The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-10
NOT v FAX BODIED.
CITY PEOPLE QUITE AS ROBUST
AS AGRiCUlTURlSTS

in A. aaemy Which Men Attend for In
siru"tion ia Muscular Exercise The
Course Of Training Which Fat Pupil
M'sst Undergo.
IL II a common idea that people of means
IN great city are weak-bodied There are
certain we'll established rhetorical phrases
which are responsible for the notion partly.
Orators and writer's, geueralizing in an cpl
grammatic aud irresponsible manner, have
mate it easy TO think of all agricuiturists
u lusty, sinewy aud robust, ciear-eyed,
horny banded; aud al of the city people as
pale, eheninate, light WASTED, round shout
dered. conservative aud without calves The
facts are much to ii contrary, but people
are not accustomed ., rely for their impress
sions altogether ui'' facts. Again, it is
natural, perhaps, 10 presume that man
with plenty OF money would be encouraged
To take his ea4e, that, having coupons
enough, he would bs ready TO omit the
l4bI5 o; eating his broad in the sweat of his
brow, AMI bo satisfied to coniine his atten-
ton to his senses and let his muscles take
care OF themselves. But, in point of fact,
this is not the case with the city man of
means, as a rule. Some OF the leisure
| classes, of course, do nothing but pander to
their senses, but 1t has been found draw
back to unstintel qualification of this sort
that the people who practice it do not live
long. u hat is money Handicapped with
dyspepsia, o. with nerves that are out of
time And really the achievement of
proper physical and muscular condition
amounts 70 Il qualification of the sense.
s. ErHHRANEAN ACADEMY.
There arc many places in the town where
uian can so IN Tor muscular cultivation,
bat 1t is sufficient to consider one. This
pace Is IN Filth avenue, in the basement of
On OF those ol-time brown stone mansions
now given over to trade. The pupil has an
appointed hour, and if he doesn't appear he
has to Pay all the same at the rate of about
- u lesson. Let us suppose he appears
Diving down Il broad set of basement steps
he opens the door of this subtcrranean
academy, and simultaneously a bTilaen gong
Hpuvc hts heli .Dcrat''s with a trefnrn tous
'lans. lie is IN room fifty feet long and
twenty live wiis with hard wood flooring,
polished ~ wear About the walls hang u
lot OF 5pu iinr prints, and in one section,
str X bchinl the top of the wainScot and
tackled to thl wall ahnYc it, there is a con
stvilat:oa Of boxers IA photograph, posel Sc
50 rs TO SHOW their anu ,cies H. the best al
Vdatas&, Fu. furniture the academy con-
talns Il rack ot wooden dumb-belis and skip
ping rope, ten pound wooden bail that
wUG,d al "a bushci basket and whole grove
oi boxing gloves
From room at the back peers cut lie
demonstrating head 81 ni,hni with gray
hilr and spercticles As ho steps forth
aul SAYS good morning he reveals the some
what Partly person OF man nearing 80
year, OF g, IKE feen ten inches III height,
weighing POI pounds, and clad III a iieecy
white "s"el'cr or jersey, pair of trousers
buttuned about the ankles, socks and slip
Por The pupri enters the back room,
strip, aud aons his working toys They
vary a-curGn, to his, fancy or bis means
um' Of tho sNeiis haze beautiful tights and
trunks, aui uthur5 are careless about the
clothes that They do the work IN. If the
pupil /, TAT, however, he must bury himself
IA taunHt, Thu last article he IA sumes is
Tn, S'aLe;' which Is closely woven of wool,
vi great thickness, and gives hiIh The aspect
vt polar bear
Thus ;Ittired, The pupil returns to the
main room and lesin, his work, First he
wings an clsht-pc ml club in a particular
manner fifty tIruos III each hand Th1n he
swings a fifteen pound club fifty times with
both hands, and does 100 rapid motions
with a pair Of tiye-p pound dumb bells Next.
upon the tregdie au arrangement of pulIeysl
he pals hlusaI uv to his chm forty times,
raising what would be equivalent to one
thiri Of bis weight each time and performs
4 compound motion of arms and legs 100
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