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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on recovered, and apartfrom some recent troubles which he at-tributes to certain of his experiments, isbetter than he has been for a long time. But the list of the magnates of theStreet who have benefited by theteachings of physical culture, wholly orin part, might be extended indefinitely.Of Andrew Carnegie and his devotion tothe life healthy, to golf and other out-of-door sports, Physical Culture has butrecently spoken. Charles M. Schwabhas, according to report, given up theallurements of town life and will hence-forth devote himself to the charms ofcountry life and all that that means inthe way of natural living and aboundinghealth. Louis Carroll Root is anotherman of millions, who is said to be anardent follower of the principles ofphysical culture. Henry Clews comeshonestly by his love of the out-of-doorsand all things which make for a soundbody and a sound mind, by reason of hisBritish ancestry. Theodore P. Shonts,PaulMorton and others follow his ex-ample. And so the story goes.
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Group of Danish Girl Gymnasts. These magnificently developed young women illustratethe marvelous value of scientific body-building in the making of womanhood.. Magnificent Types of Womanhood By Charles Merriles REMARKABLE FEATS OF THE TEAM OF DANISH GIRLATHLETES WHO APPEARED AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES. DURING the Olympic Games, atLondon, the Danish girl athletesfurnished a remarkable exempli-fication of the value of physicalculture methods in developing strong,beautiful bodies. They were the hitof the games. They were by far themost popular team of athletes. Theywere one and all beautifully proportionedspecimens of womanhood. In theatricalparlance, it might literally be said thatevery move they made was a picture,•—every pose an artistic creation. Al-though these girls were powerful repre-sentations of physical womanhood, theywere nevertheless graceful, lithe, supple,and in their ordinary appearance gaveno evidence of possessing the marvelousstrength which lay under the beautifuloutline

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