Physical Exercise.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1660, 17 March 1886, Page 2

Physical Exercise.

■'We hear a great 1 deal nowadays on the subject of,physical exercise, but on this i matter <many^ipeoplei<seem -to. be ; oddly! misinformed. A~man without muscle is as b.gdiyi&ffMßtb.is roughragd?! ' tumble world as a man without brain. Parents take pride their^chUdren-when tHeir heads are" packed like --a museum ! with all sorts of oads-ahd-ends of information, but they do too little to cn 7 courage the symmetrical development of their bodiea. K 'sney; forget /:that robust health cph^itutes. about-^hree-quartjers of the of htttttaji^hap"einess, and vthatjt is, crimmal neglect, of the higtio^t welfarS 6t tW 'boy> and girl to keep,.them, r at : their books, unti^ they lose all their ; appetite, for open air sports. Half the men m. the world are broken down, w^b dyspepsia, ' and the Qtfter; half is broken tip with rheuHSatism. The women, -who are, not; supposed to jhave uny muscles, indulge inthe luxuries "cpF sicK.hqadlacha and. ' jrieuralo^av : A half-hour's, vigorous,; exercise m the morning' before the' t busini"ss. of the day begins, a brisk^wal^' of^ three ; ~ or. four milesj "woflid'-s^ei&tenthe temper and make life, rSiich is our physical condition^ tipweyer, ihat. if should turft most of our city men into a gymnasium for an fipurs .tQrtijrCwth. the parallel bars and thirty-pound dumbbells and/the :i^piriting r tra^ Z e, you would haye to pick tnernr up ifrom the floor like eh^nuts under-a- tree after a sharp gale. Oclr sallow-faded clerks, and. 'their employers also, after - a three hourg' b'nVi^;hafd^rp^i-^th-:a-;-leap-here and there over a f etice 'or ditch|' would tjave^o'De bfoughf hdme- m vans \qv on! stretchers, and . a large proportion of them deposited^ th>?OTderfeker'B. We have not y^tlea^Baji^iiecret 1 of right living. does some hours eyeif^lag^Jtt^' of doora. We are asthmatic, rH'eamatid, nervous, dyspeptic, and hard.tp.^et'alpng with .at home!, beoausetwe' place too.^much -re'r. liance on brain ppwer.and not .enough m the healCh&lideVelopmenk'of our- bodied". ~~Home News. . }/ ... , . ■-......_„