How to Get Strong .
' How can I best develop my strength ?' a wiiter asked of a well-knowji - athlete. * I'm running down and need exercise, but have little time for it.' The answer of the athlete was : ' Get all the sleep you require, take a cold bath when you get up, rub yourself warm with stiff towels, buy a pair of three-pound or five-pound dumb-bells and use them. Then breakfast, and exercise below the waist by the rapid walk of a mile, until you feel like making it two miles. Use the dumb-bells sparingly afc first — say three minutes. Gradually increase the exercise up to fifteen or twenty minutes. That course will do you all the good an ordinary man needs. In a month you will not know yourself. Of course nothing is as good as boxing, but that takes preparation and time, and requires resting rubbing down afterward.' Little Henry was retailing his Bible lesson to his sister, aged three. ' And you know, Mary, Lot's wife was a naughty woman, and did what she was told not to, and looked behind her, and God changed her into a pepper-castor !'
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 361, 20 April 1889, Page 3
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189How to Get Strong. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 361, 20 April 1889, Page 3
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