The following Table shows in another form the Results of the System; not by Brief Courses or Periods of Voluntary Attendance, but by a Year's Steady Practice from Birthday to Birthday, with two Articled Pupils, the Younger being 16, the Elder 20:
| MEASUREMENTS, ETC. | INCREASE. | |||||||||||||
| Case. | Date. | Age. | Height. | Weight. | Chest. | Forearm. | Upper arm. | Height. | Weight. | Chest. | Forearm. | Upper arm. | ||
| Yrs. | Ft. | In. | St. | Lbs. | In. | In. | In. | In. | Lbs. | In. | In. | In. | ||
| A. | 1861, Oct. 17. | 16 | 5 | 23/4 | 7 | 10 | 31 | 8 | 91/4 | |||||
| 1862, Apr. 17. | " | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 341/2 | 10 | 111/4 | 11/4 | 16 | 31/2 | 2 | 2 | |
| " Oct. 17. | 17 | 5 | 43/4 | 9 | 3 | 36 | 10 | 111/4 | 3/4 | 5 | 11/2 | " | " | |
| Subsequent Measurement. | ||||||||||||||
| 1863, Mar. 23. | 18 | 5 | 63/8 | 10 | 10 | 371/2 | 111/4 | 13 | 15/8 | 21 | 11/2 | 11/4 | 13/4 | |
| B. | 1862, Feb. 24. | 20 | 5 | 81/2 | 10 | 13 | 34 | 111/4 | 113/4 | |||||
| " Aug. 24. | " | 5 | 87/8 | 11 | 4 | 381/2 | 12 | 123/4 | 3/8 | 5 | 41/2 | 3/4 | 1 | |
| 1862, Feb. 24. | 21 | " | 11 | 71/2 | 40 | 121/2 | 131/4 | " | 31/2 | 11/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | ||
| Thus in the year's work the increase was— | ||||||||||||||
| Height. | Weight. | Chest. | Forearm. | Upper arm. | ||||||||||
| In. | Lbs. | In. | In. | In. | ||||||||||
| With the younger | 2 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| With the elder | 3/8 | 81/2 | 6 | 11/4 | 11/2 | |||||||||
CONCLUSION.
In the first eleven chapters of this little book attempt has been made to call attention both to defects and lacks, resulting largely from not taking rational daily exercise, and to what such exercise has accomplished wherever it has been thoroughly tried. In the last two chapters have been suggested not a long and difficult system of gymnastic exercises needing a fully equipped gymnasium, a trained instructor, and years of work to master, but rather a few plain and simple exercises for any given part or for the whole body, and hints as to how to distribute the little time to be given to them daily. The teacher, the parent—the child even, without the aid of either—the young man or woman, the middle-aged and the old, will all find variety enough of work, which, while free from risk, will still prove sufficiently vigorous to insure to each a good allowance of daily exercise. All else that is needed is a good degree of the steadiness and perseverance which are generally inseparable from everything worth accomplishing.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] The faces of both men have, of course, been disguised.
[B] See (page [169]) how Mr. Bryant used those morning minutes, and how well he was repaid for it, too!