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MUSCLE BITILDING.

to thcir utmost capacity without straining them; for example: in illustration No. ~ the model is nsing the muscles that elincłi his hand as bard as possible, and at the same time is contraeting the muscles that opon his hand; the resolt is that the hand stays half way open, the fingers are rigidly fbced, the tendons of the wrist are prominent, the fofe-arm is hard. This esercisc repeated fifteen to t wen ty limes in the morning, the same number of times at night, and a few times oceasionally as a man is walkiug along the street by^r day, will do morę to increase the size of the nrusclcs of the forearm tlian all the hand-shaking, hand-writing, handling knife and fork, etc., that a man will do uli day. And morę than this, a onrpenter who is handling tools eiglit hours a day will not develop so hig or ro strong a forearm as will the man who takes this metliod. The long continned esercise with the hammer, saw and piane does not produee as strong contraetion. and hence does not bnild up as largo tissnes, as this intcnse work that is done through the antagonistic muscles.

Yon will notice when you do this exercise as hard as possible, that the fingers and even the whole fore-