INDEX
Voice-power, developing, 238.
Von Hillern, Miss, walking by, 47.
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Waist-girth reduced nine inches, 101.
Walking, up-hill, 17; for women, 37, 42, 46, 47, 69; by college girls, 42; two hundred miles in one week, 42; how fast, 46, 69; daily, 69; how far, 69, 70; reducing weight by, 151; fast develops thighs, 174.
Wallace, 279; body of, 280.
Washington, pew of, 2; sketch of, 444; body of, 446; Rev. M. L. Weems on, as a wrestler, 446, 450, 453; as a jumper, 450–452; early education of, 485.
"Watch on the Rhine," singing, 96.
Wear and Tear, 130.
Webster, Daniel, 107, 342; way of working, 56; head of, 206, 344; body of, 343, 469; Carlyle on, 345; as a wrestler, 346; chest of, 347; presence of, 348; Sydney Smith on, 469; "a steam-engine in breeches," 469.
Webster, Sir Richard, 396.
Weight, how affected by exercise, 49; reducing, by exercise, 147, 148; by riding, 148; Bismarck's, reduced after seventy, 148; Roberts's pupil of seventy-two, 148, 149; by exercise and perspiration, 150; by walking, 151; students', how affected by exercise, 153, 154, 155.
Weight-lifting, 99.
Wellesley College, physical education at, 34, 37; walking at, 42.
Wellington, Duke of, 314; vigor of body of, 55, 56; body of, 318.
Wesley, John, 293; body of, 294; preaching of 42,000 sermons by, 471; muscular development of, 471; nerve of, 471.
West Point, exercises, 17; setting-up drill, 31; erect carriage at, 35; horseback riding at, 35.
Wheeling, 71, 234; not so good for whole leg as running, 178.
Wheelmen, 171; should have heart and lungs first examined, 178; are generally poke-necked, 179; Roberts's hints to, 179.
Wheels, number of, in United States, 179.
Wheel-work develops chiefly the thighs, 176.
William the Conqueror, 277; body of, 278.
Wilson, Professor John, body of, 436.
Winship, Thomas, the oarsman, 481.
Women, American, as walkers, 10; swimming by, 23; exercise for, 37, 43, 229; debility among, 37; arms of, not developed, 37; nervous disorders among, 37; health of, 37; strength of, 38; ordinary work of, only partly develops, 38; in-turning feet of, 41; mountain-climbing by, 42; rowing by, 42; arms of, 43.
Wood-sawing as a developer, 134.
"Work incessantly "—Carlyle, 73.
Workers, Christian Training-school of, 83.
Working-power of man equals vitality, 66.
Worry, 54, 63; burns men out early 7, 63; defined, 64; effect of, 64; exercise as a factor in preventing, 64; remedy for, 64.
Wrestler's bridge, 209.
Wrestling, 99; develops the sides, 178, 182; Milton on, 291, 485; of Washington, 446, 450, 453, 485; makes men large, tall, brave, 485; of Lincoln, 485; Hugh F. Leonard on, 485; Professor Hitchcock on, 485; Neligan on, 485; Americans not generally good at, 486; if we were it would benefit our nation, 486; soldiers at, 486.
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