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"An example of the physical deficiencies that can be found everywhere among girls who grow up with no attention to the need of physical development."

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Entire body too thin. Legs, arms, andchest need filling out with additional mus-cular as well as fatty tissue. A fair sampleof the physical condition of the averageinactive young girl. 210 PHYSICAL CILTTRE
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An example of the physical deficienciesthat can be found everywhere among girlswho grow up with no attention to the needof physical development. the form of women that has been pro-duced largely by the habit of corset-wearing. Study the figures of all thephotographs that have been reproducedin this issue and in the two previousinstallments of this article, and you willnot find in any one of the figures pre-sented therein any evidence of whatmight be termed a corset shape, althoughevery one of these women, as far as Iknow, was in the habit of wearingcorsets. They were of the ordinaryconventional type. The last figure in this article will giveyou a very fair idea of a well developed chest with a bust that is about normal.The arms, shoulders and neck of thisfigure are also well formed. In fact,this view of this figure furnishes one ofthe best examples of symmetrical pro-portions +hat has been presented inthis series. There is another pictureof the same woman in this article wherea front

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