The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-12-06

dividual will surely suffer the consequences IN
impaired health and a shortened life. \ man
may eat and drink heartily every day, and sit or
stand in his ofEce during business hours doing
brain work, and then ride home to sit or lounge
and read until bedtime but let him remember
that the body must have its share of work, or
eventually it will become diseased and die. This
is an imperative law Of nature. Should the
stomach refuse to work within ten minutes after
a hearty DINNER, the man would die in convul-
sions in a few hours, or cholera or cramp would
rack him. Should the pores Of the skin 90 on a
- strike he would shortly be consuming with
fever. And If the liver should become mulish,
appetite would disappear, food would be loathed,
torturing pans would invade the small of the
back. and the head would ache to bursting. To
keep the complicated machinery of the human
body IN order during a Lifetime, physical exer-
else is absolutely necessary. No one can expect
to realize good health, either in mind or body,
while habitually neglecting this. As forcibly
stated by a recent writer on this subject, Every
half hour Of earnest physical exercise every in
MIGRATING taste Of pure and stimulating air
every brief period of amusement, which no count
ing-room care is permitted to mar, has its actual
financial value. Sound sleep, good digestion and
hard muscles qualify for sustained mental exer-
ton. To allot half an hour daily to some sys-
tematic course Of athletic exercise-such az rapid
walking or the dumb-beIls-Is possible to even
the most devoted ofice-worker. With due per-
sistency it will produce results that will richly
compensate for the time devoted.
Englishmen and Germans are noted for their
sturdy carriage, generally large frames, strength
and habitual health. With the English, this is
in a great degree the result Of the national custom
of taking long walks onstitutionals"-iD the
open air while the Germans from youth are
frequenters of the gymnasium. All classes of
our readers whose daily work is indoors-whether
males or lemaIes-will find that by taking a daily
walk their general health will be vastly improved.
Not a mere saunter around a square, but a brisk
walk hallway to the Pail and back, or out to
Waikiki, or to Manoa, or to Kalihi or Palama.
Try it.
We cannot better close this brief reference to
physical culture than by quoting a few sentences
from a Advice to Professional Men, which we
find in a recent number of the Fortnlghtly Re
UieO
ITO professional men ,sHen Of business, and in
deed all who are engaged in pursuits requiring more
or less severe mental work, coupled with more or
less confinement, exercise is, Of course, the cOndifio
sine qua non of the recreation to be commendc
This fact is 30 obvious that l need not dwell upon it
further than to make one remark. This is to warn
all such persons that their feelings are no safe guide
as to the amount Of muscular exercise that is requis-
lite for maintaining full and sustained health. By
habitusl neglect of sufficient exercise the system may
and does accommodate itself to such neglect so that
not only may the desire for exercise cease to be q fair
measure of its need, but positive exhaustion may
attend . much less amount Of exercise than is neces-
sary to long continuance Of sound health. However
strong and well, therefore, a man may feel notwith-
standing his neglect of exercise, he ought to remem.
Der that he is playing a most dangerous game, and
that sooner or later his sin will find him out-either
in the form Of dyspepsia, liver, kidney, or other dis
ease, which 30 surely creep upon the offender against
natures laws of health. According to DR.. Parkes,
the amount of exercise that q healthy man ought
to take without fatigue is at the least that which
is required for raising $50 ~foot-tons per diem.
This, in mere walking, would in the case of q man
Of ordinary weight be represented by a walk of
between eight and nine miles along level ground,
or one mile up a tolerably steep hill ; but it is de-
sirable that the requisite amount of exercise should
be obtained without throwing all the work upon
one set OF muscles. For this reason, walking ought
to be varied with rowing, riding, sctive games,
and where practicable. hunting or shooting, which,
to those who are fond Of sport, constitute the most
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