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RESULTS OF PHYSICAL TRA1MNG.

be too thoroughly appreciated for any one of its parts to be either neglected or overtrained.

GRŁATER STRENGTH.

People are apt to confound healtli and strcngth. The terms are not synonymous. The strength of the body is not proportionately distributed. A man may have enor-mous arms and chest, powerful legs and a weak waist. The strength of a person may be compared to a chain. If one link is defective the whole chain is weak; unless the parts are so strengthened that one will assist the othcr, the strength is not what it ought to be. A man may have great strength but poor health. Ii is astonishing that so many of our giants die ąuickly, and that men who make their living by lifting heavy weights, wrestling, and boxing, go down suddenly, many of them dying of lung trouble.

BETTER I’HYS1QUE. *

Admitting that the physiąue is improeed by physical training we have not yet reachcd that position in our science or art where any great ehange can be madę unless the training begins with the child and is permanently conlin-ued. The boy is apt to be like one of his parents. If he inherits froin the mother a slender, slight physique, he is liable to possess it always. The round-shouldered j^routh, or one with drooping heatl, does not oflen overcome these defects. If the bonę growth is established it will be almost impossible to straighten the spine, arch the chest, and overeome the physical defects. Yet it is true that the muscular system is invigorated, the action of the heart strengthened, the capacity of the lungs increased, the muscular coat of the veins and arteries improved, and the whole physical condition bettered by esercise.