| Show ammy fy exercise absolutely necessary to keep the body in proper physical condition ivl the sedentary Is like a stag pant pool while the active man Is like the mountain stream in the stag nant pool reptiles of many alons crawl and croak and from it orca odors rise the mountain stream Is pure and sweet and crystal clear the body Is a form through which a stream of matter flows exercise Is the means by which the movement of the stream Is accelerated eo that the blood Is 1 ept pure and the tissues clean the bible says that he that will not nork shall not eat and na ture says the same A man who in fists upon eating even though be does not work pays the penalty tor his violation of natural law the food he eats becomes poison in the sues his bod Is not only like the stagnant pool but it becomes even allie a cesspool and ready food for germs exercise increases the ability of the body to resist a disease it enczur ages every bodily function creates appetite tor food and the ability to digest when eaten it strengthens the heart clears the brain and enlivens the spirit how much must on exercise how much muscular work muff one do to maintain good healthy according to recent english authorities the average man should 4 dally work equiha lent to climbing a perpendicular lad der one halt mile or twenty six hun dred feet high it one lived in the vicinity of leukerbad Leuker bad switzerland or in the neighborhood of certain deeb mines he might actually climb such a ladder ordinarily some other more convenient method of exercise must be adopted it has been determined that walking twenty feet on level at the rate of three miles an hour Is equivalent to lifting the body gerpen the distance dib tance ot one loot hence one may it he chooses walk ten miles instead of climbing a lad der halt mile high of course hill climbing and mountain climbing wall accomplish the game thing as ladder climbing and if one chooses to do the work indoors he may work out his task in stair climbing going up and down 9 flight ot stairs ten feet high Is equivalent to raising the body about twelve feet perpendicularly hence one might do the required amount of work by going up and down such a flight of stairs one hundred and sev enteen times but first he may do the work while standing in a corner tend raising himself on his toes in such exercise the body Is elevated about three inches hence four heel would be equivalent to rals ing the body one toot and to raise the halt a mile or twenty six bun adred feet it would be necessary to rise upon the toes ten thousand four hundred times one might easily ex acute this movement at the rate of jone a second which would be fifteen feet a minute or nine hundred feet an hour at this rate the day s task would be accomplished in about three hours but it would be very tiresome to do the work in this way for almost the entire amount of work would be thrown upon a single set of muscles by placing the hands upon the back pt a chair or upon a table the arms may be used to assist in lifting the body so that the movements can be executed much more easily more or less weight can be thrown upon the arms by raising upon the heels and bend ang the knees the body may be alter raised and lowered through a distance of about two feet the exe catlon of such a movement requires nearly tour seconds or fifteen to the the body would thus be lift ed thirty times a minute and an hour nd a halt would be required to do the day s work by placing weights upon the shoulders the rate at which he work Is done would be increased ind time shortened but on the whole here ie no method of accomplishing he work so good as walking and par climbing a hill with a mod brately steep grade bicycle riding it not overdone Is excellent exercise to accomplish the same amount ot work riding a bicy le one must cover about four times ae distance required for walking most city people outside the labor ng classes take far too little exer else As a result the deficient exida alon of the body wastes and the acau mul atlon of uric add and other tissue poisons after a time result in rheum neurasthenia apoplexy prema ture old age and a great variety of disorders dig orders which may be traced more or less directly to uric add alon six to four that consumption will car ry oft jtb victims before the age ot forty five per cent of suf from this disease die bedfor they reach this age above sixty the per cent ot cases Is only twelve in general diseases such as small pox diphtheria measles etc the chances do not differ widely thirty per cent of the deaths from these dis eases occur under the age of fortye r five 36 per cent between forty five and sixty 34 per cent above sixty apoplexy softening of the brain and paralysis chiefly afflict elderly people 55 per cent of the deaths from these causes occurring above sixty and only 12 per cent below forty five the probabilities are that sufferer from other nervous diseases will not reach the age of sixty only 27 per cent of deaths from these causes oc burring after that age peart disease afflicts principally the elderly and middle aged only 11 per cent of deaths from this cause occurring before forty five years ot age although pneumonia has been called the old man s disease the chance are sixty four to thirty six against one dying of this disease after the age ot sixty twenty nine per cent of the deaths from pneumonia occur under forty five 35 per cent between forty five and sixty and but 36 per cent above sixty other respiratory die eases such as bronchitis etc grant a little longer lease 0 life derangements Derange ments of the digestive eye tern do not glean from the aged a very large cumber of victims the chances being more than two to one against those so afflicted reaching the y age of sixty thirty per cent of the deaths from this class of disease oca cw under the age of forty five 33 per cent between forty alve and elx ty 32 per cent above sixty of bright disease have a fair chance of reaching eltty only 16 in dying of this disease before forty five complaints as genito urinary are old age diseases 77 per cent of the deaths from such cases occurring at ages above sixty fifty per cent of the deatha from violent causes occur under forty fully 68 per cent of the typhoid fe f ver deaths occur under forty five and only 9 cent at ages higher than sixty |
