When the child has acquired sufficient strength to hold exercises, it can hardly be overemphasized in the open air, the more he will be accustomed to this, the more he will be able to withstand the vicissitudes of climate. Children, too, should always be allowed to enjoy the pleasure, because they usually take this type and degree of exercise that is best able to promote growth and development of the body. In the unrestrained indulgence of their youth sports, all the muscles of the body, comes in for its share of active, free and growth, vigor, and health are the result.
However, if a child is fragile and strumous and too weak to take sufficient exercise on foot, and a kind of breathing a fresh air and exercise are essential to improving health , and without them all other efforts will fail, riding on a donkey or pony is the best substitute. This kind of exercise will always find an infinite service to delicate children, it amuses the mind, and exercises the muscles of the whole body, and yet so soft as to induce little fatigue.
The exercises of horseback, however, are most particularly useful when there is a tendency in the constitution to pulmonary consumption, either hereditary or accidental causes. It is useful here, and its influence on the overall health, as more directly on the lungs themselves. There is no doubt that the lungs, as the muscles of the body, acquire power and health function. Now, during a trip it has been obtained, and without much fatigue to the body. The free and the constant enlargement of the lungs in full inspiration, necessarily takes place, which keeps the structure of their health, keeping all the air passages open and permeable, it prevents congestion in the pulmonary circulation, and even provides more time to complete the necessary chemical action on the blood, changing with each act of respiration, a sufficient proportion of the whole air in the lungs, all objects of great importance, and all capable of being promoted, more or less, by these means.