IV. ARM AND HAND EXERCISE. FIRST SERIES. First Position. No. 73.-The instructor will command: 1. Arm and Hand Exercise; 2. First Series; 3. First-POSITION. No. 74.-At the word, POSITION, the students will extend their arms directly front, and place the palms of the hands together, as in Fig. 33. No. 75.-First Movements-RICHT. At this command, the student will describe the line A B, Fig. 33, with the right hand, and recover the commencing position four times; at the command, LEFT, four corresponding motions from the position will be made with the left hand; at the command, ALTERNATE, four of these motions will be made from the position by alternation; and finally, at the command, BоTH, four of these motions will be made from the position with both hands simultaneously. Every time the commencing position is resumed, the palms will be struck together smartly, so as to mark the time.-Music for these exercises commences on p. 160. No. 76.-Second Movements-RIGHT. The remaining commands, and the number and order of the movements, are the same as in No. 75; the motions being made directly back from the commencing position, as represented by the dotted arms at the rear in Fig. 33. No. 77.-Third Movements-RIGHT. These movements, which correspond to those of No. 75, are made in the arcs a c and a D. Second Position. No. 78.-At the command, Second-POSITION, the arms are extended front, the palms are placed together, and the thumbs pointed to the right, as at 1, in Fig. 34. In No. 79.-First Movements-RIGHT; LEFT; RECIPROCATE. executing these movements, the right palm strikes the left four drawn blows toward the breast, and then four similar ones in the opposite direction; the same number of corresponding blows is then given the right palm with the left; and, finally, one arm is thrust forward at the same time the other is drawn toward the breast, producing a seesaw or reciprocating motion, and the palms, when passing, are vigorously struck together until sixteen blows are given. The sixteen strokes produced by reciprocation are made with twice the rapidity of the preceding ones.-The Second Movements are executed with the hands held as at 2, in Fig. 34; the Third, as at 3. The number, order, direction, and kind of motions of each of the last two classes of movements, are the same as those of the first. These movements are valuable for the exercise of nearly all of the arm muscles, especially the flexors and the muscles of the fore-part of the chest. Third Position. No. 80.-At the command, Third-POSITION, which really involves four positions, the hands are held in line with the elbows, the right within the left, and the thumbs pointed front, as represented at ▲, in Fig. 35. No. 81.-First Movements - RIGHT. At this command, the student will raise the right hand nearly to the chin, and bring it down, striking the palm of the left hand with the back of the right, four times; at the command, LEFT, he will strike the right hand with the left, in like manner, four times; and finally, at the command, ALTERNATE, he will give eight blows alternately, first striking the left hand with the right. He will strike At the hands together, on both odd and even Fourth Position. B FIG. 35. No. 83.-Fourth-POSITION. This varied position is taken in four places. On the word, POSITION, the arms are extended, and the palms are pressed together, as at A, Fig. 36, for the first place; and each remaining place is taken at the command, CHANGE,-the second place being at в; the third, at c; and the fourth, in front at about the height of A, in Fig. 35, with the palms pressed together as at D, Fig. 36, the right thumb pointed toward the abdomen, and the left directly front. No. 84.-First Movements. The first class of movements is executed by rubbing the palms vigorously together with a reciprocating or see-saw motion while rapidly counting eight twice at each place named in No. 83.-The Second Movements are executed by rapidly striking the palms together eight times in each of the four places of the fourth position. Fifth Position. No. 85.-Fifth-POSITION. In this position, the arms are extended, first to the right in line with the chest, the thumbs being placed against the ends of the little fingers, with the ends of all the fingers in line with the thumbs, as in Fig. 37; second, the arms are D A C FIG. 36. FIG. 37. elevated on the same side, at an angle of 45 degrees, as represented by the dotted arms of Fig. 37; third and fourth, the arms are extended in two directions to the left, corresponding with those to the right; fifth, the arms are extended directly front in line with the shoulders; and sixth, the arms are extended front and up, at an angle of 45 degrees, corresponding to the position of the dotted arms of Fig. 37. When the arms are extended to the right, the face is turned to the left, and vice versa. In extending the arms front, the head will be held erect, and the face front. No. 86.-First Movements-RIGHT. The remaining commands are: UP; LEFT, UP; FRONT, UP; or the general command, Change, will answer for all of the commands but, RIGHT. The first and only class of movements is executed by extending the arms in the first four directions of No. 85, and simultaneously rubbing the ends of the thumbs against the ends of all of the fingers (snapping the fingers) four times in each direction; and finally, the arms are extended in the two directions front, and the fingers are snapped eight times in each of these positions. SECOND SERIES. First Position. No. 87.-The instructor will command: 1. Arm and Hand Exercise; 2. Second Series; 3. First-POSITION. No. 88.-At the third command, the student will take the first position, as in Fig. 38, in which the palms are up and the thumbs pointed back. No. 89.-First Movements. The first class of movements is executed from the first position by tightly clinching the fingers, thus forming fists, on odd numbers, and stretching them out, as far as possible, on even numbers, four times, with the palms up; four times with the palms turned down; four times with the thumbs up; and four times with the thumbs down. FIG. 38. No. 90.-In all arm and hand exercises, when the arms are extended their full length, either sidewise or to the front, the palms will always have precedence, being held first up while a prescribed number of motions are being made, and then down during the same period; after which the thumbs are pointed up while the prescribed |