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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aybecause it is white. Unpolished rice not onlycontains far more nourishment, but is far moredelicious to the taste. I do not by any meansthink that the white rice we use is as deficientin nourishment as our ordinary white flour, butit is far better to use it in its natural color, thatis, dark and unpolished, whenever you canseour«5 it, though it is difficult to procure. How to Make a Snow Plow By Harriet M. Houghton IT began with a red sled and an old boxcover. It now plows all the pathsabout the house, and even the pathsin the school yard. It is drawn bythree boys and it leaves behind a clean,smooth path. The making of a snow plow is a com-paratively simple thing, for three school The prow was made by the joining oftwo boards, each about a foot wide andfour times as long. When there is agood snow fall the top of the prow justrises above its level. A stout boardjoining either side of the V on the insidegave this a strong frame work. Then thewhole affair was fastened firmly to a long
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The Snow Plow at Work and the Boy,s Who Made It. Note the Human Ballast boys have done it. They planned theplow, piece-by-piece, and then they col-lected their building material. This wasnot at all hard, for somewhere in thecellar and work-room they found a fewboards, an iron screw and two stronghinges. After this they were ready forconstruction, and at nine oclock oneSaturday they were busy in the work-room with saw and hammer, and beforethe morning was over the new ploughwas ready for the first snow. board which was nailed down upon thesled. But the real work of the plow fallsupon the big blade. At this stage in thework the boys found that the old boxcover was just the thing. The cover waslarger and stouter than the boards of theprow, and it was attached to one of themby two hinges. By this device the bigblade •: uld be swung out to clear a widepath, or it could be drawn in if the pathwere to be made narrow. 585 I V 586 PHYSICAL CULTURE It required some mechanism, however,to regul

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