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Show , YOUR HEALTH BY OR. B H BISHOP I MIND N 1 HTJ64 U There Is a cult we might call the j cult of muscle. It hus found Kreat ' Htlmulittlon from the findings of the ! nriny medical examinations. J Jls code is: RemSmber thai you are at bottom I hut an animal. The real business f ' your mind Im to indicate how bSst ' your muscles may he developed. He ! muscular and you win. bo nappy But tho jirlnHje pj modern f?clenc 'tell us the truth They teach that the 1 cultivation of muscle Is n means, not Jan end- They teach muscles are reallvl the end organs of a certain kind of nerve-- called motor, that the muscles' i for which the nervous system has no ! purpose are simply a bu-den. i A muscle is a living- organ of great I vitality, whether It he used or not, j I and Its Upkeep demands a larpe sup-1 : ply of food and a perpetually working I apparatus for disposing of its waste i : products. The highly -'U-scular mnn developed by one of the modern systems of physical phys-ical culture or concentrated calisthenics, calisthen-ics, requires much food, and throws a J heavy burden upon his digestive np- j ' paratus and excretory organs. |