Health at school : considered in its mental, moral, and physical aspects / by Clement Dukes.

  • Dukes, Clement, 1845-1925.
Date:
1887
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    and regulated accordingly. In all the exercises I name, there should be proper clothing and appropriate boots, which should be changed as soon as the exercise is over. First we have loalking, running, skipping, smdjum])- ing, all of which are capital exercise, especially walking, but this should be performed in the country, with perfect liberty of pace and choice of friends, and should never be enforced as a regulation march. Then we have dancing, which is a splendid exercise when performed at appropriate hours in appropriate rooms, and tends to produce grace of movement so essential to a lady's educa- tion. Gymnastics, such as light dumb-bells, parallel bars, the trapeze, rings, horizontal bar and ladder exercise, may all be safely used and with the greatest benefit. Drilling, too, is very useful, especially in producing an upright carriage. There is no better or more suitable exercise than riding. Sivimming is cleanly, and would remove the tendency to nerves more than anything else; besides which it is useful to others as well as the performer herself. Skating is invigorating and health- giving beyond measure: it comes at a time, too, when there is more or less a deficiency of means of exercise ; every available moment, therefore, should be granted for this exercise and enjoyment, and work might be well stopped for half the day—as the opportunity for skating recurs so rarely in this country—even if more time were given to work when the ice has broken up. Moreover, excellent exercise might be obtained for girls by the use of roller-skates on a good asphalte lioor. Bowing provides one of the best exercises of all for ^ girls. It would soon banish the back-board from girls' schools, for the muscles of the back would become so strengthened that weak backs would be straightened, and the curved spine and outgrowing shoulder blade \vould become morbid conditions of the past. The exer-