" VI. 294 " VII. 295 CONCLUSION 295 TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Fig. 1. A warped University Oarsman, imperfectly developed in Muscles not used in Rowing 36 " 2. A warped Professional Sculler, imperfectly developed in Muscles not used in Rowing 37 " 3. Horizontal Bar and Chest-bars, for Home Use 92 " 4. Noiseless Pulley-weights 94 " 5. Appliance for developing the Sides of the Waist 217 " 6. A Correct Position for Fast Walking 220 " 7. Device for developing the Abdominal Muscles 225 " 8. A Chest-widener 248 " 9. A Chest-deepener 250 HOW TO GET STRONG, AND HOW TO STAY SO. CHAPTER I. DO WE INHERIT SHAPELY BODIES? Probably more men walk past the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street, in New York city, in the course of one year, than any other point in America--men of all nations and ages, heights and weights. Look at them carefully as they pass, and you will see that scarcely one in ten is either erect or thoroughly well-built. Some slouch their shoulders and double in at the waist; some overstep; others cant to one side; this one has one shoulder higher than the other, and that one both too high; some have heavy bodies and light legs, others the reverse; and so on, each with his own peculiarities. A thoroughly erect, well-proportioned man, easy and graceful in his movements, is far from a frequent sight. Any one accustomed to athletic work, and knowing what it can do for the body, must at times have wondered why most men allowed themselves to go along for years, perhaps through life, so carrying themselves as not only to lack the outward grace and ease they might possess, and which they occasionally see in others, but so as to directly cramp and impede one or more of the vital organs. Nor is it always the man's fault that he is ill-proportioned. In most cases it comes down from his progenitors. The father's walk and physical peculiarities appear in the son, often so plainly that the former's calling might almost be told from a look at the latter.