A SHORTHAND METHOD
We call this system the "Daily Dozen Set-up." It is a shorthand system of setting-up exercises for use on any and all occasions.
The "Daily Dozen Set-up" consists of twelve exercises which, for ease in memorizing, are divided into four groups of three exercises each. Each exercise or movement is given a name, and the names of all the movements of a group commence with the same letter, thus:
GROUP I GROUP II GROUP III GROUP IV
1. Hands 4. Grind 7. Crawl 10. Wave
2. Hips 5. Grate 8. Curl 11. Weave
3. Head 6. Grasp 9. Crouch 12. Wing
These exercises are not difficult nor exhausting, and do not demand great strength for their proper execution. They are designed, both from a scientific and a practical point of view, to give exactly the right amount of exercise to every muscle of the body. They are intended to promote suppleness, and especially to strengthen those muscles which are seldom brought into play in ordinary daily life. A conscientious fifteen minutes a day with the "Daily Dozen" will soon do more for a man than any amount of skilled physical feats or "strong-man stunts." When one first practises these movements their effect will be felt on the little-used muscles of the neck, back, and stomach; yet they will not leave the pronounced muscular fatigue which follows the ordinary exercises and which does more harm than good.
HEALTH MAXIMS
Dress to be cool when you walk and warm when you ride.
Clean skin, clean socks, clean underwear every day.
Getting mad makes black marks on the health.
Sleep woos the physically tired man; she flouts the mentally exhausted.