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Show Bodies vs. Brnius. Probably no subject so important in its relations to health and happiness, has been so much overlooked as that relating to physical culture- There can be no ex? cuse for this on the . part of intelligent parents and teachers. And especially is there no excuse for neglect to take ample outdoor exercise in a climate like ours in Utah. Wishing to call the attention and thought of the readersof the Democrat Demo-crat to this vital subject, we subjoin the following taken from the New York Tier-aid: Tier-aid: ' "A man without a muscle is as badly off in this rough and tumble world as a man without brains. Parents take pride in their children when their heads are packed like a pawnbroker's shop with all sorts of odds and ends of information, but they do too little to encourage the symmetrical development of their bodies. They forget that . robust health constitutes consti-tutes about three-quarters of the problem of human happiness, and that it is criminal crimi-nal neglect of the highest welfare of the boy and girl to keep them at their books until they lose all appetite for out of door sports. Half the men in the world are broken down with dyspepsia and the other half are broken up with " rheumatism. The women, who are not suppose to have any muscles, indulge in the luxuries of sick headache and neuraliga. A half hour's vigorous exercise in the morning before, the business of the day begins, a brisk walk of, a dozen miles would sweeten the tenper and make life worth living. Such is our physical condition, however, that if you should turn a number of ordinary citizens into a gymnasium for an hour's torture with-the parallel bars and fifty pound dumb bells ' and the" inspirating trapeze, jrou would have to pick them up from the floor like chestnuts under a tree after a gale of wind. Our clerks, and their employers also, after a three hour's on a hard road, with a leap here and there over a fence or ditch, would have to be brought home in furniture wagons and a large proportion of them deposited at the undertaker's. i We have not yet learned the secret of right living. No man lives well who does not s'send hours every day out of doors. We are asthmatic, rheumatic, spleeny and hard to get along with at home because we believe in brains and not in bodies." |