The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-12-13

structIon IN Muscular Exercise-The
Course Of Training which Pat Pupil
Must Undergo.
It Is a common idea that people q means
II a great city are wsak-bOdisd There are
certain well established rhetorical phrases
which are responsible for the notion partly.
Orators and writers, gensrallzlDg IL an cpl
grsmmatic and irrespOnsibls manner, have
made il easy % think 0f al sgricUlturists
a lusty, sinewy and robust cIear-eyed,
horny handel and al u the city people a.
pale. efsminats, light WASTED, round sbOUl-
dsrsd. c0nsumptivs and without calves. The
facts are much 70 the contrary, tut people
are not accustomed 70 rely for their imprss-
siOns altogether upon facts Again IL Il
natural, perhaps, u presume that q man
with p.snty Of money would bs encouraged
u take his ease that, having coupons
enough be would BE- ready % omit the
habit Of eating bis bread in the sweat Of his
brow, and 10 satisfied " cOnfne his atten-
ton 70 his senses and let MS muscles take
care Of themselves. But IA point of fact,
this Is not the case with the city man Of
means, a. a rule. Some Of the leisure
classes, Of course, do nothing but pander u
their senses. but u has been found a draw
back 70 unstiuted qualification Of this sort
that the people vino practice IL do not live
long. What is money handicapped with
dyspepsia or with nerves that are out II
time. And really the achievement Of q
proper physical aud muscular condition
amounts % "a qualification Of the senss.
sUBTERRAEEAS ACADEMY.
There are many places in the town where
a man can 20 in tor muscular cultivation,
but II IL sufficient 70 consider one. This
place il ia Fifth avenue, in the basement VI
one Of those OId-tine brown stone mansions
now given over u trade The EIpi has an
appointed hour, and If he doesn't appear he
has 70 pay all the same at the rate Of about
q a lesson. Let Us suppose be appears
Diving down a broad set of basement steps
be opens the door Of this subterraneau
academy, and simultaneously brazsn gong
above his head operates with q tremendous
clang. He is In a room fifty feet long and
twenty five wide, with hard wood hCorIngs
polished by wear. About the walls hang q
lot Of sporting prints, and IN one section
stuck behind the top Of the wains cot and
tackled % the wall above IL, there Is z con
stelhtion Of boxers in photograph, posed 50
80 as TO show their muscles 70 the best ad-
vantage. For furniture the academy con
tains a rack Of wooden dumb-bells and skip
ping rope, q ten-pound wooden bail that
would fill bushsI basket, and whole grove
OF boxing gloves
From a room at the back peers out de-
head ga nished with gray
hair and specctacles. As he steps forth
and says good morning hs reveals the some
what pOrtly person Of q man nearing 81
years Of age, five feen ten inches in height,
weighing ~ pounds, and clad 10 a deecy
white sweater or jersey, pair Of trousers
DuttOned about the ankles, socks and slip
pers. The pupil enters the back room,
strips and dOns his working toys They
vary according 20 his fancy or bis means
Some Of the swells have beautiful tights and
trunks, and others are careless about the
clothes that they do the work in. II the
pupil is fat, however, be must bury himself
in hAnnelS The last article he assumes is
the sweater, which is closely woven Of wool,
Of great thickness, and gives him the aspect
Of polar bear.
Thus attired, the pupil returns to the
main room and begins his work First he
swings an eight~pound club in a particular
manner fifty times ia each hand. Then he
wings a hfteen-pound club fifty times with
both hands, and does 10 rapid motions
with pair Of five pound dumb bells Next
upon the treadIe IAN arrangement Of pulleysJ
be pulls himself up 70 his chin forty times,
raising what would be equivalent TO one
Ehi-d of his weight each time, and performs
4 compound motion Of arms and legs 100
times
EXERCISING ALL THE MUSCLES
Next he pulls the rowing weight fifty
times, rises and falls slowly upon his toes
100 Times, sqUats upon his heels and slowly
rises 20 an erect posture four times, and is
then ready for work with the boxing gloves
IL he has taken no rest he has been twenty
minutes at the preliminary exercise. The
skipping rope and bail are extras, which are
taken occasionally by some. The twenty
minutes work that has been described is
70 afford a decent exercise of ali
the muscles OK the human body, and l may
say after experience that any man who tries
Il for the first time will seek in vain for
square inch Of himself which does not feel
IS if il had not been cUdgeled
But it is the boxing which really calls
upon the muscles of the individual The
subject docs not dream of the work that he
Is doing that IS being done TO nin The
master skilllully leads HIM on, Offering him
self as a sacrifice. When one has succeeded
n catching his master on the peak of the jaw
1ne feels as though he could go on boxing
forever. The master understands this, and
makes the peak OF his jaw stand the racket
The consequence is that the subject quits the
business a wreck He can not lift his arms
His lungs are burning and apparently burst
pg He tOttsrs 90 the back room and falls
Ipon a couch. A deft attendant piles him
yard high with blankets. How he sweats!
At the end Of ten minutes be comes out like
spaniel from pond. He is still amazingly
weak as be Is hOisted 70 his feet and assisted
20 a room still further back, where there Is
hot stove and no end of towels. Here be
s stripped in jihy and rubbed dry, and
when he is dry be is lei still further along
md put into a bath Of - degrees
Here he lie kneaded and rubbed, and when
10 comes out he feels trihe better
He is carefully dried again aud led back
% the hot room, where the skilled attendant
Ions pair Of hair mittens and beats a tat
90 all over him IL is an asConishIngly ex-
lilarating process All the blood in the
)ody leaps 70 the surface and stops there,
ingling The subject is lobster red, and
eels like king. IN another minute he feels
Ike all the kings in the pack The attendant
las sOused him with bay rum The subject
obes himself, and walks forth as one who
rsades on air. a man who has never tried
)oxing hair mittens and bay rum can have
10 notion of what the combination feels
Ike. 1t Is heaven, and no mistake. In con
fusion, let me- say that the city men " 40 /.
20 through this performance daily are not I
They tread the flagstones like .
,Ods, and horny handed agricuIturists may 4
axe note that a blow from one of them is .
Ike the kick Of a mule New York Cor. (
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