Show nature natures liercke Exer li ercle else thrifty dame nature has after all allied a usefulness to her very best forms of ex excise and looks with something of regret upon the waste of force which Is implied in mere exercising for pleasure or development perhaps it if she could assert hei bet view of the noblest and most lve form of athletics she would put it at sawing wood the lad who takes his lis athletic c exercises every morning in sawing wood for his big mother has dame natures kind blest endorsement indorsement indor if he could only believe that it was not work and would do it as cheerfully as he be would take a run of a mile ho he would find and that it went quite us an far toward strengthening hla his muscles and making his hi body sturdy the regular chores about jahe the boue house which the mother can 11 hardly ardly find strength todo to do the lifting the water carrying the sweeping all these tend as fairly toward a stronger body as the dumbbells and the indian clubs aud and the me elastic pulleys the tile good genius that makes certain forms of athletics so popular as play may well al aim 11 at some early period to popularize and render fashionable the homely lomely hard work about the house hou new york tribune |