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Show A Unique Prescription For the Liver. A young clerk whose sedentary life and lack of exercise have left him with a 6luggish livvr and all the evil consequences conse-quences thereof visited a well known physician recently and was advised to regulate his diet to the utmost plainness plain-ness and to take horseback exercise daily. The yoeng man frankly told the doutor that he could not afford to keep or to hire a horse. The doctor asked him where he was employed and was told that he was a clerk in a certain corporation corpora-tion which is housed in an enormous building on Broadway, and that his office was on the tenth floor. Quoth the doctor: "That's just the thing. You don't need to hire a horse. Walk briskly down the 10 flights of itairs three times a day, and it will do f our liver just as much good as if you were jolted on horseback during an hour's ride." The gentleman's friends will probably proba-bly appreciate after they have read this why he persists in walking down stairs at a good gait instead of taking the elevator. ele-vator. The doctor added that no excer-cise excer-cise was more gently stimulating than walking down stairs and nothing more severe than walking up stairs. New York Mail and Express. |
