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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
177
Mr.
Sheldrake
gives
several
examples
of
persons
trained
upon
these
initiatory
principles
to
the
profession
of
dancing,
who
have
lived
in
health
to
a
great
age.
"This,"
says
he,
"is
not
the
chance
lot
of
a
few;
for
I
have,
through
life,
been
accustomed
to
see
many
persons
of
the
same
profession;
I
have
communicated
my
own
observations
to
many
others,
and
all
have
agreed
in
remarking,
that
those
who
follow
this
profession
have,
very
generally,
excellent
health,
which
very
many
of
them
carry
into
extreme
old
age.
This
indisputable
fact
can
only
be
accounted
for
by
supposing
that
the
preparatory
exercises
which
these
persons
go
through,
are
a
modification
of
what
I
have
called
regulated
muscular
tension,
or
action,
and
the
early
and
constant
practice
of
which
lays
a
firm
foundation
for
that
high
health
which
accompanies
them
through
life.
It
is
upon
the
same
principle
that
a
soldier
is
never
seen
with
spinal
curvature,
or
other
personal
deformity,
or
a
stage
dancer
of
either
sex
with
a
deformed
person;
it
is,
perhaps,
impossible
that
such
things
should
exist,
for
the
plain
reason,
that
the
exercises
which
they
begin
to
practice
early
in
life,
and
continue
regularly
through
its
whole
course,
render
it
impossible
for
them
to
become
so.
"The
inference
to
be
drawn
from
these
incontrovertible
facts
is,
that
if
we,
in
very
early
life,
teach
young
children
to
practice
similar
exercises,
and
follow
them
steadily
afterwards,
we
shall
confirm
them
in
excellent
health,
and
prevent
the
accession
of
those
evils
which
so
often
cause
deformity
to
the
figure,
and
destruction
to
the
constitution,
at
later
periods
of
life.
I
do
not
propose
to
make
every
boy
a
soldier,
or
every
girl
a
dancer
upon
the
stage,
but
to
adopt
the
principles,
by
the
application
of
which
those
persons
are
trained
to
the
successful
practices
of
their
several
occupations,
and
so
to
modify
them,
that
they
may
qualify
other
classes
of
society
to
follow
their
different
pursuits
with
equal
success;
and
I
am
not
without
hopes
that
this
undertaking
will
contribute
something
towards
producing
this
desirable
effect."
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