The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1901, Page 6

THE SUNDAY CALL cores of educatéd men w haa allowed to hamper mm naa passed A sound body is not the only needed Ise- 1n a numb: ities = e o outdoors, where the There 2re scores o eyl by natural laws to his son. The narrow tor in life, DUt 1'% & oplendid (Ring With of the sm:'r'e(;'c?z‘i';slf"fri'r‘l'f,‘fj o some ., Remes ang sprie CUIGIE e ey know Hetie of pract} 2 chest, h_a.rd breathing and chronic ca- which to start and a thi necessary to certain amount of calisthenles each day. glow of richer biood brought on the cheek. P 3 L‘mtin *ond Greek who ;lurrh. which almost always go hand in health and happiness. Nature meant your This is all very good, but there is not Give your boy every chance; get him a omy, 1 A teliows and & and, were found in both. The fat, unde- boy to be strong; don't let your ignorance haif enough of it, and it Should be sup- air of dumb-bells, put up a turning bar mighty helpless ¢ ity or prudishness stand in the way. In or- plemented by other hearty and vigorous In vour back vard or in your doorway. thelr fellowmen., CRISET O ' der to make the coming generations as exercige. Callsthenics are not a substi- teach him lively tricks and vigorous shnum«e:;,'fl“il“h,',\.‘m ed. Phys: OW many parents make that mistake? healthful and manly as the past bo; tute for the many good. old-fashioned games. If you cannot find time or space Progress uld be the rule and not Instead of correcting, as far as possible, must have physical culture oe wall for thege let him join a gymnasium. 5;..., “\m;?rhn e e S a b v ovisi e in our cities for exception. It is as s v Rt base, shinny anda baseball. ¥ re reate o I Bngiand and Germany and Middie by example, should create a desire amo: Burope large trects are laid aside for the your pupils —for ‘p srounds especial purpose of providing playgrounds. Get out upon the . s Not only is chis done. but I learn thacshe thera age r Government employs teachers, who hav SHOWING r e : entire oversight of city gymnasiums, me I R el 1 g . 5 g % Ak d b sz\nn?;"rru\fi:grsf certain Yims each day spinming op ‘h(',"“’ & BAcr . e o P ; aronA e B ¢ | for their pupils to spend in training dnd playing ma; byt t { sy 3od-given privilege IR our American cities too much thought advantage to g e has been given to econemy of space and At an early age th pot enough provision made for public use. Instead of spacious playgrounds that would give the boys plenty of freedom, i we find such signs as ‘Keep off the grows older he wil grass,” “Five dollars fine for plaving light in proper ma public places.” Boys who perchance can- e .~ not hold in any longer and engage i 3 he boy W ¢ friendly bout o?hwugne are promptly col- o Dir RGE 3¥. BRADEX lared and punished becatise “boys will be Physical Director TRrocp, hould be taug y exercise, game ning, wers, and ave unbounded vsical develop ERHAPS you fancy that the small boy ca e overcivilized Es- pectally do you think so if he be- longs to your neighbor. And you mistaken. He m: to the dog’s tall &nd pin a stick in his sister; by prove him only part savage it comes down to good savagedom, to the bedrock of the matter, our city boys are nowhere. They are overcivilized They haven't the muscie. They ha the grit. They haven't the ginger. They are a flabby lot compared wi he farm- r or the South Sea Isla t to do is give them Its a hard matter if t one lives in and the school yard is only big enc game of mumble- the-peg But it can be done and by tematic exercise. In order to ki up oy . ds of civiliza- ¥ SHOwWING with the strenuous Gema DEV have the savage in them ELOPMENT OF wWAIST PASADENA ¥y H.c A JuNoRS SohT e FRoM A RON. rapidity with which the 1 wre growing in popu- ar decrease in the op- lation and a =t es 1 come in con- DOING A THROW. FoOR, $ - e ARMS = LEGS z es which vity and p \ time parents ir own fa mi d body. Consequently we find ques, they do not mental. What we will need most in the him active and progressive along all the lize how impo ter it is un- twentieth century is not more men with lines of 3 ncement. Indeed, he has til they see the ill-shaped child, a picture eclassical educations but a higher type of been looked upon sincehis day of triumph of themselv. manhood—robust mankood; buoyant man- stion as an exampie of physical and mental A friend some days ago, as we were dis- hood. ippliea, Culture. 1 his spiritual side was cussing th t of inherited tenden- ~ Strong men, vigorous men, powerful neglected, consequently we find his sports cies, re at he had some doubt men, succeed. Lineoln was one: a man the coming gener: manly truth of such u bellef. *“For who' used hand and praln_as one. Men “we have two chil- with sturdy legs, strong bac chests h b one very ough and powerful enough to bear and pastimes brutal and impure, the can- about as the past boys cer of immorality finally eating away the example indations. A foundation of his grand empire. dren i w needed vastly The A :an, who is the best example muscular, in and somewhat fully the trying demands of mod- yming century of mod man, crowds the brain, and we weak, while I m. am quite an athlete r time-taking of the are glad to say is paying much attention and always pa 1tion to- health. ire vigorous men our boys must s en to the utmost mental o his s0 much so that we I said, “Yours be an exceptional be active, hearty and playful. ve d must ve an ec improvement upon ca ot ur wife? Is she ag Are we all doing our best to make the amount cal recreation and devel- STSs y a youth active and robust? Do we encour- 1 had not ghoug t age by volce and example vigorous life “Our oldest chl 2 RIVing &ports? Let us watch our boys while the youngest lined up hefore passing in at one of our you wére right public €chools. What do we see? Brigh inteiligent faces? The children ha to plenty of study, perhaps more than Is i- good for their physica development. No nd tice their bodies. How about them? A few marked influence 11 develoned as Gladly pon the er unfolding a s of our plie rymen. We enjoy the push mother a great de; of our “Yankee brethren.” takes after me. stion is, Are they living upon the in _our c after r and nerve of thelr own getting or _ You parents m bon the robust constitutions of those men Yyour children. who fought a good fight with nature in cally to become condition: man of the past living clos hand from storm and v virtue of ctive and act, he paid little or no at- well be re not fit get to work tention t ther physical or mental de- old New England? It was men like those by v 3 i and attention to you see eract, well knit, robust, whose velopment who stored up enough bodily vigor for a common - health rules make men and faces show vigor; hut the majority are As the ries passed on we find the multitude of our countrymen to exist; Wwomen c You ean do it. v stooped, narrow of chest and mar paying marked these unthinkingly sacrifice health for A s s ke pi ke often- too fut or too thin, and could attent and mental cul- val & bubbles. i in the lack of {5 nut down a A physical specimens. ture n athlete and son for dwelling so extensively give to the child regarding his Compare them with the!r country cousing. e R I e loved becat they 1 this matter is because, as has been Teach vour boy that hiz body s for Put a tape around the chests. Do you 4 ¥ el B ey Ca b gave and bodily con- well said, the development of the child Teach him that his body is the expression wonder that the country turna out bettes =t TR Roo = e iTOT trol wan must le to man- begins many years before his birth. Some of mind and soul. 7Tell him the sacred- men than the city? Why is it that countrs bhood by showing himeelf developed to a past a gentleman visited our as- ness of pure manhood. Let him und boys who come into town for their higher e 1mo: education highegt hor alwavs carry off the ? What other reason than feal make eet standard, ke said. The Roman de- spised a weakling. Some have a d 1 bringing with him his son, a 1d that he should cultivate his br. and stated that he desired very as vigorously as circumstances will ave his son take our course in low, but b; stor DEVELOPMENT OF <HEST idea that develop the physical powers no means let him think that a beiter vh dwarfe the mental capa nd lessens hoping to remedy his physical his brain is a storehouse for all he can If our boys are not they should the energies. The Roman knew better; As one Jooked from father to son, put into it, at the expense of his body. be physically there is a cagse for it. Func- he was athlete, states warrior. phil- with half an eve he could see the exact Let him get his mental culture in connec- tion makes structure. If- a boy has the osopher. The Roman realized that power resemblance in body and countenance. tion with the proper unfolding of his right kind of exercise and plenty of it he lay in the round development of both The protruding abdomen which the father physical capaci will be properly developed. True, puplis ALL READY Go/ iERB is coasting going on right the top of a long, lcy slope? Ever say I'd like to see it everywhere h the State up the hill, sir!" came from a dozen or miss. here in California. “One, two, three, let her go,” and start that theré are boys and girls, for it's one volces. “Come on, have a slide!” said a A hiliside covered with ripenin, thick. nly one or two sleas were troned Time was when the Bastern boy ZPPIng down the hill, skimming the hard 'ghegg ';vggfiltime-o S ho-ptltnble little fellow in blue overalis, can be made a very slippery sl.fi,‘*fi: !fll';e oun'lenm being polished and waxed. Th and girl crowed over their Califo now like the wind? Aw! You haven't ght or ten boys and a fol- barefooted and bareheaded. first sled that goes down has a slow time the sutocseve shal, 19, never as siic the successive siides. the runners ge g > lowing of girls going up a long hill, with They were coming at a splendid rate, of it, y v - A nia cousins because the land of sun- EOt any snow here. Aw! What do you {mmense unpainted single sleds on’ thelr 2 That was indeed & COASTNE DArty. At fhe h;:{ B ‘i;,‘;‘.;‘{‘;;"fi"“ in out of concition by inaction. shine permitted no coasting such as the XMOW about fun, anyway? backs. times the sleds went fast and smoothly, soon accomplisp this, and a perfoct cor ;,iN¢ Sleds are about four feet lo e s s of ou boys and girls, just tell them that I tied my horee under the shade of a then they would slow up, when the chu’ ing ground is established. & fou pogls LWO feet wide. The seat is on the extr every educatio; the E sald they; 55 beedn't talk any inore. giant live oak and started out in the bofi- dren would push with their hands and go it extremely slippery. Tt 0g makes back, being a broad brace, and three very n h know how, you can coast ing sun on a tour of inspection, overtaking earth are you doing in this hot sun?’ on. If a sled struck a bunch of E The coasting re- row braces in 2 e coasting ix the best fun fhere is made for out Here ax well as anybody can in Siber- the climbers about half way up the hill - They looked at one another in some SOrt hound, over the outit would 5o, only 1o Bronnd by the dages"ass IS Worn off tho ners ih firm Shape. The sloie have young America. 1f you dom't coast, thev ia, and have your glorous climate all the 1 called to @ boy: “Hello, there! What of dismay, as if they had never taken the be at’ once righted and started beyond. is started. The pastime i ry cOUrSe tops. A brake is put on either side. Tn bragged, you are strictly not in it. Ever Umc besides. 5 are vou doing? trouble to name their pastime; then one If a sled refused to shy at,poison oak, off children, and their sleds ar coasters generally carry the sleds up ! make & long bob sled by nailing a plank 10 YoU know that a grassy Californla The entire flock stopped with faces tull blg boy, whose vocabulary was broad, would rull the enthusiastic' youth, pick up bovs makes his own.: g the rioUS: Bach on their backs, and the wise ones & vol 10 three or four sets of runners? they - Lhgson a ‘arne Jada §o (O ke, Your of surprise and curiosity, mingled with very politely repiied: “Coasting, wiri’ his sled and himself, and start beyond the lot astonished me yasst rincKINE Of the going up the course for the sake of M Bl o ver bt on ey uy Sleds on @ warm day? Let me tell you alarm. Undoubtediy they took me for u “Coasting?’ 1 shouted, with not & few polon. fThe older’ ones managed (he Solld Dieces of mora e NG runmers were foothold, and 1o save the Inin #vase fro- " : e at what T saw the otner day near Pasadéna. landiord. 1 called out again: “What on sueers. "Where are you going?" “Why. brakes, but the younger came down hit pattern, from lumber at Toane Gy, fled being caught up or turned: . . 1. E. STRAW.