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Show Thank God for the elderly men who are able to wh.'s loand run. An old man whistling always makes mo more hopeful. And when an old man can win a foot rnco thtro Is natural rejoicing amoT the spectators. A w minutes ago I saw a man of elderly appearance tome Into a station sta-tion in a hurry but when ho found tho trains delayed ho went out of the stutinn In n greater rush and ran to annti.er car line. The way ho tan caught my cyo. Ho made race track time and you would havo thought him made of rubber ho wont f.o easily. Ho had tho gracefulness graceful-ness of youth In his muscles. He hnd a bundlo of long strips of wood. A belt was mound his overcoat over-coat at tho waist. His cap was over his ears and he was "business." Last year I secu-cd tho picture of a mnn about a hundred years of ngo who enjoyed life nnd had a system of daily exerclhes which would bo useful use-ful to you and to mo to follow. I forgot for-got my kitchen chair cxerclso this morning. Occasionally I do hear elderly men whistling and more might whistle If thoy would stop their worrying and bellovo In better methods. An elderly man, though I supposo hn would not want mo to call him elderly, won n foot raco at a picnic and deemed none tho worso for It. You would not think him able to run a rod to look at him but he has been athletic nil his life. This Is being written In a street car whleh Is cold enough to mako Ico rrcnni hut I want to add a few wolds to tell you what a man told me this week. Ho lives over a mile from his railroad rail-road station and ho makes tho tiiji on foot six days a week. When ho tlrst moved to his present home ho formed the habit of running from tho station to the house each evening. Then ho unformed the habit by neglect, neg-lect, but now ho is reforming tho hnblt. It Is taking tlmo for him to do It. Ho Is older and he has to run a part of tho way dally hut he Is gaining each day. If you try any exercise go slow nnd watch results. It Is like remo medicines medi-cines In thnt It does not ngreo with everybody equally' as well. |