Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-02
Lying TO LITE.
How Does the Man OF Forty Years
or Moro Take Care OF EHiuIseif2

INV AhhdN hAth ~ ~ 1CNAu ~ nay ehh1k
In the way of exercise towards keeping
the body in proper condition 2--the aver
age business or professional man. Ben
Hogan, the reformed prize fighter, said
once that man who owned a tine horse
would have him carefully groomed, fed,
and exercised Daily, but that for himself
he would get out OF bed and into his
clothes in the morning without the
slishtest grooming or exercise, and pro-
coed to load up his stomach with heavy
breakfast, ride TO his Office, and go at
once about the business OF the day.
Then in due time come dyspepsia, fat
irregularities of the system, aches, and
pains. Treat yourself as you treat your
horse, was the moral of the ex-prizs
fighters tale, and see the difference in
the result.
TIE time of year approaches when tho
Invitation to exercise may be more potent,
though not more needed than at others
The man OF middle age particularly
should consider It. We Americans, with
the nervous rush of business which the
development Of new country has super
induced, have formed habits which
neglect the better things of life, and in
many cases the better manner OF life.
Sprung from a stock that prominently
ss characterized by bodily vigor and q
love for bodily activity in all manner of
exercise, we have TO great degree lost
the trait. OF late years there has indeed
been large improvement. And in moth.
ing is our national game of baseball
more commendable than the enthusiasm
IL inspires, leading the yonpg to engage
In it, and SO securing for them bodily
activity in the open air.
But there liz the rub. We are accus-
toned TO think OF all exercise rs matter
for the young. In our leading colleges,
for example, athletics are put on the
basis with mathematics or Languages,
where proficiency in them may count,
the result sought being q young man
developed physically in such q way as to
sustain q vigorous mental organization.
But the vast mass Of men in middle life
to day were not, in their young days,
under these inf cencss that the young OF
to-day are under. They did not sys-
tematically play ball, ride bicycles, take
boxing lessons, or follow a course in a
gymnasium. "There can be no doubt
says the Boston Herald in discussing this
subject, "that a large number OF the sud
den deaths among our business and pre-
fesaioual men are due to the constant
mental strain ID which they have lived
and the too frse use OF the nervou.
energies of life, without the building ur
OF the physical vigor and strength b.
proper exercise. Indeed you can not q
out on the street or into the counting
room, or visit professional offices, with
out noticing that men are nervous ant
excitable, spending their physical strength
too fsst, or that they are fat and Lac,
after forty, pushing their nervous forcei
OF the expense of their physical vitality
and quickly getting ready for apoplexl
by the time they are fifty or sky year.
of age"
j. Ard IT adds: t'The almost total neRlec
OF bodily exercise among the men o
ones acquaintance 10 characteristic o
our own generation, and 1t would b
hard to estimate the number of men il
the prime OF life whose death is attributes
by le verdict of the physician to what /
commonly called overwork mean
the use of the mental faculties at the OF
pepse 81 tue wnOie yttal system
There "a a. WAYS ratort IN O az ,ssy
OF Aa,o I'D as2 GaeCI su5 PtopS, Uouu.
tons OF life, like the historian Bancroft
at 80 years, who takes his two hours o.
horseback daily by the oonnter-c itatio
OF some old "Ivy-Green" who has live
in direct disregard to the iawa OF health
Such things simply show that there ar
exceptions to every rule. It will not
denied that regular exercise and cold
water bathing beget condition q
bodily vigor that contributes or reRli
makes possible the only true enjoymet
OF animal existence ~ we'll as the highe
attainment of mental yigor aud II
whole posses sion of o irue moral cond
ton. The enlightened methods OF nodeI
charity recognize this rs an indispensab
element in reformation. Perfect sanital
conditions must be sought il the wei
will and duiled perceptions are to
revtv. fed.
But 10 speak to the normal and not Il
abnormal conditions of life, the gre
need to-day amoug thousands of brAi
workers in both city and country, vi
have passed their fortieth year, is til
they shall give place in the ordering
lily life 10 athletic exercises which Rhi
accomplish for them what the athle
professor at college seeks to acc )mpli
for every yonng man who enters the
stitution, whioh is tbat he Phall pay 1
same attention to physical health that
pays to his mental training. There is
time in q mans life when he can let
from this cGre for the body. Aud the
is no time, perhaps, that he so siren
odsly needs 1t as IN middle life. Let o
begin ut 40 to have care for his bod
Let him rise IL or 90 minutes earlier
the morning and work with pair
light dumb bells, or simple home snr
ratus OF any kind then let him grnt
himself as Ls would have his hul
groomed Let him continue this a
after dav, year in and year out-will
not come to his fittieth year with
springer gait, o clearer eye, better mil
better body, greater mental yigor, o uni
beslth'ul moral nature? He will, sure
Surely, then, 1t IS no light thing TO dc
this aud shorten life by years at the c
Of little daily trouble, which, aftel
while, will become a daily pleasure.
We seem to go to extremes in n
hings. We WORK longer and harder ii
othef peoples. We put great Str
upon orr nervous system. We DR.
beady and highly spiced drinks we DR.
the coolest OF ice water; wa eat wild
and simultaneously aud hntriedly,
then OF all the things gnd the only ID
to oounteract this mad method,
tematic bodily exercise I'VE indulge
not al all.
The younger generation will do be
when 1t comes 70 she middle age than
one that is now there-the one that
ries on the work OF lite-tos this your
generation is having bent aud enc
Rgement toward bodily exercise that
not leave il, and will carry it throuR
a generation OF men OF greater yigor.
behooyes those Who aid not have thj
their youth to assume it now. It N
decreased doctors bits it Inesus we
aieep and an added zest OF epjoymer
every Ietcise of the faculties.
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