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Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ribute of thehuman race is common sense. Over-fullness of stomach will not makeup for emptiness of head. Many sentimental people are alsosemi-mental. Tight lacing never very greatly im-proves loose morals. Courts are institutions establishedthroughout or/ country for the purpo eof dispensing with justice. Open-mindedness is a rare virtue:open-mouthedness, a common vice. Some doctors use scarcely any scruplesexcept the scruples of the apothecariesweight. G. HEDDEN j The most highly fashionable resort ofhigh society is that resort of high tem-perature owned and managed by hisSatanic Highness. Perhaps it is to be expected thatwomen will use falsehoods to cover uptheir false hair. It is better to be even a swiller ofswine than a swiller of wine. If some people should take into theirbodies as much vile poison in one day asthey are in the habit of taking into theirminds every day. they would speedilybless the earth with their absence. The most stylish train in the world isthe Sin Special. I
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Castor Adonis Roth at sixteen months. Has slept out of doors winter and summer ever since the day of his birth. Dont he look it? Give the hot house flowers a chance to grow similar vigor. 352 The Average Man By Charles Merriles FROM a merely physical standpoint,what is the condition of the aver-age man? This is an interestingquestion. I have made thatquery of myself and of others a greatmany times. To look at the averageman, garbed in conventional clothing,no matter how handsomely he may beproportioned, you will usually find butlittle to admire. Of course, there area few exceptions where the health andstrength and fine proportions are of sucha superior order that they become evi-dent even through the clothing worn, butas a rule it is otherwise. A man mayhave a really superior form, but when heis dressed up in a manner to hide theshameful (?) outlines of his body, he isfar from presenting an attractive appear-ance. Whatever beauty the humanbody possesses is to a very large extentdestro

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