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Labor-saving machines bring weak muscles, 3.

Laborer, development of the, 9.

Laugenbeck on pulmonary diseases, 237.

Laughing, 70.

Lawyers need good bodies, 59, 61.

Leg, how to develop, 166.

Legislators, sons of strong mothers 50.

Legs of blacksmiths, 6.

Lehmann, R. C., 124; on longevity of athletes, 477, 478.

Leonard, Hugh F., on wrestling, 485.

Lewis, Dr. John A., on consumption, 205.

Life insurance companies could support State physical directors, 110.

Life, lengthening your, 72.

Lifting develops thighs, 176.

Lincoln, Abraham, 350; war-strain on, 131; body of, 350; as an orator, 472; as a wrestler, 485; judgment of, 485.

Ling's system of gymnastics, 99.

Liver, fourth-rate, 19; as sewage-factor, 64, 65; a sponge, 69; held high secretes bile better, 101; torpid, exercise for, 182.

Loins, how to develop, 187.

Lombard, Dr., thinking-organs filled by work, 130.

Longevity extended by physical exercise, 109; of oarsmen, 477.

Low tackling, 16.

Lowell, James Russell, walking of, 69; lectures in Boston, 484; lecturers in Boston, 484.

Low-heeled shoes, 69.

Luke, Dr., 109.

Lung capacity, 69, 100; and staying power, 100; enlarging, 23; cramping, 23.

Lungs, as sewage-factor, 34; made strong by exercise, 52; testing, 95; filling the, 100, 101, 236; held high use more air, 101; of wheelman should be examined, 178.

Luther, 283; body of, 57, 285, 470; neck of, 207.

Lycurgus, physical education in his time, 79.


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Maclaren, Professor Archibald, 98, 104; some results of his work, 134, 135, 136, 139, 140; on chest-expansion, 142, 143; on development, 153; says that exercise oils joints, 153; legs of, 170, 171.

Maclaren, Ian, lectures by, 485.

Maclure, Dr. "Willum," 108.

McBurney, Dr. Charles, body of, 441.

McCormick, Cyrus II., 359; body of, 360.

Madame Anderson's walking, 47.

Madison Square Garden, racing and jumping at, 97; size of, as compared with the Coliseum at Rome, 487.

Magnetism, personal, 49.

Manikin in gymnasiums, 112.

Mansfield, Lord, 322; body of, 322.

Manufacturers' need of good bodies, 63.

Marquis of Salisbury and golf, 71.

Married women, exercise of, 38; carrying child in arms is often too heavy for, 39; not trained for it, 40; should exercise daily, 40; life prolonged by exercise, 40.

Marshall, Chief Justice, 305; body of, 306.

Mass-playing in football, 16.

Master of the Rolls, longevity of, 478.

Mathews, Professor, on Beecher's oratorical training, 474.

Measurements at Harvard, 80.

Mechanics, lack of development of, 6; Salzman as to, 7; Roberts as to, 7; Sargent as to, 8; defective physical training, 4, 482.

Men, daily exercise for, 231.

Mental work of girls, 28.

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