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Show HOW TO EXERCISE. Look at the city dog or the city horse If any still exists. Let these animals be pampered, full fed, and kept from work or play, and they become be-come fat, indolent, decrepit, shortlived. short-lived. They must have oxorciso really to live. It need not be the rigorous task of the fox hound or tho coursing greyhound, or the hard drilling of the thoroughbred race horse in training. But a reasonable amount of exercise they must have in order to live. So with the city man, the bralnworker, the man of sedentary occupation. And inasmuch as "man," or course, "embraces "em-braces woman" as tho philosopher said it follows that she, too, needs reasonablo exercise if she would live at her best But tho reasonableness of the exercise must never be forgotten. It would be suicidal follow for the hardworking business man or practitioner practi-tioner of a learned profession to box ten rounds a day with a pugilist at top speed or to run a mile at his best pace oor to play three fast sets of tennis. ten-nis. Yet three or four rounds a day, or six rounds every other day, at moderate mod-erate speed with, saj a couple of minutes' min-utes' brisk mix-up at the finish; or a pleasant, jogging run, or a set of tennis ten-nis dally, or six sets distributed over a week, would do wonders in keeping the busiest sedentary worker full of the joy of living and doing, and out of the hands of the doctors. Preferably man should take his physical exercise as play A pleasant swim of fifteen or twenty minutes' duration, a swift Btroll with a friend or two over five or six miles, a lively game or two of squash or tennis or handball any one of these will do a man more good than hours of monotonous monot-onous mauling a punching bag or pushing dumb bells. The mind, the soul itself, is benefited by play, while the bodily functions are strengthened by tho physical work in the game William Hemmlngway in Harper's Weekly. |