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Show m i . H c DEVELOPING MUSCLE. Ittffv The paragraphers and comic papers are having lots ' of fun with the amateur gardners. According to their D - point of view, the novice agriculturist spends most of his HH" time evenings rubbing arnica on his lamp muscles, while Wmn) he can be distinguished on the street by his lame walk. Wm In so far as tho back yard farmers are suffering from llll their unaccustomed-labors, their inconvenience is useful mmr in that it reveals muscles that were lying dormant. It is i surprising how any new kind of exercise will uncover ij If faults in one's physical development. A man may be an excellent walker, capable of tramping many miles and j .may be proficient at some form of athletic sport like 11 tennis or golf. Yet when he wields the hoe he finds that HI t many of his muscles were getting no exercise, and that Pp ' games had only helped him in a one sided way. I h A man may go along year after year doing sedentary !,j( work and think that he is in good health. Then all at 1 once he collapses, and the doctor tells him he must have ))i more exorcise and outdoor life. He buys an expensive ia1 automobile or purchases a health exerciser or joins a 'M physical culture class. But if musclees have been suffered - $ to lose their fiber throuph long years of neglect, they can gjj never be put back where they were. ' Wherefore let the gardener rejoice, even though for '4 ' a few days he may need to use a bit of witch hazel on i J' his creaking limbs. It simply menns that they are re- f "3 awakening out of sleep into life, and if he will keep at it j he will be getting a physical development for which other I fc ! - men are paying good money. The gardener gets some- H . thing other than the choice of vegetables which he stores -;; y away in his basement. |