
Judge Stanley Matthews of the United
States Supreme Court.
Mr.. Cable the New Orleans novelist,
IS said to have been ostracized by the
Creoles of that city because of his de.
'cription OF them in his book.
New bonnets for autumn wear are
already displayedin a bewildering and {
elegant variety of styles. Dainty and
uncommon models in dark English
,raids and felts are shown, the former
trimmed with richly-color-