Aided by a minimum expense, light report, easily-acquired range facilities, and a most-fascinating system, might not the practice be carried to firing and hitting, which is the desired result?
This need not at all interfere with the manual, but can be practiced as an outside exercise; and the result of adopting it would be felt immediately by a company, not only in the ease and quickening of motion and the improved marksmanship, but in the increased interest it would create among the members.
CALIFORNIA
PARLOR ROWING BOAT APPARATUS.
(Patent Applied for.)
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| AS A ROWING MACHINE | AS A HEALTH PULL |
1. It teaches both arms to pull alike. 2. It compels the feathering of the oar. 3. The stroke is even throughout. 4. There is no aid or resistance to the return. 5. It is perfectly clean, as no oil should be used about it. 6. Slots in the casting, where the end of the oar is made fast to theout-rigger, permit the lifting of the blades in returning. 7. All oarsmen unite in pronouncing it a perfect teacher of rowing. 8. Men practicing in the double skull or four oared pattern MUST all do the same work, and their coach canstand over them and direct their actions. | 1. It exercises ALL the muscles of the body and strains none. 2. It can be regulated by the set screws to accommodate any strengthand size of person, and is as well adapted for the use of ladies andchildren as gentlemen. 3. Its use for five minutes each morning, immediately after gettingout of bed, will cure any case of dyspepsia, because of the easyexercise of the muscles of the stomach, the improved respiration andthe accelerated circulation of the blood. 4. The sliding seat aids fleshy people in taking the stroke, and forthem is a most excellent exercise. |
It takes but little room, is clean, and fascinates all, both ladies and gentlemen, because it is practical in teaching a useful and graceful accomplishment, and at the same time inviting health.