The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-06-03
AN ATHLETE TALKS.
SENSIBLE ADVICE FROM THE LIPS OF
A PERFECTLY MADE MAN.

How Perfectly Made Man Is Consti-
tuted-Why 1t Is That Girls Are often
More Healthy in Appearance Than
Their Erothers-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
blg-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 uncivilized crea-
ture, there is a certain pleasure in the
knowledge that a man can, if he wants
to, kill you with blow. The woman
who has not had this sensation is tie
one who has cultivated the origina.
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
calls king of Pain" You can't deny
this, nor explain it, but it's true.
The churchgoing young woman who
met MIR. Muldoon was inquisitive, and
she made up her mind that she was go
ing to get some points o.l bigness and
beauty from him; SO with the audacity
of the fox terrier, the dog of the day,
she asked:
"Mr. Muldoon, what constitutes a per-
fectly made MANI
''One whose neck, biceps and calves
all measure the same"
1t 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 tat the women are larger,
look more healthy, walk better, and
from 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 hoy 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 man
down and are looking him straight in
the eyes and know that you Lave him
almost in your power, what Ere you
thinking of"
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
1 want him to be-"
Then he was asked, GLOW long have
you been an athlete?"
'Since was fifteen years old, and
am now forty-one. weigh 215 pounds
in my clothes, 205 in fighting trim, or, as
the say in the south. in the buff. After
/ was thirty -fve-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 womenp 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, a woman who
is gentle and affectionate and who isn't
loud. 1 like woman whose face is
clean, not daubed all over with rouge
and powder. like woman who has a
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
countryp
The inquisitive one said she did-she
was seeker for knowledge.
.'It 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 a 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"
"But about women"
81 think there are 100 good women
to one good man, and where a woman
makes mistake it usually is the fault
of man. 1t 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 a window and left to get
along as best they cam
"Who is your favorite actor"
"Mr. Booth.
.eWhat are your favorite fowcrs?"
"Violets."
"What is your favorite color?"
'Pale blue"
And then, with a characteristic jump
o,J oo1orc tho inU11icit;va