The heart beats more frequently and forcibly during moderately energetic, regulated exercise, and the blood and its nourishing constituents are better distributed. The digestion and the appetite are improved by physical exercise, on account of the increased waste, more rapid absorption, and greater demand of food; but as there is an increased flow of blood to the stomach during digestion, in order to supply more gastric juice, exercise right after a meal interferes with that process. Systematic exercise gives also tone to the nervous system. Outdoor exercise gives us better air, more light, and a different pressure of the atmosphere than our buildings contain. Out of town exercise is beneficial, as we breathe no impurities which are floating in the air in thickly settled places. Swedish gymnastics, or so called "movement cure," is an effort to produce more active contraction of the voluntary muscles and improve the nutrition of the same. Every school ought to have a properly arranged place and apparatus for gymnastics, and for free exercises of all the voluntary muscles, then the teachers and scholars can improve their physical conditions, and have systematic means by which the body will be developed to better usefulness and symmetry. The present "rough and tumble sports are more likely to be injurious. Erasmus Wilson says: "In mind lies the great secret of beneficial exercise, and without it exercise is a misnomer and a fraud on the constitution." When mental culture and physical education are going hand in hand, various crippled conditions and diseases may be prevented, and a more vigorous people will exist. There are already a number of educational institutions where physical education is taught, and also gymnastic institutions, athletic clubs,-the German Turnverein and the American Turnerbund. APPENDIX. SANITARY LAWS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1885. AN ACT TO RENDER MORE EFFICIENT THE HEALTH LAWS OF THE STATE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: SECTION 1. The selectmen of any town that has neglected to elect a health officer or officers may appoint one or more health officers for said town, as in the judgment of the selectmen may be necessary; but if no health officer or officers shall have been elected or appointed, it shall, upon the petition of ten or more legal voters, be the duty of the selectmen to appoint one or more health officers, as in their judgment may be necessary. SECT. 2. The state board of health may make, in addition to the rules and regulations of local health officers, such other rules and regulations or may make such amendments to existing rules and regulations as, in the judgment of the board, the public good may demand, and such rules and regulations shall be enforced by the health officers in the same manner as other health regulations. SECT. 3. Health officers or local boards of health shall furnish the state board of health with such information as may be called for from time to time concerning the work of such health officers or local boards of health, and a copy of all rules and regulations issued by such health officers or local boards of health shall be forwarded to the state board of health when issued. SECT. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved July 23, 1885.] AN ACT REGULATING THE SALE OF VEAL. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: SECTION 1. If any person kills, or causes to be killed, for the purpose of sale, any calf less than four weeks old, or knowingly sells or has in possession |