The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-06-02
AN ATHLETE TALKS.
SENSIBLE ADVICE FROM THE LIPS OF
A PERFECTLY MADE MAN.

How q Per1ectiy hauo man 40 SoH'
tuted-why 1t Is That Girls Are often
More Healthy in Appearance Ihan
Their Brothers-How to Be Healthy.
She had been to church. AS she
walked home she looked up and saw
Muldoon.
From the very beginning women have
liked big men-men who are physically
big-and when they by some accident
do care for little men it's ten to one the
brains are big. To every woman, and
woman is at heart an unciviiized crea-
ture, there is certain pleasure In the
knowledge that man can, if he wants
to, kill you with blow. The woman
who has not had this sensation is the
one who has cultivated the original
woman out of herself and is busy search
ing for fresh emotions. Consequently
Hercules is to woman more beautiful
than Adonis, and if she admires man
who mentally is strong, a thousand
times more does she care for the man
who can if he will govern by physical
strength and become what Swinburne
calls skiing of Pain" You can't deny
this, nor explain it, but it's true.
The churchgoing young woman who
met Mr.. Muldoon was inquisitive, and
she made up.her mind that she was go
ing to get some points on bigness and
beauty from him; so with the audacity
of the fox terrier, the dog of the day,
she asked:
'sMr. Muldoon, what constitutes a. per-
fectly made man?'
"One whose neck, biceps and calves
all measure the same"
It was bit impertinent, but that is
the prerogative of woman and so she
asked, "Do yours?"
And he quietly answered, yes"
Then she inquired, "What is the
reason that as one walks in New York
one notices that the women are larger,
look more healthy, walk better, and
from a physical standpoint are better
specimens than the men?'
"Well," said he, "the trouble begins
with the care of the boy when he is a
little chap; everything here is sacrificed
to the cultivation of the intellect, and
the small boys physical condition isn't
paid much attention to. You see the
sons of rich men who are weak. miser
able specimens, killing themselves with
cigarettes, smaller and less strong than
their sisters and having no strength
physically. A good many of them are
towards. Train a boy morally and
physically first, and his brain will re-
spond when you call on it. Train the
brain at the expense of the body and
you have just such specimens OF man
hood as you laugh at"
"Mr. Muldoon, when you get a man
down and are looking him straight in
the eyes and know that you have him
almost in your power, what are you
thinking OFF,
81 am thinking only of one thing, and
that is where l can best get hold of
him and how can best keep him where
l want him to be-"
Then he was asked, Glow long have
you been an athlete?'
"Since l was fifteen years old, and |
am now forty-one. weigh 215 pounds
in my clothes, 2O5 in fighting trim, or, as
the say in the south, in the buff. After
was thirty-five years old | allowed my
self to gain ten pounds, because after
that age | think a man needs little
more flesh l have never used tobacco
and don't drink.
"What do | think of women? To be
quite honest. am little afraid Of them;
they are not SO trustworthy as horses or
dogs? What kind of woman do like?
| like womanly woman, woman who
is gentle and affectionate and who isn't
loud | like a woman whose face is
clean, not daubed all over with rouge
and powder. l like woman who has
little bit of consideration for man, and
who, while he is willing to give her de-
votion and love, is ready to return it
with affection and kindly thoughts.
"But do you want me to tell you what
is killing half the population of this
country"
The inquisitive one said she did-she
was seeker for knowledge.
'.lt is the vile air that is in the cars,
boats, half the houses and hotels, and in
all the places of amusement. You get
in parlor Car, and there is one person in
that car an invalid, or woman, who
insists on having all the ventilators
closed, and you have got to sit, possibly
sleep, in that foul air, breathing in the
! diseases that everybody else has. If they
would spend less money ON making a
car handsome and more on making it
healthful, there would not be half as
much wickedness as there is, for when
men and women are thoroughly well
there is not much chance of their going
wrong"
/ fBut about women?
81 think there are 100 good women
to one good man, and where woman
makes a mistake it usually is the fault
of man. It is perfect nonsense, how
ever, shooting such creatures, as we
have heard of lately. They ought to be
caught by the nape of their necks and
tossed out of window and left to get
along as best they can"
"Who is your favorite actorY'
"Mr. Booth"
"What are your favorite fowers?"
"Violets."
"What is your favorite COLOR"
"Pale blue"
And then, with characteristic jump
from flowers and colors, the inquisit;ve
one asked, cat prize fight do they
spill much blood?'
"No," said Muldoon; ''the amount of
blood spilled is usually very much ex-
aggerated, When Sullivan fought Kill
rain, on July s, 1889, the fight lasted two
hours and eighteen minutes, and there
wasn't enough blood shed to entirely
stain pocket handkerchief,-A Woman
in New York Sun.
The largest and longest stone bridge
in the world is over an arm of the China
sea-five miles long, 300 arches, each
seventy feet high,