Book/Printed Material The skaters text book.
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Image 1 of The skaters text book.- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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- Date: 1868
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- Date: 1868
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Image 4 of The skaters text book.- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 5 of The skaters text book.- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 6 of The skaters text book.- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 7 of The skaters text book. A— THE Cl^r nf c. X RATERS’ r L* /i i i i- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 9 of The skaters text book. NEW-YQKK. the noted Bating CRH 1- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 10 of The skaters text book. GrVM9 .S3 5 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by WM. H. BISHOP AND MARVIN R. CLARK, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 11 of The skaters text book. The Skaters of America, TO WHOM THE TRIBUTE OF THIS DEDICATION IS FELT TO BE EQUALLY DUE, IN VIRTUE OF THEIR ACKNOWLEDGED PROFICIENCY IN THE EXERCISE TO WHICH IT RELATES, AND TIIEIR...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 12 of The skaters text book.- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 13 of The skaters text book. ESTIMONIAL. T have examined The Skater’s Text-Book, and consider it by far the most comprehensive work on Skating that I have seen. The practical details relating to dress shoes, the skate and...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 14 of The skaters text book.- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 15 of The skaters text book. PREFACE. The need of a thorough treatise upon the subject of skating has induced the authors of this work to under¬ take the task of furnishing to the skating fraternity, and those...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 16 of The skaters text book. VI Preface. It was thought best to present to the reader’s attention the subject of exercise, especially touching upon those points which appertained more particularly to skating, as entertaining and instructive, and...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 17 of The skaters text book. INTRODUCTION. EXERCISE. So little attention is paid to the all-important subject of exercise in this country, notwithstanding the many excel¬ lent facilities and extraordinary inducements held out, that works upon the subject...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 18 of The skaters text book. 8 Exercise. the veins, settles in the remote parts, stagnates, and disease is the result. Rheumatism, dyspepsia, nervous irritability, gout, which is a species of rheumatism, consumption, and a troop, of diseases...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 19 of The skaters text book. Exercise. 9 which they are inadequate to perform. This is a danger to which we are too liable, and its pernicious effects are not apparent until we lose the stimulus which has...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 20 of The skaters text book. 10 Exercise. equal strain upon all of the parts, and every wheel obeys the movement of the pendulum, and performs its duty in conjunction each with the other, inadequate to move alone,...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 21 of The skaters text book. Exercise. 11 wonder, being of a speculative nature, why the limbs of a tree, which stood for many years close to the wall of my father’s house, did not grow into the...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 22 of The skaters text book. 12 Exercise. pills, for we are weak enough; the system is regular, the brow is cool, the skin is pure; but the body is sinking, the head is aching, the pulse is...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 23 of The skaters text book. Exercise. 13 The debilitation of body we frequently feel on rising from our beds is, in nine cases out of ten, owing to the stoppage of the pores of the skin. A...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 24 of The skaters text book. 14 Exercise nations who held most firmly to this doctrine were the most successful at arms. Luxury, with its attendant vices, was deemed a curse, and the most stringent laws were made...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 25 of The skaters text book. Exercise. 15 couraged, and pampered by luxury. Says Rousseau, “All the sensual passions take up their abode in effeminate bodies, and are the more irritable in proportion as they are less capable...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 26 of The skaters text book. SKATING, AS AN EXERCISE, SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS. The particular exercise which brings into play the most of the muscles, without any attendant counteraction of the other muscles or functions of the...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 27 of The skaters text book. Skating as an Exercise. 17 incentive. In the former case, the nervous influence is in full and harmonious operation; while, in the latter, the mus¬ cles are obliged to work without that...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 28 of The skaters text book. 18 Skating as an Exercise. Authorities, in corroboration of our assertion, have been handed down to us from generations past by the most learned medical practitioners, who have devoted that portion of...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 29 of The skaters text book. Skating as an Exercise. 19 delicate organization, incapable of sustaining any amount of burden because she is the weaker vessel, it is not strange to us that such an opinion obtained; but...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 30 of The skaters text book. 20 Skating as an Exercise. Concerning the third objection, we have to say that, dur¬ ing an experience of many years, we have never known of an instance of a fall upon...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 31 of The skaters text book. SKATING PAST AND PRESENT. Where or when skating first originated is not positively known, but that it is of ancient origin we know from the oldest works we now have in our...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 32 of The skaters text book. 22 Skating Past and Present. the sight of the most rapid skater opened the eyes of the youngsters so wide you would think they never could close them again How different is...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 33 of The skaters text book. THE SKATE. The first ice-skates used in this country were of German manufacture, and consisted of iron or steel runners, which culminated in a beautiful twist of several windings in front of...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 34 of The skaters text book. 24 The Skate. Certainly, the club skate” is a wonder when compared with the outlandish Dutch turn-over” but who may tell if, in ten years’ time, our admired skate may not be...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 35 of The skaters text book. The Skate. the most scientific and practical skate, but, being constructed with a view to the avoidance of all straps, the greatest objection to the old style of skate has been counteracted...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 36 of The skaters text book. 26 The Skate. ber, and almost utter destruction of its use what is lost to the muscles of the foot is accumulated in those of the leg, which is necessarily deformed the...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 37 of The skaters text book. Adjusting the Skate. 27 eightswhile the long curve, or less rocker,” touches the ice about half of its length, and is therefore safer and better for the learner. Straight and long runners,...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 38 of The skaters text book. DRESS OF THE SKATER. In dressing, it must be remembered that the body requires less covering when exercising than is required when in repose. Overconsiderate people are very liable to err in...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 39 of The skaters text book. Dress of the Skater. 29 clothing be placed upon the body while remaining in the cold atmosphere. The skater should be warmly clothed, but not over¬ burdened with clothing. Overcoats, cloaks, shawls,...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868
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Image 40 of The skaters text book. 30 Dress of tiie Skater. Profuse exercise, by those who are unaccustomed to much exercise, is liable to stiffen the muscles, and thereby give pain in moving. To counteract this stiffness and...- Contributor: Clark, Marvin R. - Swift, Frank
- Date: 1868