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246 PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
is probable that this may be called an old " Joe Miller,"
as the Americans name all well-known disagreeable
narratives; but whether it be old or new,
I have seen occurrences that render it credible to me
as a fact.
Physical Education.-I gave my second lecture on
Physical Education to the Mercantile Library Association
this evening. A skeleton and a number of
anatomical drawings were introduced, and no objections
to them were stated by the audience, which consisted
of highly respectable persons of both sexes.
This fact is mentioned solely on account of the charges
of an absurd delicacy, which are sometimes made
against the American women, who, it is said, put
trousers on the legs even of their pianofortes. The
views delivered were simple and elementary, such as
are contained in the best works on Hygiene. I had
heard so much of the great extent to which the Americans
read, that I was afraid that I might appear to
my audience as delivering a thrice-told tale ; but they
were very attentive, and I was afterwards informed
by a medical friend, that although they hear a good
many doctrines about health, they do not generally
carry any salutary rules consistently into practice,
and that a rational exposition of the principles of
Hygiene in lectures is still much wanted.
Dec. 12. Thermometer at 7 A. M. 40 ; at 10 P. M.
22 . Morality of New York.-I have already remarked
(p. 223) that New York is the rendezvous of
the rogues of both Europe and America. A young
Scotsman gave me an account of his own experience
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/286/?q=%221838%3F%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.