The sun., 1902-03-09

| Of abnormal achievement, and as soon az
the heroic practice stops, he Is very likely
not 70 be so strong as other men. Athletics
are in most cases stimulants, and nothing
or very little, besides.
-One other great essential which ap-
peared to be entirely lost sight Of at first
was that physical training should be given
with regard TO the individual TO be trained.
| Tho old way was TO train everybody in
classes. The way now Ia to minister TO
individual needs. / give out my work TO
my pupils just as i would give out pre-
scriptions.
Il write out for one pupil say: First
exercise. fifteen times; second exercise,
! twelve times-and so on; and to another
the number will be greater or less. BY
medical gymnastics we mean the training
Of the individual, just as by medical advice
We mean the administering OF medicine
for the special case under treatment.
And what In the result OF the present
treatment? Well, / have watched pupils
for two or three years after they have
flnished-not very much longer because
the new way has not been in existence
much longer than that-and I have seen
them strong and healthy. and permanently
cured Of ailments with which they were
afflicted when they began the work.
Il have seen that from year TO year the
chest expansion and incidental muscular
development acquired during training
have been maintained without effort. With
the old methods who could say the same
thing three years after training had ceased2
Why. year without the accustomed exer-
cise found a pupil with fabby muscles and
contracted chest.
The reason for this Is very simple.
Since the present method consists almost
entirely of the proper breathing exercises.
IL becomes after a few months simply
second nature. II is as easy to breathe deeply
and correctly az it was to breathe badly,
and the pupil does it with as little thought.
This means that the training taken IN
school becomes habit and that the pupil
carries about with her all her life a fountain
of youth and health.
How many times do you breathe In
the course Of the dayi Well, your daily
exercise, II you know how to take it, con-
sists not in half an hours spasmodic effort
night and morning, but OF constant exer-
else, with every breath you draw and ex-
pei Do you not see how / can say that
no gymnasium with apparatus Is necessary?
u NOlIl VI lTtsll anu llle ROOp sense
to breathe it properly-that is all that is
needed. The rest il habit. And that is
what the present science OF medical gym
nastics reduces to.
In one point only" added DIR. Hagman.
'does the old way Of teaching physical
culture agree with the new. Both have
held steadfastly to the necessity for dis
| regarding corsets. Since the purpose Of
the deep breathing is TO give more room
to all the organs. as well as TO increase the
supply Of air TO the body it Is easy to see
how the first end cannot he brought about
II there ia no room for the organs TO have
more room, so to speak And the very
loosest corset is tighter than no corset at all
-In these two points the old method
agrees with that Of the present, and this
corset dictum has followed physical train
ing down from it's first stages 20 the pres
ent, through all the steps Of an evolution
which have made it not the teaching of
tricks. but the science of health"