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PHYSICAL CULTURE FOR CHILDREN

women of a State—indeed of a nation. If it is a good thing to test each heart and pair of lungs, and nervous system in a university; why not also do the same for all our children in all our schools? These men could readily tell any local physician just what they wished him to examine and report. The weights, heights, and chief measurements could also be recorded. And they would soon devise a series of graded exercises which, if practised right in every school-room, in all weathers, without any apparatus; and taking but a few minutes a day; yet with windows open; minds refreshed; and blood sent coursing through every artery and vein; every brain and nerve in all the school would be the better for the pleasant diversion. And one good step would be taken towards a vigorous future for each one of the children.

And suppose that these veteran teachers should require all scholars to sing under the most judicious guidance; and with the best light they could get; taking care, as in all teaching, never to over-do; but aiming to give each child strong, healthy, vigorous capricious lungs; and a good idea how to use them. One writer says:

"Singing an Aid to Health—The time will soon come when singing will be regarded as one of the great helps to physicians in lung diseases, more especially in their incipient state. Almost every branch of gymnastics is employed in one way or another by the doctors, but the simple and natural function of singing has not yet received its full meed of attention. In Italy some years ago statistics were taken which proved that the vocal artists were especially long lived and healthy, under normal circumstances, while of the brass instrumentalists it was discovered that consumption never claimed a victim among them. Those who how a tendency towards consumption should take easy vocal exercises. no matter how thin and weak their voices may seem to be. They will find a result

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