p. 12 | A Dangerous Practise

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 25, 1907

A Dangerous Practise

ONE of the most dangerous exercises for children is jumping the rope. It is very frequently carried to such excess as to cause serious injury to the child, if not sudden death. Recently a girl of thirteen, living at Cleveland, Ohio, came to her death as a direct result of jumping the rope. The jar of the constant jumping had set up a disease of the bones which physicians were powerless to overcome. At the funeral the father of the little girl made an earnest appeal to her schoolmates to cease the dangerous practise, and many of them gave their pledge so to do.