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 much muscle. There hangs to-day—or did some time since—on the wall of a well-known New York gymnasium, a portrait of a gymnast stripped above the waist, which shows an exact case in point. The face of such a man is often a weak one, lacking the strength of cheek-bone and jaw so usual in men of great vitality and sturdiness—like Sullivan, for instance—and there is a general look about it as if the man lacked vitality. Many a gymnast has this appearance; for he takes so much severe muscular work that it draws from his vitality; and it gives him a stale and exhausted look; a very common one, for example, among men who remain too long in training for contest after contest of an athletic sort. This is seen in Figures 7 and 8. The first shows a fellow of twenty-four, rather weak than strong. The second is the same man four years later: with a large chest, deep rather than broad, but with muscles phenomenally developed—too large for his chest itself.

The getting up, then, of a large chest; and of large muscles on the chest; while often contemporary, and each aiding the other, are too frequently wholly different matters.

And how is the large chest to be had? For bodily education has no more important problem.

Mr. Finck has some apt words here:

"Magic effect of deep breathing. Indolence is the mother of ugliness. No one who realizes that absolute necessity to Health of a sufficient supply of fresh air, can wonder at the rarity of Beauty in the world, if he considers that nineteen people out of twenty are too lazy to breathe properly. It is estimated that there are from 75 to 100 cubic inches of air which always remain in a man's lungs. About an equal amount of supplemental air remains after an