HOW TO GET STRONG
empty room, could quicker tell where your body needed filling out, and just how to do it; and to round you into a well-built, strong and vigorous man, easy and handy of movement, and liable to last.
For years he has held the responsible position of Physical Director of the Young Men's Christian Association of Boston. But it is time that men like him and Sargent were taken from their restricted position, and put where they can do the most good. The public ought to have their best years. The State will be fortunate indeed which will make these two men its Commissioners of Physical Education. Then, not the thirty-three hundred men at Harvard; or a third as many at that Association; but the four hundred thousand children in all Massachusetts; or the hundreds of thousands in any other of our brightest and most forward States, which secures their services; will have the satisfaction of knowing that, at last, one of the best-known systems of sensible bodily education for children and youth, has been supplied to their State.
Join Sandow with them if you like; for who in all the world to-day has found out how to get strong and how to stay so better than this modest young Prussian? At ten, his picture and the proofs show that he was no stronger than five boys out of any fifty of his age in any of our schools; indeed he is said to have been naturally rather delicate. Not out of strong stock; his father a jeweller—the last employment to call for muscular effort—of medium height only, and small bones; he has yet hit upon a way of getting strong, which ranks him among the wonders of his time.[1] Going about doing
- ↑ Dr. Sargent says of Sandow—"That his skeleton is not large, but that his muscles are of extraordinary size, and their fibres un-
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