The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1902, Page 10

seem 1o ger ected exercl; s ease, be first place, go slowly. Remem- at the muscle grow and that they won't rk that your: a bend touck onder e used you can without stopping. But a littie child. oungster flat on the floor and tell bim to =it up without bending his knees. He won't be ble to do it. He will scramble up with his knees bent like a Hold tl what comes o Lairply knee fiat down and see it Look out for the muscles of the legs. These will require Jess attention, per- haps, than the others, for they get exer- ZE /‘1"71:7'0'5*1"!55’5 Trovcrzz your youn the ance. ie trunk lie on raise h Kkness and ion, the his b perpendicular pe will take n straight with the 1 and after t with both legs at Tkere is an inclination to tip over back- i some ti ne t do tr ward when this exercise begin ou find for yourself if you try it. Be ful that the enterprising youth does and on the K of his n for that e balancing feat not on tramns the leg muscles, but helps nerve control as Tell your boy or girl to stand cn > foot as long as possible, hoiding the other extended horizontally. The little arms will reach out, clutching at air for a bal- Time the perfor: ich u will find it increasing i from one foot to the other, There is more fun if you fldren together for a jolly rivalry springs up and ration of competition begins, er kicking exerclse is this: ce € day length. of An 1d lie face downward, then foot up and forward, bending at g should be in time to strike his his heels. In time, too, it can both fect at or is still face downward teach r exerc Have rm raise son his elbows, then upon his ve him extend the legs flat ana the knees in alternate counts. he can come to aees-and- sition and extend the Icgs 2 s in su on, bending ea side to he does ic. It in the worid and should not fired to little people alone. For the s, put the hands thumbs backward until they side a exercls to reiax whole be be con- ankies, on th meet at the back of the walst, then rise on toes he as high as possible. Go down very let the heels thump. of the little bending exercises giv- dancing schools are good for the kies and insteps. Easy danc- > pretty and useful. The Eng- sh waltz, given in a slow count of three o0 that the parts of the step are sepa- rate and do not merge into one, is excel- lent. T h deep breathing from the begin- ning. Begin vour daily exercises with it, cl them with it. See that the little chest is expanded to its fullest capacity, then have the air expelled through the open lips. Always have them closed for inhalation. With the hands on the hips try a knee- bending exercise. Bend as far s possi- ble. Then try the same with the hands FPiioros s STANFORD STUDLIO stra‘ght t the sides, letting the tps of the fingers touch the floor. They won't do it at first. The bending won't go far with practice it can ea: a weei and the goal for. ow for the chest. The breathing is really enough of itself to a: re a gool development: but I stra there are ways to aid w up the fists to the ght out at the sides. the breat chest, eibows Stretch the arms out, keeping them hor- izontal. Do this with arms separate, then togetner. Pizce the tips of the fingers on the ders, clbows out at’the sides. Ex- tend full length, then replace. The biceps will be strengthencd b, these motic as well as the shoulders and chest in looking out for the bi- ceps don the forearm. One sim- ple little cxercise will @o enough for this. Extend the s straight in front, extend the hands well, then elinch and un- clinch the fists. it is i & to see for yourself, or feel r. what this accomplishes. To test it, do it with one hand alone while vou clasp its forearm with the other. There! Don’t you feel the muscle at work irside? Place the finger tips together above the head. Hold them tight together, then the arms in great half-eircles, to the floor, over the head, back and forth. Place the hands on the hips—Ilet it be understood that the thumbs are always toward the back and as ncar meeting as possible—then bend the body to the right side, to the left, forward, backward. Both of the above exercises bring the trunk muscles into good play and relax the whole body at the same time. It Is the best thing in the world for a child to lay it on the floor and roll it as you would roll a frolicsome puppy. This has to be done gently with a delicate child, but it will soon Tearn to stand harder handling. A fastidious mamma will see are worn during these acrcbatics. In fact, there is no use trying any of the exercises In clothes that have to be taken care of. Let the youngster relax in this respect as well as in every other. Over- alls are good for girls as well as boys— they get perfect freedom and the soil doesn’t show cn their brown surface. The youngster will enjoy the thing all the more if you have a little gymnasium suit made. Blouse and trousers can be cut in one piece .as in the under part of a swimming sutt. All these things mean more to the city child than to the one who has a chance to romp in the country. But even there, there come rainy) days that have to be spent Indoors, and you can make a play- ground of the house if you will EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKES. HE losses of life and property in- cldent to such fearful catastrophes as that which recently occurred in the Lesser Antilles are the great- est but by no means the only ca- lamities following in the train of such cataelysmic events. The cuect upon the survivors of such scenes of horror and death have sometimes been of the most painful character. Most of the survivors of the disaster which befell the town of Caracas early in the last century were for a long time subject to nervous disorders. T y would upon the ground and d accuse themselves of rary crime At Phil- ria), ag: , after the earth- several persons lost the use of their iile upon other oc- casions, as at ssa in 1955, there have been paralytic patients reg e of their limb: These instances of Ik craracter e deep and an eart town and populated n indians afraid t be g W from vhich the towns and vil- 1 built, in the vast litudes of the Orinoco and the Magdale human - not less rmed this phe- ch terriiles even the wild the meonsters of als are in mortal tes- hquake, and Humboldt ocodiles of the:Orinoco, and r during.ar ates that he ¢ geverally as silent as the ordinary lizard, escape in haste from the heaving bed of that stream and make off with piteous groans toward the forest. During the shock which occurred in the canton of Valais (Switzerland) in 1855, the owls, which are, as a rule, the most timid and suspicious of birds, gathered upon the trees nearest to the houses, while other birds, such as swallows, took thelr fiight toward other lands. It has been noticed in the West Indies and elsewhere that, during an earthquake, domestic ani- mals, such zs the ox and the horse, will get close to. each other and tremble all over. During the series of earthquake shocks in Caiabria 100 years ago thetdogs howi®d so loudly and dolefully that they were killed, and the same was the case at Philippeville in 185%; while at Bougie, in Algeria. the very nightingales and other song birds were so struck with terror that none of, them uttered a note for more than a week. During the violent shocks which occur- red in Spain during September, 1884, some were formed and mous crevices FNYGER 2y houses were swallowed. Along the table- land of Quito in 1797 several cracks opened and ciosed in such a way that some peo- ple were able to escape by stretching out both arms. Many persons on horseback and mules laden with merchandise were TogETi7ER swallowed up, moving dly Humboldt r while others escaped by Alexander von backward. s that on this occasion Pouses sank into the earth with so little damage that the oceupants, safs from all injury, were able to open the inside doors and it their deliverance for two w! TY went from Toom to room with lighted torches to see thelr way, cooked their food and dfs- cussed with one another the chances of their being rescued. Among the most curious effects of earthquakes must be reckoned the deep wells, which open instantaneously and which are found to be full of water or sand to their mouth, the latter, being, as a rule, round and convex, and nearly always surrounded with a layer of slime. The most celebrated of these basins, n respect to number;” dimensions and sym- met se at Rosarno, in Calabria, which had their origin in the two earth- quakes of 1 Immediately after the shock most of these wells had the shape of a funne! inside and looked lfke small ponds, some filled with water and others with sand, which came right up to the face. This fact might possibly be ex- plained by the large quantity of earthy substances forced up to the surface, which, accumulating, produced an ob- which the water, raised from the depths of the globe, could not surmount. The Wallachian earthquake In 1838 lasted from January 11 to January 28 and 3 to many large crevices, one of Beltschuk, communicated gulfs, from which were nd and water. During the earthquake In 1855 a farm of ten disappeared and the who was some nce off, saw 1land g 1ly engulfed be- the earth and a stacl which with a number ¢ near acres of water bubble up upon hquakes metimes occa- disturbance in the water district. While a severe ess rivers and lakes un- and the level of their waters is either raised or depressed all at once. At times the waters of a stream are ted in a fresh direction, impelled ck after which, ha ved their former bed, ha made a fresh one for them, by either raising or lowering, as tne case may be, the ground around them. In 1546, after a violent rthquake, w h destroyed cities of chem and Rama, the waters of the Jordan first began to fall and then disappeared suddenly, the bed of the stream remaining dry for two days and two nights, but upon the third day the stream again filled. During the Andalw sian earthquake in 1384 the river Cogol- los suddenly altered its course and all the streams and rivulets agound the vil- lage of Guevjar disappeared, while the bed of the river Almachar, in the same district, was riven asunder, and its wa- ters inundatéd the surrounding country, which it was no longer possible to irri- gate. At times the water of rivers and large lakes rise like 2 mountain to a great alti- tude and in fal back submerges the surrounding cou The fall of this mass of water is alway ompanied by a terrible crash and it buries everything which comes in its way. Thus, on* Au- gust 26, 1556, during a violent underground earthquake in Honduras, a lake several leagues In extent suddenly overflowed and did more damage than the earthquake it- self.—Leslie’s Weekly. Probably no living person has quite so many godparents as Princess Irene, the wife of Prince Henry of Prussia, who possesses 4000 godfathers. She chanced to be born in 1566 during the war, and her father, Prince Louis of Hesse, asked all the officers and med of his cavalry brig- ade to stand sponsors to the baby girl. The ceremony took place at the close of hostilities, and the name Irenme, which means “peace,” was appropriately be- stowed on the little princess.