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17727Or Sweetness, Loudness, or Deepness of Cry?
17727Or for the Exercise of his Body only?
17727Or for the Training his Horses?
17727See how they labour, as if Day and Night Were both too short to serve their loose Delight?
17727To find him?
12430Bethink thee, Lord? 12430 But are not these games very dangerous,"asks a careful mamma;"do n''t you find that boys get hurt very much by them?
12430And why?
12430But what greater compliment could I pay these old Puritans than this?
12430But what interests have you in common with a fast young man?
12430But what was the reason of their failure?
12430Did she go to school to- day?
12430How far does American education fulfil the wants of Human Nature, and wherein does it disregard them?
12430How shall these things be?
12430If we were to look round in a circuit of a hundred miles, how many of the Skitzland aristocracy should we find, think you?
12430It remains for us to ask, What are its bearings upon American education?
12430What do you think gives these blacklegs, men of not a tithe of your force and talent, such power over them?
12430What is the remedy for all this?
12430Who could be more devout than Saint Simeon Stylites?
12430Will she find these four noble parts of Human Nature sufficient for the task of living?
12430Will then devotion and conscience be sufficient for a noble manhood?
12430Will these three be sufficient?
12430Will they be found sufficient for a perfect life?
13574Are you going to let him get such a maximum of old man''s caution that he reduces to a minimum the young man''s courage?
13574But no sooner are school- days drawing to an end than we begin the mad rush-- toward what?
13574But what is the price?
13574Do you want your boy to fold his hands and say that because the chances are against him he will not try at all?
13574For what is the history of Youth?
13574Golf has been a godsend to the older man whose pocket- book can stand it, but what about the youth?
13574How can a youth whose blood is warm within sit like his grandsire carved in alabaster?
13574How can this way of living keep even a young man fit?
13574Is it any wonder that we abandoned such"setting- up"?
13574Is the price in this emergency too high to pay?
13574Now what was the average man to do this for?
13574Or did he intend to make of himself a professional weightlifter?
13574Shall we heed it?
13574To admire himself in the mirror?
13574Well, is n''t it worth it?
13574What was the object?
13574Why not commence now?"
13574You ask what this nation of ours will become, and in reply I ask you what will you make of your boys?
19208Are these stirring, vital forces the possession of favored classes only, or may they be obtained by anyone and everyone?
19208But why not be alive, vital, vivacious?
19208Can one who lacks enthusiasm and organic vigor obtain these valuable forces?
19208Can our organs be made to function more satisfactorily?
19208Can pulsating, vibrating, vitality of this kind be developed?
19208How is this to be avoided?
19208How may we promote their greater activity?
19208How much sleep do we need?
19208How, therefore, shall we build this internal, functional strength?
19208If you have failed up to the present to become a complete man, or a splendid woman, can you achieve these extraordinary rewards in the future?
19208In other words, can they be cultivated or developed?
19208THE DAILY REGIMEN CHAPTER I: Vitality-- What is it?
19208VITALITY-- WHAT IS IT?
19208What foods can be used as substitutes for meat?
19208Why add to the bitterness of your daily life by dragging up the lamentable past?
19208Why do people instinctively prefer a rocking chair as a source of comfort, even when they do not rock?
19208Why harbor past experiences that only bring sorrows to mind?
19208Why hate anybody?
19208Why is it that men commonly like to tilt a chair backward on the hind legs?
19208Why not be alert, keen, energetic, enthusiastic, ambitious, bubbling over with fiery ardor?
19208Why not make it a strong machine, and as perfect as possible?
19208Why not possess the physical energy of a young lion?
19208Why pass along to your friends and acquaintances pain, sorrow and gloom?
19208Why waste your nervous energies by trying to"get even"with a fancied enemy?
22005Now wait!--even I already seem to share In God''s love: what does New- year''s hymn declare? 22005 After all, what is rest? 22005 After walking a short distance do you feel exhilaration or depression? 22005 As a matter of fact, how do we actually greet the morning? 22005 Can you co- ordinate an open throat and active retention of breath in laughing out a tone? 22005 Can you keep your chest expanded and laugh at the same time? 22005 Can you keep your chest fully expanded and pivot the torso? 22005 Can you keep your chest well expanded during the stretch? 22005 Can you laugh out a tone? 22005 Can you make tone as easily as you smile? 22005 Can you spurn fear''s coward whine, Meet each day with joyous song? 22005 Can you wake as wake the birds? 22005 Costs it more pain that this, ye call Agreat event,"should come to pass, Than that?
22005Do we awake as Pippa did, with a joyous song of praise?
22005Do we give thanks for the new opportunities given us, the new possibilities of enjoyment, the new share in the life of the world?
22005Do we not, in fact, find here a beautiful illustration of the proper mode of meeting the sacredness of dawn?
22005Do we pour out our hearts in gratitude that it brings a new day, a new life?
22005Do we understand how to use the least actions and the most neglected movements for the development of character and the satisfactions of life?
22005Do you breathe through your nose or through your mouth, especially when asleep?
22005Do you feel great satisfaction after stretching?
22005Do you find any special weaknesses?
22005Do you practice exercises in dual, triple, or quadruple rhythm?
22005Do you practice exercises standing at an open doorway?
22005Do you practice the exercises on waking in the morning?
22005Do you relax completely in the middle of the day?
22005Do you sleep well?
22005Do you sleep with your windows wide open?
22005Do you use soft gentle tones in every day conversation?
22005Do you walk rhythmically?
22005Do you walk with expanded chest?
22005Has not man seemingly lost the significance of this sacred hour?
22005Have you a pole from which you swing in your closet?
22005Have you ever noticed a dog or cat wake up?
22005He said,"What are you doing here?
22005How could that red sun drop in that black cloud?
22005How long?
22005How many times do you repeat each exercise?
22005III WHAT IS AN EXERCISE?
22005In lying down?
22005In sitting?
22005In their joy and singing share?
22005In walking?
22005Is it not also the time when we are most apt to be tempted?
22005May we not find her first thoughts and feelings worthy of study and her example one to be followed?
22005Now where do you feel the most constriction?
22005Of course, the primary aim is the good deed, but are not the kind tone, word and polite bow fully as necessary?
22005Of whom[ or of what] shall I be afraid?
22005Or, if these questions are too serious, too difficult for a short answer, should we not, at least, try to realize what is an exercise?
22005Quick as larks on upward wing, Can you shun the demon''s wiles, Promptly as the robins sing, Can you change all frowns to smiles?
22005Stretch your limbs as do the herds, And drink as deep the morning air?
22005Taking a full breath and laughing, do your feel your throat passive?
22005This is one of the most important tests of an exercise,--does it affect easily, naturally and normally the vocal organs?
22005What are some of its principles?
22005What are some of the effects of these exercises?
22005What are the differences in the practicing of exercises in the morning and evening?
22005What can we do with ourselves by obeying nature''s laws?
22005What chaotic movements have you discovered in your standing?
22005What constrictions or congestions have you found?
22005What exercises do you take on retiring?
22005What exercises do you usually take?
22005What is an Exercise?
22005What is drudgery?
22005What is rest?
22005What is the trouble?"
22005What new hobby, you may ask, is the theme of this book?
22005What other meaning do these verses bear?
22005What, do you ask, has such a poetic drama to do with such a commonplace subject as health or the prolonging of life?
22005When talking to someone who speaks in a high pitch can you act in the opposite way, and speak in your softest tones?
22005Wherefore repine?
22005Who has not felt a certain depression, at times even of sickness, after antagonism or giving up to despondency?
22005Who has not felt a deep feeling of bitterness, almost of poison, after a fit of anger?
22005Whom shall I fear?
22005Why do so many, on waking up, begin to worry over the difficulties of the day?
22005Why not smile as Pippa smiled and meet our blessings with thanksgiving?
22005Why"small"?
36557''How long a stretch?'' 36557 ''What for?''
36557Ca n''t I have it earlier?
36557Well, then, ca n''t you get down earlier in the morning?
36557Why not write it the evening before?
36557And are they less precious in any other line of life?
36557And does not a lawyer need a good body, and one kept in good order?
36557And had it, instead of one hour a week, been two or three, or even an hour a day, might not the results have been even more gratifying?
36557And he well adds:"Now who shall tell the value of these five inches of chest, five inches of additional space for the heart and lungs to work in?"
36557And how is it with their mothers?
36557And how is the large chest to be had?
36557And how is this done?
36557And is it any better with the married woman?
36557And is justice to be cheated out of her victim after all, even now, when she a second time is sure that she has reached the point?
36557And so comes what legitimate result?
36557And their clubs-- of what use would they be if the culprit was a block away?
36557And what about the old people?
36557And what good would their weapons have been?
36557And what if this daily exercise, beside the bodily benefit and improvement which ensues, should also bring actually better mental work?
36557And what is the result?
36557And what should a woman do to get this health and strength and bloom?
36557And what sort of man is he who is thus too free with his weapon?
36557And what training have these men for this trying work outside of what the fire itself actually gives?
36557And what will he do?
36557And who believes that officers always report their failures to catch thieves, or that the public ever hears of one- half of such cases?
36557And who knows what he can do till he tries?
36557And why?
36557And will this only apply to men''s arms, and not to women''s?
36557And yet is not that just what is going on to- day with a great majority of the young girls in our land?
36557Are not the majority of our women to- day, especially in town and city, physically weak?
36557Are we not behindhand, and far behindhand, then, in a matter of serious importance to the well- being of the people of our country?
36557But are the schools of Boston to- day taking the care they ought to and could so easily take to make the children healthy and vigorous?
36557But does he get it?
36557But does it?
36557But have these graduates had a competent instructor at college to look after them in this respect?
36557But how can that be done?
36557But how is it with the sturdy laborer?
36557But how often does this happen?
36557But if the school- days are past and the girl has become a woman, what then?
36557But in what shape would it leave him in a few years, or even in a few months?
36557But is this great and unusual strength, especially of the arms, desirable in most women?
36557But what has he done with men?
36557But what is being done for their bodies?
36557But will not this hour''s work dull him mentally?
36557But will not this physical training dull the mind for its work?
36557But, while this is all well enough for young girls, is it not too late for full- grown women to attempt to get the same benefits?
36557Can there be much doubt as to the result a few years later?
36557DO WE INHERIT SHAPELY BODIES?
36557DO WE INHERIT SHAPELY BODIES?
36557Did Charles Dickens''s seven to twelve miles afoot daily interfere with some masterly work which his pen produced each day?
36557Did not the vigorous body at the start, and the daily attention to it, pay him?
36557Do these things make no difference to the divine?
36557Do we not want some system of education which shall rear men, not morally and intellectually good alone, but good physically as well?
36557Does not this show a lack of sense, and especially when much of that work could certainly have been done by subordinates?
36557Does the gymnasium, then, pay?
36557Had Bryant spared himself as most men do, would he have been such a springy, easy walker, and so strong and handy at eighty- four?
36557Had not this wonderful man much to thank these same qualities for?
36557How about the length of time this daily exercising will take?
36557How many boys can pitch with either hand?
36557How many conquests does the blue- stocking make through her extensive knowledge of history?"
36557IS IT TOO LATE FOR WOMEN TO BEGIN?
36557IS IT TOO LATE FOR WOMEN TO BEGIN?
36557Indeed, does not this hour a week, in some instances, insure an after- life, and snatch not a few from an early grave?
36557Is it all a mere chance that they happen to have splendid bodies?
36557Is it any wonder that the neglected body develops some partial weakness, or too often general debility?
36557Is it any wonder that this overdoing of muscles never trained to such work must sooner or later tell?
36557Is it asking too much?
36557Is it not worth while to make the effort?
36557Is not that rather a dear price to pay for such intellectuality?
36557Is not this, then, remaking a man?
36557Is there any need of pointing out to a spirited girl the value of a sound, healthy, and shapely body?
36557Is there any possible reason why the city lad should be favored physically like the country boy?
36557Is there any question in which of these two institutions the young man would make the most desirable progress?
36557Is there any question what the result would be?
36557Is there any work which will increase the weight of each, and bring desirable roundness and plumpness of trunk and limb?
36557Is there anything feeble about any of these?
36557Is there anything to make him swift of foot?
36557Is there no lesson for our city rulers in such facts as these?
36557Is this asking much?
36557Is this not an irrational and one- sided course, and sure to beget a one- sided person?
36557Is this not like giving great care to moral and mental education alone, and actually doing almost nothing for their physical nature?
36557Now, how long did these boys work?
36557Now, what have these few exercises done for the muscles and their owners?
36557Other than the corrections listed below, printer''s inconsistencies in spelling and punctuation have been retained: changed"spent mainly indoors?"
36557Then, as it is used so little, is it worth having?
36557WILL DAILY PHYSICAL EXERCISE FOR GIRLS PAY?
36557WILL DAILY PHYSICAL EXERCISE FOR GIRLS PAY?
36557Was not one of Daniel Webster''s best points his skill in getting work done by others, and saving for himself the parts he liked best?
36557Well, but did all this increase of weight and size actually change the shape of the chest, for instance, and take the hollowness out of it?
36557Well, but is not the work which will effect such swift changes very severe, and so a hazardous one to attempt?
36557Well, what?
36557What does cutting one''s self down at fifty- two mean?
36557What does the athlete at the top of his condition know about nervousness?
36557What exercise has he?
36557What has he done?
36557What ought he to do?
36557Which of the two men showed the better sense?
36557Who will say that all these have not assured him years of life?
36557Will dumb- bells and weight- boxes be necessary?
36557Will her children like any better to inherit the same from her?
36557Will it be claimed that the president of one of the best- known corporations on this continent did any more work than Wellington?
36557Will some one name a college where they have such an instructor?
36557Would it hurt a fireman or a policeman any to have that feeling?
36557Would n''t most of us like to do that?
36557Would she like to have inherited consumptive tendencies, for instance, from her parent?
36557Would the latter not be more inclined to rely on his own strength, and less on his club?
36557_ Daily Exercise for Business Men._ And what daily work shall the business man take?
36557_ Daily Exercise for Consumptives._ And what should these people do?
36557_ Daily Exercise for Women._ And what should the girls and women do each day?
36557and is it practicable at all for a person sixty years old, or more?
36557into"spent mainly in- doors?"
36557or a school where, instead of building the pupil up for the future, more has been done than to insure his present health?
36557or is any great danger likely to result from their use?
36557would it take him from the thin, cadaverous fellow he too often is, and do all that for him?