No. 42. Grasp the middle of the wand with both hands, and whirl, as in the last, as far as you can, ten times.

No. 43. Same as the last, except the wand is held horizontal instead of perpendicular.

Figure 18.

Figure4 19.

No. 44. Seizing the wand as seen in Fig. 18, step backward and forward over it with the right and left foot, ten times. No. 45. Stand upright, heels together, grasp the wand at the extreme ends and hold it behind the body, keeping the arms straight. The right hand high up and the left hand low down. Now swing the left hand high up and the right low down, and so continue to change the relative positions of the ends of the wand, without bending the elbows, ten times.

No. 46. Charge the right foot diagonally forward, as seen in Fig. 19, five times. Now the left foot with the left hand Alternate five times.

raised high, five times.

No. 47. Same as the last, except that when charging with the right foot, you raise the left hand high, and vice versa.

The wand exercises from this point are performed in classes, and while marching.

No. 48. Marching as represented in Fig. 20, leap sideways as far as possible, first one foot and then the other, without loosing your relation to each other.

No. 49. Putting the two wands together, and holding them.

as represented in Fig. 21, leap sidewise as before, being sure to keep the shoulders back, and so leaping together that the two will move as one person. Be sure to keep the arms quite perpendicular over the shoulders.

Figure 20.

Figure 21.

No. 50. One person walking directly behind the other, take hold of the extreme ends of the wands, and then allow the hands to rest on the shoulders. Marching in this way, at the word of command "Up," raise the wands as high as you can, and as the right foot goes forward, thrust the right hand as far forward as possible, the left one at the same time being pushed as far back as possible, (Fig. 22,) and as the left foot comes forward, reverse the hands.

No. 51. Same as the last, except the right hand goes forward with the left foot, and the left hand with the right foot. In all these you must not bend the elbows, except when you are told to bend them.

No. 52. Still keeping your arms perpendicular, carry both of your hands forward as far as you can reach with your right foot, and as you step your left foot forward, carry both hands as far back as you can reach, and thus continue for ten steps.

No. 53. Same as the last, except that the hands go forward

with the left foot, and backward when the right foot goes forward.

No. 54. Bring the hands to the shoulders, and as the right foot steps forward, raise the right hands as high as you can reach. When the left foot goes forward, raise the left hands and bring down the right hands, and so continue to alternate ten times.

No. 55. Same as the last, except the right hands go up as the left feet go forward, and the left hands with the right feet.

No. 56. The two hands go up simultaneously with the stepping forward of the right feet, and come down as the left feet go forward.

No. 57. Same as the last, except the hands go up as the left feet go forward, and down as the right feet go forward. Be sure in the last four exercises that the arms go up and down quite vertically.

Figure 22.

Figure 23.

No. 58. Put the two wands together and take hold of them with one hand, as represented in Fig. 23, and marching side by side, leap sidewise right and left, keeping the wand as high as you can reach.

No. 59. Partners change sides and repeat the same.

No. 60. Carrying the wands as in Fig. 23, as you step forward with the right foot, bring the wand down so as to strike your right leg with the hand, and then as your left foot goes forward, carry the wand back to its vertical position, and so continue ten times.

No. 61. Change sides with your partner, and do the same again, only bringing your wand down as the left foot goes forward, and raising it as the right foot goes forward.

No. 62. Cross the hands on the two wands placed side by side, but instead of holding them over the head, as in Fig. 21, let them hang down in front, and carrying them thus, leap from side to side.

Figure 24.

Figure 25.

No. 63. Walking one in front of the other, and extending the arms horizontally, being careful not to bend the elbows, carry the right forward as far as possible with the right foot, as represented in Fig. 24, and simultaneously with this carry the left foot backward as far as possible. When the left foot comes forward let the left hand come forward too, and thus alternate.

No. 64. Same as the last, except that the right hand comes forward with the left foot, and vice versa.

No. 65. The same simultaneously with the right foot and with the left foot.

Be careful in the performance of the last four, that you keep the arms exactly horizontal from first to last.

No. 66. Walking one in front of the other, with the wands hanging in the hands on either side, carry one up as high as you can reach, as in Fig. 25, and then as the other foot goes forward, carry up the other while the first is brought down.

No. 67. Same as the last, except the right arms go up as the left foot goes forward, and vice versa.

No. 68. Simultaneously up with the right foot forward ten times, and the same with the left foot.

It is perhaps unnecessary to repeat that every motion with the wands is to be done to music. In making the changes from one exercise to another, this rule must not be forgotten.

It must not be forgotten that the feet, in every exercise, are to be kept at a right angle with each other.

EXERCISES WITH DUMB BELLS.

Within a few years I have devised a series of new exercises with the dumb bell. The entire series includes more than fifty exercises. I now take the liberty to ask a careful, discriminating examination by the anatomist and physiologist. I have never given so much study with reference to a surgical operation, as to each and every part of the body in adapting these exercises to our physical wants.

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Heretofore dumb bells have been made of metal. weight in this country has usually been considerable. The general policy at present is to employ those as heavy as the healthseeker can "put up." In the great German gymnastic insti