What Every Boy Should Learn

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 5, 12 January 1884, Page 3

What Every Boy Should Learn

■ Kveryb(«y should l«arn to lift him*elf by his 'hands, au<l to hold on for sometime. It is doc necessary to go iii=:"fi to a gymnasium to torn this. Boy*. 3'«f»the country in climbing trees arc .'soon able to lift themselves by thf bunds; Jc ia well ro have a pole placed horizontally, just high enough r to allew thd teet to be clear from the . . , growiii. With this and, a rope of „ good site banging down from a se-. ' iH cure fastening, many useful feats may 'be learned., The pole and rope may ' ~ ;be under a shed or in the barn. I'o . '. lift the body by the hands and to •■■ "Bibte along on the pole, to bang by one iiand, and to swing in various :•• ways, will greatly strengthen the arms and hands.: {he rope will allow of of the mdre difficult feat of climbing it* At first learn to climb the rope . by the. aid of the feet, pressing the rope 'etween them. After this learn to go up, using \ the bauds only. In roing down never dide, but go down „ hand-UDder-hand, other wise, the hand miiy be badly hurt. One' who can command himself while on a rope < may - -at times find. the ability to do so very viieful. It ts easily acquired, and the time spent in such exercises is by no -: ■■■'-. jneaus wasted, ;