Physical culture . nvigorating gamesas base-ball, boxing, foot-ball, basket-ball, andothers too numerous to mention, which arevery little known here. Your easily procured literature must also betaken into consideration—in fact, everything inyour country tends to make better peoplephysically, and morally, than in my own. Perhaps you may think that I am American-ized, and am therefore condemning my coun-try. No, I am not, I am merely stating theplain facts that have come under my observa-tion. Now to let you know what I have been doingamong my friends. When I first came home,I nearly went wild.
Physical culture . nvigorating gamesas base-ball, boxing, foot-ball, basket-ball, andothers too numerous to mention, which arevery little known here. Your easily procured literature must also betaken into consideration—in fact, everything inyour country tends to make better peoplephysically, and morally, than in my own. Perhaps you may think that I am American-ized, and am therefore condemning my coun-try. No, I am not, I am merely stating theplain facts that have come under my observa-tion. Now to let you know what I have been doingamong my friends. When I first came home,I nearly went wild. Being used to live asclose a physical culture life as a college per-mits, I was taken back very much when Ifound no pure air, with the narrow streetsfull of foulness, and refuse of all kinds thrownabout, no place in which to spend a half hourexercising — nothing to which I had beenaccustomed. I built a small gymnasium, andbegan to live as best I could under the circum-stances. I aroused the boys enthusiasm, and. J. V. Prada, Jr»t Celaya, Mexico, whosegreat physical vigor is doe to the influenceof our literature. showed them your magazine. I translatedthe most important articles, and in manycases, the lilustrations were enough to producethe desired effect, the result is that all whom Ihave interested have various forms of appa-ratus, such as rings, parallel-bars, dumb-bells,rubber exercisers, etc., showing the willingnessand energy produced by reading your maga-zine. Oh! would that we had a magazine likePhysical Culture, in our own language. Itwould be a boon to this nation. The writer is 17^ years old; 5 ft. 2 ins. inheight and weighs 125 pounds. I can pressup with right hand 100 pounds, with left hand 582 PHYSICAL CULTURE 90 pounds. A bandage is tied on my wrist,and doubling my arm I can resist successfullythe efforts of twelve boys (sixteen and seven-teen years old), of ordinary strength, to pullmy arms apart. This is what physical culturehas been able to do for me, and
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