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dancing beauty and games

by constance stewart richardson

Author: constance stewart richardson

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It is true that many have realized the great and undeniable truth that Physical Culture properly used is also mental culture, but it is also true that the masses are absolutely ignorant of this fact, and merely think that the person who believes so is a harmless lunatic. That it is within the means of the majority to have a powerful weapon to combat sins and vice that at present go rampantly on their way, I do most sincerely believe, and that weapon is a right understanding of the effect which Physical Culture has on the mind and body… By a dancer Constance Stewart-Richardson (1883-1932).

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...Whereas judicious exercise 23 DANCING, BEAUTY, AND GAMES strengthens a weak thing, heavy work will merely spoil it, and in all probability ruin it for all time. How often one sees a child burst into tears for no obvious reason, become irritable and bad-tempered, and when bedtime comes lie awake for hours. The cause nearly always being the ignorance of teachers and parents who in their mis- taken kindness allow children to play games until they can hardly walk with fatigue. I have often been asked if I advocate games for children; before the ages often or eleven years old I certainly do not, and l)etween those ages and sixteen, I think games ought to be most carefully supervised and chosen, and for these reasons. From infancy up to eleven years is a most critical period, the most critical I personally believe in the whole life. When a young child is playing games it is most difficult, in fact almost impossible, to get it to remember several things at once. What I mean is this. A young...