Show culture anil and 1 lone ir life according to a leading medical journal out of soldiers who were examined recently by a it surgeon nearly so per ver cent were found to bo be suffering from irom heart trouble as the result of or forced exertion this leads that journal to the conclusion that athletic sports are not conducive to longevity and it points as its a proof to france where there is no craze for mus muscular dular development and L where one finds more people over the f age ago of sixty than in england with ito its f rage for physical culture it would seem however that tho the distinguished editor of tho the journal in question confounded the rage for display athletics with that for general physical de development velor it lias has been longi noted in tho the gyana giuins that train the most persistently give out the quickest tho the cause of it is that they develop tho the muscles at the expense of the nervous strength but there is a moderation in ill both bott which means better health and longer life and to the majority of those who enter gymnasium work that is w what hat is sought rather than record brea breaking hi n capabilities boston journal |