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All sorts of gymnastic feats were also exhibited, such as vaulting, tumbling and feats upon the slack and tight rope. Through such scenes the imperial pleasure party rode, until a high mountain appeared through an avenue cut in the forest, representing Mount Vesuvius during an eruption. Vast billows of flame were rolling to the skies, and the whole region was illumined with a blaze of light.
This art would probably go some way towards extending life under any circumstances, for it consists chiefly in deep and regular breathing, preferably of morning air, in swallowing the saliva three times in every two hours, in adopting certain positions for the body and limbs, which are also strengthened by gymnastic exercises, and finally, as borrowed from the Buddhists, in remaining motionless for some hours a day, the eyes shut, and the mind abstracted as much as possible from all surrounding influences.
Even the average ballet dancing, which is supposed to be the perfection of artistic movement, is merely a series of pirouettes and gymnastic contortions, with the theatrical smile of a pretty woman to throw the glare of a calcium light over the imperfections and dazzle us. The average ballet girl is not adequately trained, from the natural and artistic standpoint.
My meditations on the subject of my inferior stature led me to a determination to try what gymnastic practice could do to remedy the defect. For some thirty years, gymnastics, first introduced into this country, I believe, at the Round-Hill School at Northampton, then under the charge of Messrs. Cogswell and Bancroft, had languished and revived fitfully at Cambridge.
I don't know that any gymnastic performance ever surprised me more than this, though I have seen this very beast drop twenty feet from a window-sill on to a stone pavement without appearing to notice any particular change of level. Cats with so much plumage have probably their own reasons for not flying. Trembling all over with fright, I could not but observe that she was trembling too with rage.
And this is what the arts of music and gymnastic, when present in such manner as we have described, will accomplish? Certainly. Then we have made an enactment not only possible but in the highest degree beneficial to the State? True.
As there is no speed limit, and everyone drives at the top power of his engine, the skill required to drive without mishap is considerable. After a little rain the stone is covered with a layer of greasy mud, and to keep a car upon it at a high speed is positively a gymnastic feat.
All children liked to come to the shady garden, where Auntie Käte was always so kind to them. There was always plenty of cakes and fruit and hoops and balls and croquet and tennis, ninepins and gymnastic appliances.
James was far from liking this and when Cameron asked him if he would try another row he answered: "No, I am tired of it." "If you get tired so soon, I am afraid you will have to strengthen your arms by gymnastic exercises." "Oh, I am not tired. I don't feel like rowing." "Then suppose we walk back to the village. Does your way lie with ours?" "Nearly all the way," said James.
For teachers or those who have a sedentary occupation an hour's active exercise in the open air a three-mile walk should be supplemented by active gymnastic exercise. For people in good health, a mixed diet that is to say, a diet consisting of meat, vegetables, and fruit is the best. If the individual is not well, then the diet must be adapted to meet the needs of that particular case.
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