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Show PHYSICAL EXERCISE. The winning of the championship of the world by Thomas F. Kiely of Ireland, in the recent tournament tour-nament at St. Louis, emphasizes strongly a defect in the American way of living. In the rush of business bus-iness and struggle for supremacy in other pursuits, the basis of them all, physical training, has been overlooked. In this respect we arc far behind the nations of northern Europe. The American business busi-ness and professional man is in too much of a hurry to take exercise. He runs the machinery of his brain and nervous system incessantly, at high tension, ten-sion, until it breaks down, and the end is a death noticejn the paper and a fine funeral. . Physical exertion good, hard work is absolutely, abso-lutely, necessary to enable men to stand the strain of mental work for a long period. In these days of rush and quick methods,' in which, by the use of modern appliances, a man wil do twenty times as much business in a day as was formerly possible., there is a wear and tear on the nervous forces wh'ch can only be repaired by physical exercise. Many men endeavor to repair this waste by stimulants, but after the immediate effects are worn off there is a reaction Avhich leaves the system worse than before. be-fore. The average, business man will say, in response re-sponse to a suggestion that he take physical exercise, exer-cise, "I have no time." He does not realize that he would save 20 per cent of his time if his mental machinery was in first-class condition, resulting from taking exercise. ' The use of dumbbells or Indian clubs for five minutes, twice a day, will make a wonderful difference dif-ference in any man's cond'tion. Such exercise has the effect of getting the blood into circulation, drawing it away from the nerve centers, and supplying supply-ing those centers with good, new tissue. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing such exercise may be tedious, yet if persisted per-sisted in day after day for an extended period, it will produce splendid results. The most beneficial exercise, of course, is that taken in the open air. Walking is good, but merely walking is not sufficient. suffi-cient. There must be something requiring more oxert'on to supplement -it. One does nfct have to be the champion at throwing the 56-pound weight, as Mr. Kiely wk, but something lightcV will do for Ihe ordinary mortal. Baseball is too strenuous for the average business man, and requires eighteen players; tennis is excellent, but is also too lively for one not accustomed to exercise. A game imported from England, Scotland and Ireland in recent years furnishes an almost ideal physical exercise for business busi-ness men, viz, golf. Here one gets 'the full benefit bene-fit of outdoor fixercise, plenty of walking, alternating alternat-ing with swinging a club as hard as possible, and the interest in the game which makes the player forget for-get everything else. It can be played after business hours, alone or with others, in fair weather or bad weather. Whatever the form of exercise, however, there is no person' in the world but should take it daily, and not in a half-hearted way, but good, hard work, bringing the sweat to the brow. In ho other way ch-ji people expect to have and retain good health, and the clear brain and steady nerve necessary to the successful managing of the affairs of life. |