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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    on a table, many, if not most, of these bands would be found to lack beauty and symmetry, the fingers, and indeed the whole band, too often having a weak, undeveloped, nerveless look. Now watch these girls at play. See how few of their games bring them really vigorous exercise. Set them to running, and hardly one in the party has the swift, graceful, gliding motion she might so readily acquire. Not one can run any respectable distance at a good pace. There is abundant viva- city and spirit, abundant willingness to play with great freedom, but very little such play as there might be, and which would pay so well. Most of their exercise worth calling vigorous is for their feet alone, the hands seldom having much to do. The girls of the most favoured classes are generally the poorest players. The quality and colour of their clothing necessitates their avoiding all active, hearty play, while it is the constant effort of nurse or governess to repress that superabundance of spirits which ought to belong to every boy and girl. Holding one’s elbows close to the body while walk- ing, and keeping the hands nearly or quite motion- less, may accord with the requirements of fashion- able life; but it is terribly bad for the arms, keeping them poor, indifferent specimens, when they might be models of grace and beauty. As the girl comes home from school, not with
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