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Show BUSINESS MEN NEEDEXERC!SE (By Frank Gotch.) I have in mind a young couple who purchased an electric car. Every spare moment thev had they were spinning around town, or out in the country. Finally, one day the car stopped nnd no matter what they did or tried to do it refused to carry them further It looked just the same as lit had done every dav every part was intact but its vital force was gone Gradually the truth dawned I upon Its owners that its storage batteries bat-teries had become depleted. The power that had turned the wheels and sent the vehicle spinning over the roads had been utilized It was that power that made their pleasure pleas-ure of motoring possible. Neither one had ever seen the power and yet it had been real, and it had been go -erned bv natural law. As soon as the batteries were recharged the living liv-ing 'something" was put back into tho motor and the car was able to proceed. Evory time the wheels made a revolution a small portion of that power was used It is that way with the human body. Only, instead of recharging our batteries bat-teries at long intervals we must recharge re-charge them every moment we live. When tho human battery has j,iven up its final power, It Is beyond recharging. re-charging. Many business and piofes-slonal piofes-slonal men neglect this recharging of their batteries for months or years. Then there is a breakdown and the vital current is inteifered with. They are obliged to take a long rest at some sanitarium or secluded resort. Thoy have to cleanse their batteries by placing themsehes under expert medical care, and then, after a while, if the mechanism of their beings has not been worn beyond repair, they begin to gather some of the vital force. J. : Contrasted wjjth this very unwise plan is the idea of recharging the batteries day by day. The greatest restorathe of all is" sleep, but sleep ; should not be depended upon to do all of tho recharging. Sleep cannot overcome tho excessive burden of a continuously depleted body It cannot can-not take care of all the business of waste and repair and fatigue. . Under certain deteriorating conditions, slcop may become a deep lethargy or coma. Often a very limited amount of physical exercise followed by a bath and rub-down, will put the muscular parts of the body to work, and will aid the organs of elimination in casting cast-ing off the day's lefuse. Full, deen breathing during exercise pumps a large" supply of oxygen Into the lungs and throws off the carbonic acid gas and moisture from the lungs. The business or professional man emerges from his daily workout feeling feel-ing lefreshed. He has done to -his body what the man at the garage does to the electric automobile.' He has recharged his batteries he has brought his current qf energy back to its full vibration. This man Is going go-ing to feel fit and fine at GO to 70 years of age. He is going to be young and supple when a man of 35 or 40 has drawn upon his physical reserve of energy, and has broken down. The best way to d,eal with the grentest of all merchants Nature is to pay for what you get when you get it, and make your purchases every ev-ery da. Don't get into the nabi j of that fearful or suicidal policy of waiting. You cannot buy energy from Nature in a one-lump sum The organs or-gans of your body aro constructed to carry only a certain reserve and no j more. You must do your buying day by day, and if you keep healthy and gorous, and give your physical organism or-ganism something to do, you ie cleansed away all the cinders and i have put new coal onto the fire of j your possibilities. oo |