. St. Nicholas [serial]. TlIF, HAND Ol the marble in the museum at Budapest. A NEW SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL TRAINING A method of developing tJte body, adapted from the practice of professional acrobatsBY ERNEST BALCH. Till-: CUKIAIN KlSEb ON THE lUiMBLING CLASS. From twelve to sixteen is the golden age in thedevelopment of a boy or girl. Not too plastic, asin the previous years, they are still shapable, andoften at this time is settled their future physicalefficiency, and probably that of mind and soul. If fortunate, at that period our future man orwoman reaches the domain of the athlet
. St. Nicholas [serial]. TlIF, HAND Ol the marble in the museum at Budapest. A NEW SYSTEM OF PHYSICAL TRAINING A method of developing tJte body, adapted from the practice of professional acrobatsBY ERNEST BALCH. Till-: CUKIAIN KlSEb ON THE lUiMBLING CLASS. From twelve to sixteen is the golden age in thedevelopment of a boy or girl. Not too plastic, asin the previous years, they are still shapable, andoften at this time is settled their future physicalefficiency, and probably that of mind and soul. If fortunate, at that period our future man orwoman reaches the domain of the athletic di-rector, who has at his command to-day only twosystems: systematic mechanical exercises, and thecompetitive method, with its dangers. Every oneknows how tedious and ineffective mechanicalexercises, calisthenics, drill, and all the rest be-come ; and many teachers understand the dangersof competitive athletics before sixteen. Can we not, then, find a system superior toeither in the development of muscle and nerve-control, and in the promotion of proper circula-tion and digestion, and still fascinating for theboy and girl? A way that will reach its end with-out the use of dull mechanical exercises, and without the
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