The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-10

! IttIy Oh exercises, GHlCkeH6u AN
hardened every muscle in thei
bodies, and swelled out chest
whose full curved lines, who's
broad fronts and deep sides CAV
to the looker-on a sense Of ire
mendous strength and OF wonderful
endurance.
Huxley, the greatest of living
Psychologists, said: 81 had ratheI
have my son the possessor Of a full
broad, deep chest in his young
manhood, to meet his life work
than for him to have half million
pounds sterling, or be senior wran-
gler."
The chest contains the great or
gans of our bodies; the heart, whose
powerful action sends through our
frames the lifeblood which carries
particles chosen from our food to
Ss1 ld up muscles, nerves, bone, and
Wy .45re replace the tissues that every ac-
tlon destroys; the lungs, the sup
plier of oxygen, which carried by
the blood into the minute capilla-
ries in every part of the system,
united with the worn out muscle,
and nerve-cells, and carries them
away to sbe exhaled as carbonic
acid gas.
Stand up a moment. Remove
your coat and waistcOat. Put the
apemeasure around you-uuder
your arms, across your chest
tight. What does it read2 Thir-
ty-fve inches. Put your hands on
your hips, thu rbs in front-that
helps to throw your shoulders back;
never mind if arms akimbo are
proof positive of a tendency to vul-
garity; now take a long, slow
breath through your nostrils. No
tice the swelling of your abdomen,
and the size OF your chest. Now
have the same measure taken again
seven and one-half Two
and one-half inches difference, now
that every air cell in your lungs is
illed. Do not hold your breath |
ong enough to feel uncomfortable
n the slightest degree; and let it
'ut through your nostrils, of course.
Fry that six times every night and
morning, and in month, make an
'ther measurement.
Here is something to aid you
IN inspirator-not a high priced
'iece of apparatus, but equally eff
icient, save that it does not meas
Ire in cubic inches the amount of
Iir you inhale. One cent pays for
his. Purchase a clay pipe at the
tore. Break two inches of the
tem-only because it is useless
md in the way. Place the bowl in
our mouth, and inhale. You are
'bliged to work slowly now, and
10 fear of injury, and a grand
nance for the air to penetrate into
very cell. The muscles which
move your ribs in breathing, get a
.ood, long stretch, which brings the
'lood flushing into them, and rem
Iers them capable of better action
It the next trial.
Now, let US try some exercise to
'roaden and deepen the chest, and
,iveImore room for the lungs. Stand
rect, andq--throWing your head
,ack so far that your body
cans a little backward, take six
ong, deep breaths. This is very
.ood for lifting up the ribs and
hrowing out the chest.
Stand facing the wall of your
oom-sixteen or eighteen inches
rom it; place your hand against
he wall. opposite your shoulder,
brow your head backward till you
ook straight at the ceiling, taking
4 through your nostrils a full
reath, then lean forward till your
reast touches the wall. Repeat
lis several timessa day.
Throw your head backward, and
ooking at the ceiling, push your
ands alternately upward. This
xercise, and others similar, may !
e made more beneficial by using
ght dumb-bells,
These exercises, if systematical- {
Z persevered in, will certainly re-
ult in enlarging the chest, strength
ming your lung power, and entend- ,
lg your life and power of useful
ess.