How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. HALI’-BUILT BOYS. But, whatever our inherited lacks and strong points, few who have looked into the matter can have failed to notice that the popular sports and pastimes, both of our boyhood and youth, good as they are, as far as they go, are not in themselves vigorous enough, or well enough chosen to remed}'- the lack. The top, the marble, and the jack-knife of the hoy are wielded with one hand, and for all the strength that wielding brings, it might as well have been confined to one. Flying kites is not likely to ovei*do the muscles. Yet top-time, marble- time, and kite-time generally cover all the available play-hours of each day for a large portion of the year. But he has more vigorous work than these bring. Well, what? Why, ball-playing and playing tag, and foot-ball, and skating, and coasting, and some croquet, and occasional archery, while he is a pain- fully accurate shot with a bean-shooter. Well, in ball-playing he learns to pitch, to catch,
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