beautiful pages. You
may well show it to your friends with pride. It is an achievement, a
monument of your industry, and proof of your knowledge. To yourself it
will be a source of never-ending pleasure. Here a leaf will recall a
visit to a friend, a trip to the mountains, or a month at the sea-side.
This flower suggests a picnic, or a shady walk, or mountain stroll with
choice companions. Turn to the herbarium on a day in January, when the
wind and snow are having a merry dance outside, and you will see visions
of sweet woods, fresh fields, and blooming wild flowers, biding their
time, but sure to come again.

THE RUNNING HIGH JUMP IN DETAIL.

From instantaneous photographs of Mr. Baltazzi jumping.

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[Illustration: S. A. W. BALTAZZI.]

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[Illustration: INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT]

The pictures on the opposite page are reproductions of instantaneous
photographs taken especially for this Department of HARPER'S ROUND
TABLE. They clearly show the exact position and form of an athlete at
the various stages of action in the running high jump, and a careful
study of them will prove of great usefulness to any one desirous of
perfecting himself in this particular branch of out-door athletics. The
striking feature of the series is that it proves that a man practically
steps over the bar with one stride, instead of flying over it in a
compact bunch as he appears to do when watched by the naked eye. But
before describing the jump itself, it will be best to give certain
general directions about the necessary lay-out, and a few points on
preliminary work.

In the first place, no one should start in to train for this event until
after he is eleven or twelve years old. In fact, it is safe to say that
no boy under this age ought ever to go into any kind of systematic
athletic work, for his ambition is liable to lead him to injurious
over-exertion. Don't do any high-jumping in the winter months; for
running on a hard board floor is not a good thing, and you are apt to
slip and get injured. If you want to take up jumping as a specialty,
spend the winter, or the in-door season, in pulling weights so as to
strengthen the back and chest, and in going through leg motions to
fortify the limbs. No one can ever succeed as a high-jumper unless he
has a well-dev