The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-06-22

LONDON, June 11.-LOrd Charles Beres-
ford has givcrt notice % his intention u
move an instruction ON going into COM
mittee ON the local government bill that
It shall DO incumbent On the proposed
county councils In urban communities Of
100, 600 people and upwards TO provide
for every such 100. 600 . gymnasium. The
need of a step in this direction. says .
London journal commenting on the bill,
isbccomfng more apparent In our crowded
stiles. Every officer of experience In the
army and navy will tell you If you ask
him that although the town bred hoy has
\ certain quick wittel advantage to start(
with, tho country bred hoy makes the
best man in tho long run. And this part
was illustrated In q very curious way some
years ago in New York where q clergy.
man institutcd Inquiry and found that
more than 90 per cent. of the heads of all
grcut establishments, banking, manu-.
featuring, professional, journalistic and
others were country bred mcn-that is to
say, mcn either purely rural or from the
smaller towns whose open neighborhood
gives their youth great chancesOf develop
Ing muscle. We arc faced In the social
problem by no more serious facts than
thcsc-lhat the tendency of tho pOrula-
ton ia toward tho towns. That IN the
great manufacturing towns the male pop.
ulation is dcgcnerating in stature and
chest measurement; that this Is true not
in England only but In America also. and
that II seems to be a law of nature that
disuse as we'll a. misuse shall lead to i'm
p0tencc. Now We cannot stop the ten
dency of the people of the rural districts
To swell the already crowded population
of towns. Agrarian lawshavc not stopped
1t in Ireland and could hut partially
arrest it here. Every country lad thinks
a city Is q Tom Tiddler's ground where
he has only to stoop to pick up gold anil
silver. We have I reckon with this
fact but it Is n thing to know OF an
evil and another thing to remedy 1t. A
well known staff officer and a we'll known
Journalist were together the other even
ing. They struck out a notion between
them. They communicated it to Lord
Charles Bercsford who jumped ut
it for he is already on the
committee of the National Physical
Recreation society. Established for the
promotion of physical recreation among
the working classes" OF this society
MI. Herbert Gladstone is president, and
he Is interested In Lord HercsfOrd's prOr
~Osition. Musclei il needed in the world ae
we'll as mind. We bid fair to have to
much mind of . sort and too little mus
Gle of any sort. We pay for boarding
schools and in them We find some little
sort Of provision for Fairgrounds, butt 70.
the young man or woman of the working
classes what play is there in large towns
after they leave school? waterloo was
won in the playing fields of Eton' Jig
q saying attributed to the great Duke of
Wellington, and like most famous say
ings 1t has a great deal of truth in it to
greater than mind, but VIC have neglected
muscle for many a day and the II
quencc is a population moro and more
angmic, more and more feeble and moro
and more in a certain strata indisposcd to
any physical cxcrtion that is not payable
directly in coin.