Show WEAKNESS OF GREAT STRENGTH perfect health not consistent with H gh muscular development it Is a curious tact fact that perfect health Is not consistent with high mus cular development professional ath letes and all men who acquire phenomenal strength seem to lose in length long th of life and activity what they gain for a few years of record break ing powers I 1 was privileged to see on several occasions louis cyr the canadian giant who broke all weight lifting records he weighed pounds and was all solid bone and muscle I 1 saw him hold his wife out at arm s length with one hand I 1 saw him raise a pound barrel from the floor to his shoulder using only conj hand and arm I 1 saw him get down on all a 11 fours under a platform bearing hearing 4 pounds of big men selected from the audience and he raised the plat form with his mighty back yet this i te emar kable man was muscle bound and crippled at 37 when he should have been at the height ot of bis his wonder tul ful powers kennedy the oarsman who won a diamond belt for lifting with his hands from the floor absolu without ap I 1 aratus a 1 1000 pound weight was used ip and crippled before he was 40 dowd professional strong man and teacher of athletics wore himself out and died at 47 metropolitan magazine |