Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-01
SOME POINTERS FOR LEIN MEN.
The II. st Mode OF Getting Fat Is to .DeyeioI
Your Muscles.

The II. st Mode OF Getting Fat Is to Develop
Your Muscles.
From the New York Sun.
No better adviser concerning the use of ex-
ercise could be desired than George Goldie
director of athletics of the New York Athe-
tic club, who has long been a champion
general athlete, and who has kept himself in
such good trim, by exercise, that in twenty
five years he has not grown to look or feel a
day older. 1t is his firm belief that man
who takes proper care of himself should not
begin to grow old, by the slightest decline or
failure of any of his faculties or powers,
physical or mental, before he is sixty, and
he AYERS that ii the average rich man would
take half "a much care OF himself as he II as
taken OF his horses he would prolong his life
and his enjoyment OF it many years. Mr..
Goldie has made life study of devel opment
of the capabilities of the human fram g, and
what he doesn't know about putting men in
any desired physical condition would be
very little indeed. Being consulted about
the subject OF this article he said
"If u lean man came to me To be made
stouter, should first OF all find out if any
thing allied him. Ii he was emaciated
through sickness and the special cause tor
his condition still existed, would send him
to doctor to be cured. lfhe was not sick, l
would put him through a course of exercise
that would bring out his muscles. j can
Of his senses would wish to acquire more fat.
Muscle Ia what is wanted, and it being
clearly understood that that Is what the lean
man Is really after, the course of his treat
ment would be simple. i would advise him
to take plenty of good, nourishing plain food,
roast beef, mutton chops, poultry, birds,
beeisteak, potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips,
and turnips, as his appetite demanded,
starchy foods and saccharine, with plenty of
milk, If it agreed with him, and occasionally y
fish tor change. He should take no spices,
and would not recommend pork to him or
to anybody else. Pork is not good food for
anybody. l am opposed to liquors OF all
kinds myself, because i do not think they
do any good, aud are liable to do great
deal of harm but if the subject wants them
let him stick to malt liquors, as free from
adulteration as possible, aud as little OF them
as he can get along with. Alcoholic liquors
will tend to putting on OF adipose tissue, but
but not of good healthy muscle. Rum and
muscle do not go together, only in eXcep-
tional cases, and then for but limited time.
Nature may for while contend with con-
siderable apparent success against the de-
| structive effects of alcohol, but the latter is
bound to triumph in the end II 1t gets the
| chance.
"But feeding alone will not make a man
muscular or give man weight, even OF good
| tat Some men, indeed, you cannot make
| stout by any course OF treatment, Just u
there arc others who cannot be made thin
| Nature has chalked out their proportions
and, though you may assist her, or perhaps
| modify her plan to a limited extent, you car
only go so far, and no further. While wa
| director of athletics at Princeton college
had in the class one young man who was OK
ceedingly stout His fat made him slow
| logy in his movements, and lazy. lie deter
| mined to get rid OF it, anu no human bel n,
ever labored more energetically for an en-,
than he did. lie dieted, exercised con
stantly, and took every possible care OF him
self that would reduce him. 1t was all II
use, SO far as making him thin was cor
cerned, for he only got rid of a few pounds
not worth speaking OF. But it worked on
| the fat from between his muscles and hard
ened them, took away his superiiuous belly
and wholly changed the character OF hi
movements and habits. lie grew to he
fine athlete, performing on the trapeze an
the flying rings with tho best of the clas'
when he weighed PA pounds. When h
| went sailing through the air, turning
| somersault from one trapeze u another, ~
looked like an avalanche turned loose. J
like illustration of what have said, coul
| cite a score of eases, some OF them III th
| New York Athletic club, where me me
3 | have tried their best Ia gain iiesii, ana nav
r | only succeeded by long anu hard endeaVc
Q in winning few more pounds But, hal
4 piIy. the few pounds they got We're we
worth the effort 10 get them hat they ha
| before had been rendered doubly valuable
: | and the small addition achieved had an etie'
Q that would surprise you In improving the
4 | personal appearance.
. "To continue tho course of the lean man
!, | treatment l would recommend him to tai
0 J plenty of sleep and 10 avoid all worr