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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    two miles, or even less, a long distance to walk, even at a dawdling' pace, while few of them have really strong chests, hacks, or arms. (If they wish to test their arms, for instance, let them grasp a bar or the rung of a ladder, and try to pull themselves up once till the chin touches. Not two in fifty will do it, but almost any boy can.) Hardl}^ a day goes by when a woman^s strength is not considerably taxed, and often overtaxed. There is no calling of the unmarried woman where vigorous health and strength—not great or herculean, but simply such as every well-built and well-developed woman ought to have—would not be of great, almost priceless, value to her. The shop-girl, the factory operative, the clerk in the store, the book-keeper, the seamstress, the milliner, the telegraph operator, are all confined, for many hours a day, with exercise for but a few of the muscles, and with the trunk held altogether too long in one position, and that too often a con- tracted and unhealthyone. Actuallynothing is done to render the body lithe and supple, to develope the idle muscles, to deepen the breathing and quicken the circulation—in short, to tone up the whole sys- tem. No wonder such a day’s work, and such a way of living, leaves the body tired and exhausted. It would, before long, do the same for the strongest man. No wonder that the walk to and from
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