INSTEAD OF SHOULDER BRUGES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6111, 13 December 1898, Page 4

INSTEAD OF SHOULDER BRUGES.

A gymnasium director of long experience disapproves of shoulder braces. Thoy woiikon, ho ho Hi inks, the muscles wliosu function it is lo keep tlio shoulders in tlioir nonnnl position. This (hoy do in two ways —by rolioving tlio muscles of tlioir work, mid by putting ft constraint upon tlioin, mid so doprivo thorn of ut nonnnl supply of blood. Instead of artificial shouldor bracos tlio director recommends the frequent lind porsistont nso of oxercises especially adapted to promoto an ereet carnage. It ia not enough, ho says, to work nn hour or so daily in n gymnasium, I Tlio proper oxoreiso should bo taken many times n day, and, thorofore, should be of a soil that can bo practised nnywhero and without special apparatus. Some of tlio habits and oxorcisos on which ho lays stress are »5 follows: 1. Miiko it n villa lo keep the back of tlio neck closo to tlio back of the collar. 2. Roll tlio shouldors backwards and downwards. 3. Try to squeozo tlio shoulderblades together many times a clay. ■l. Stand otcd at short intervals dining tlio day-" head up, chin in, ohest out, shouldors back." 5. Walk or stand with the hands clasped bohind tlio head and the elbows wide apart, 6. Walk about, or ovon run upstairs, with from ten poutids to forty pounds on tlio top of ths head, 7. Try to look at tlio top of your high-cut vest to your necktie. 8. Practice the arm inovonienls of brenst-strokeswimmiug,wliilostnnd-ing or walking. !). Hold the arms behind the back. 10, Carry a cane or umbrella behind the small of tlio back or behind the neck. 11. Put the hands on tlio hips, with elbows buck and lingers forward.

12. Walk with the thumbs in the arm-holes of tlio vest. 13. When walking, swing the arm and Bboulder strongly backwards, 14. Stand now and then during die day with all the posterioi parti, of the body, as far as possible, touching a vertical wall. 15. Look upwards as you walk on tho sunny side of the street. The forogoiug exercises, it will be seen, are happily varied, and are, many of them, such as can be practised by anybody in almost any occupation. If ho cannot use one lie can

another. The director goes on to say that even in a gymnasium a man musi bo on his guard against forms of exercise that tend to induce a stooping posture. "As roundshouldered as a gymnast," he says, has almost passed into a proverb. Ho recommends also what lie calls a "lie-a-bedexercise," "Stand on the back of the head, the back shoulder, and the heels by arching tlio back," and repent the operation a dozen times or so.

Tho eyo speaks more truthfully than tlio tongue. Words are oflou spoken to conceal the thoughts, and the wiso man looks to the eyes for confirmation of what ho hours, At a bazaar held recently in tlie north, one of Dr. Brace's old cricketing caps proved a great attraction. A lady-stall-holder sold it for ia to a local cricketer.

At a late meeting of the Wostham, Sussex, School Board, a motion was down for the exclusion of tho press because of sensational headings, but as it was stated that tho reports wot'o accurate, tho maltor was allowed to drop. The magnitude of the Escurial, the great Spanish palaco, may be inferred from tho fact that it would taks four days to go through all the rooms and rpartmonts, the length ol the way being reckoned at twentythree Spanish leagues, which is about 120 English miles, Of the 33,771 recruits who joined the Army last year, 26,284 were raised in England, 8501 in Scotland, and yOiJli in lioland. Of the recruits, 1307 were under 17 years ol ngo, 189 of 17 years and under 18, 10,083 of 18 years and under 19, and 7105 of 20 and under 21, No fewer than 12,000,000 acres of land have been made fruitful in the Sahara desert, an enterprise representing perhaps the most remarkable example of irrigation ty means of the artesian wells which can anywhere be found,

More than 200 kinds of extinct life, including insects, reptiles, shell, plants, fruit, etc., have been found in amber. In one collection, which ik valued at £IOO,OOO, is a perfect lizard, eight inches long, . In Uotuic sculpture and tracery angels are' sometimes portrayeu practising on the bagpipes. Ibe pipes were occasionally used in cuurches before the introduction ol me organ, early in the lifteentb

ceulury. The late Mr James Payn's library whs sold lately by auction by Messrs Phillips. There were in all 133 lots, which were kuocked down at extremely low prices, only three lots realising moru than £1 each. Japan is going to send to the Paris Exhibition ut huge house, hexagonal in shape, and composed entirely of porcelain. It measures several yards in circumference, and its weight will not he less than seventy tons,

Kev. C. P. Edwards, a popular curate in Southwark, ou leaving for the vicarage of West Mersey, was preseuted with a silver tea-service by tho local police, in recognition of tho manner in which he hud oflou rendered assistance when constables were attacked by ruffians. Ho was known as the" lightiug parson," and made nothing of pulling elf his coat anil soundly thrashing a ruffian who was terrorising over tho people At Hayward's Heath petty session ibe chairman, Colonel Campion, referred to the victory in the Soudan which put an ond to a thirteen years reign of cruel tyranny, adding that lio felt stiougly ou tho subject, as he had a son engaged in tho light, He thought it would not be out of place to offer thanks to the Almighty for tho great victory. Asking tho Court to rise, he engaged in prayer, at the conclusion of which the ordinary business was proceeded with.

Peter Schomm, a brewer from Philadelphia, who recently sold his brewery to nn English syndicate, committed suicido at Niagara lately. Ho made his way to Goat Island, which is situated ou the brink of the fall, aud having stood for a moment on the edge of the island, shouted "Good-byo," and leapt into the water. A number of persons saw him swept over the falls and hurled down the river.

At an inquest on a young lady shop assistant in Bradford the mother stated that her daughter complained of being compelled to slnud, The coroner remarked that in some shops in Bradford the assistants had to stand nil day. If peoplo would pay as much attention to that kind of cruelly as was paid to cruelly to animals some good

might bo done, A farmer was charged at Woodstock with brutality to his wife. After brandishing a knife and threaleninetocut her throat, ho cut the whole of the hair off hor head with a blunt pockot knife, He was sentenced lo six months' hard labour, tho wifo was granted a separation order, the husbaud to allow hor £2 weekly for tho maintenance of hersolf and four children.