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 such a chest and Agamemnon as resembling him; and such a one Anacreon desired to see in the image of the youth whom he loved. 'A prominent, chest,' says Professor Kollmann, 'is an infallible sign of a vigorous,  skeleton; whereas a narrow,, and, still more, a bent thorax is a physical index of bodily weakness and inherited decrepitude.—Romantic Love and Personal Beauty, p. 97.

Dr. Emerson's exercises, like Checkley's, call for no apparatus, yet are so efficacious that we saw one man the head of a large high-school who, at twenty-four, hollow-checked and dyspeptic, weighed but 133 pounds; yet by twenty-eight weighed 175 pounds, and—a five-foot-eight man—he had a magnificent figure also. But he worked at the Emerson exercises two hours a day to get this—two hours profitably spent for him.

Miss Jenness has dedicated her book upon Comprehensive Physical Culture to Dr. Emerson, and among the valuable suggestions with which it abounds she says: