CAN YOU PLAY A MAN’S PART?
If you are walking with your mother, sister or best
girl and some one passes a slighting remark or uses
improper language, won’t you be ashamed if you can’t
take her part? Well, can you?
We teach boxing and self-defense by mail. Many
pupils have written saying that after a few lessons
they’ve outboxed bigger and heavier opponents. The
lessons start with simple movements practised before
your mirror—holding out your hand for a coin, the
breast-stroke in swimming, etc. Before you realize it
you are striking scientifically, ducking, guarding and
feinting, just as if you had a real opponent before you.
“Oh, baby, maybe I wouldn’t like that!” Ted chanted. “I’ll tell the world! Gosh, I’d like to take one fellow I know in school that’s always shooting off his mouth, and catch him alone—”
“Nonsense! The idea! Most useless thing I ever heard of!” Babbitt fulminated.
“Well, just suppose I was walking with Mama or Rone, and somebody passed a slighting remark or used improper language. What would I do?”
“Why, you’d probably bust the record for the hundred-yard dash!”
“I would not! I’d stand right up to any mucker that passed a slighting remark on my sister and I’d show him—”
“Look here, young Dempsey! If I ever catch you fighting I’ll whale the everlasting daylights out of you—and I’ll do it without practising holding out my hand for a coin before the mirror, too!”
“Why, Ted dear,” Mrs. Babbitt said placidly, “it’s not at all nice, your talking of fighting this way!”