The Republican journal., 1875-08-12
Samson OF Solomon!

books, or the clerk to the idea that too
close confinement in the counting room,
Is resulting in tlaccid biceps and gen
rral depreciation to physical tone. One
cannot pick up a newspaper now-a-davs
without being informed that this or that
college crew is busily preparing for a
coming regatta, or that some enthusiastic
individual is training to walk an incred-
lble distance in an equally incredible brief
space OF time while there is even an on
az lluttering about that elegant Mr.. Blank,
so refined and so gentle in society. actu-
ally nightly pummels a professional pug,
or stands mantuliy up and allows his
sconce to be sonncIly raped or his nose
to be painfully abraded by his short haired
tutor.
They say abroad that we Americans
make the pursuit of pleasure an elaborate
business transaction; we do even more in
the way Of athletic culture, tor we con-
trlNe TO convert such sport not merely
INTO business, but too often into Il Kind
OF maltvrdom
''Nell.' we can hear the reader en-
claim :" does this paper, which fairly
hr;7tlts with health axioms, and which
breaches sanitary measures year in and
year ,tl' propose 10 take grounds against
hc'li'iN exercise? Does IL argue that
~ lhiI'siliiiS gre piIlii7, ahi race poatS
ana "tf GfoundS only SO many roads
le'|hi!9 W p"''ily obstruction
N"' hoI pE any means, gentle reader;
on 'l'e contrary we liilhk physical eNer-
else ph\sl'al heceSSltY-btlt, IN moder-
ali"lh Ah' Ihe'eS the Pol'lt Whloh, IL
seems; cap never pc rendered Keen
eio''S" 10 loirr t.le or'.lh Oh tAe aver
age hili9c''ial ohilsti'tn, let US Mus
iFale suppose lWo men "I eIuAl Slfehglh
eh',F ior '''i''FS, --9''A i race WIN slh@le
sc'i!Is--lo t'h' pace Il year hence' one
HlNldt'a "cpth"9 on luture lfainIhg' ana
lrtS ihe SunlecI escape il'' attehtion until
tnree in"'lln7 oI 80 before tilc aPpoihlcu
li'ne mem nc 1oaillohS DOCKS or huSI-
ness and gocS TO WORK ne radically
chanSeS ms u'1t' from i,t1y lhac''NI'y, ne
SUBJECTS us poNl l" severe Stfa!h7' ahd N
hflrl, q cures ~ hlIu9 ol prNMIons IN
nr'it' l' ""iA hi'i'Ncll ny" hI '"iiu!t."H'
ne olAer person S'''ia al once WIN
iittle g'lltIe EXERCISE WitIch III hoWlSe M
lefielH$ WIZ hla regular P"fSuitSi ne
m1IhtahS ms generous ulet, ahd IN gen
eral, save, pefhAlS, II HiI@Iii augmentation
NJ iii''N'u w y t''o 'i'ilG S'u" sii,l''
r. i1o,t ~ ~ = t,'' n'Ilio ~ w ~" O.
al lhG peSiilliii3. An Iiie lour ol tIi1l 1t
N"I'lI nf l"'liI 'll''1 Ii'c hiAi coui" 'li'he
Spnf'S -holiehtarN ellofIa OF lerGu,ea'i
; Ie'l9Ih-'''I 'litI '''e At'"l" "ou'" SHOW
lhal S't;t"J' uhii1rlil i'tpol "llIc'l "oui"
'el n Ihe eh" " NNo"'I eNPegV " ~
one man le'Ne ms pot' coIlaP?e'' al" III
coh,lIlion III oi''N ZOE tHe SIGN rpoih
hnl lht "'lier' "e 'Ie c,,lI'i'l, "o"lo sIel
ashore warm ana lifeu 70 pc sure nuI
WIN eye Us ofi9ht' nerves rs Sl''''l
PuiSt ;'9 regl'l'r' anu h'a'i a7 'lt'i ~
Wlien he ZOOS W tIle o"'S' loili 'ilc ~
sun any one ""SIo 9'S iH'U 'nr III -
man c"tti9N ii'N" ''e'' "ic''7' '"' ) ~ ~
N PlrFI>tlS US 'o"' - y ''',"o'i'''' -
Nouli@ men lINC ~ tlic PI Ie9cll tlilr
III rs tlie same WIN liithl''l i'','f' 1 nc
Mrfe9t lEfn ol i Sch"E'f KNOWS Lh"l no III,
l"Th'1lloil : - ieetl''9 II t'l'' "''i"Iie''
oN Cr''n'hh@ I'' some Sl'e'''I oteaH!o"
"hi't none = :" 'ii""i i''| - ''l'1 S'lhe''
oI pl"dulu@' i''4 nS inNh' ~! toNtI'
LitSr >"'''i'h IONS ti''l.i ~ ~
lo' 'htlN - "'''lA guy PVl ~" " H'ii ''''
'P'N II lil"i' NluG ~ '','ll y, '!'r ~ ~
MIMI ,,,.,,,t . II >i,.I nv,
tha, nnn snt Of MUSCLES cannnt
NJ Ie>rloprI by axcrssiyr worll without
:, wcaheuino, OF the rest ana if feeble
bn.rts an. hin~s he included in tine or~an
ism tbis weakness cannot be withstood
ana rrrparahlr minv may easily result,
A strong frame does not imply a strong
and NOTHING is truer than
tbat tho ultimate STRENGTH Of the human
system. Ike than of any mechanical struc
t1rp i ONLY eun,I to ,hat of it's weakest
BARE The eari \ deaths Of ucenan. the
nrize tohter, Kentorth. the oarsmap, and
NJ !, dozen other maoniticent specimons
ri nh,siral dnvcIopmant which we mioht
u,nn arp common pyamples IN point
A wrll-knowu professor told us. not
lonm since that eyc,y man in a col)coc
rrnw Which lad covered itseIt with thc
i'''lg.' + II 1',',''a ie IVY u 'ii.''
IT =, ''i.' J. = ~ w.
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