Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-16
Pauline Pry Has a Talking Bout
With the Strong Man.
Ills VIEWS ON PHYSICAL CULTURE
Some Advice He Gives to the Wo-
men Of America.
HIS POWERS OF ENDURANCE

Sandow and / have met, and 1 am caring
the championship belt We fought at the
Arlington this morning. with bell boy for
refer ee, and at the end of the third round
Sandow was mine.
The details of the fight are as follows:
First round-Pry lights into Sandow with
a heavy bristol board visiting card; Sandow
parties the thrust with a message, Il am in
bed" Time, 10 am.
Second round-Pry let's out at Sandow a
page of pathos. begging him, as he is strong.
to be merciful, and get up. Sandow comes
back at Pry with the crushing blow, Il am
asleep" Tine. 1920 am.
Third round-Pry reaches for Shadows
weak spot. and gets in a card on Shadows
wife; Sandow is knocked out. and will see
Pry in an hour. Time, IL am.
At the end of an hour Sandow had got up
as far as his tub. and Mrs. Sandow came to
tell me this. At first glance. one doesn't
understand exactly how Sandow was con-
quered by this bride. She doesn't carry
anything like the little sling with which
David laid out his giant. and she doesn't
look a bit like Delilah. She is a not extra
ordinary English girl; slender: tailor made;
a face that is not plain; a pair of great
baby eyes; hair more or less histrionic-her
hat very much so. and her voice-theres
her power. I'd rather have the voice than
Delilah's hair.
You know" said she. its too bad Mr.
Sandow Is not ready. But he is very par
ticular about his sleep and furious IL any
body wakes him before noon"
Still, when / said sympatheticaIly, I
could fancy just how afraid any woman
must be of a man as strong as Sandow she
quickly assured me that he is perfectly
harmless.
The Mighty One Appears.
I more than half doubted her. however.
when Sandow finally descended upon me-
At all events 1 was afraid of him. On the
stage without his clothes, Sandow Is a
giant. Dressed in a drawing room, Sandow
locks Ike a powerful. earnest man, who
knows his business so well it would be
safer for anybody to monkey with a buzz
saw than with any of his serious convic-
lions. Consequently, when / said to him:
lift me, Mr.. Sandow?" and he blew his
breath at me as If were feather. I did
not press him to toss me up in the air.
Moreover, he had shaken hands with me
just like the Prince of Wales, so that his
manner combined with his muscle to sub
ordinate a weak woman.
Failing to personally ascertain just how
strong Sandow Is, begged him to tell me
how 1t feels to be strong. DO you feel as
IL you could whip Corbett or Fftzsimmons? ?"
AS you walk along the street are you con-
scious of your superiority over other menu
i asked.
shrug of the shoulders. ''Of course L am
afraid of nothing AS for Corbett and those
men, L am not a fighter. / exhibit my
muscular development to show to the
world what every man and woman can
become il they have the will power and the
brain to cultivate their bodies 1t Is not
exercise of the muscles alone, but the d.
lection of the intellect to the task that has
brought me from a sickly boy to what 1
am. Yes; L am perfect-not an Apollo, if
you please. But perfect by all the measure
n.ents that made Hercules a perfect man."
Power of Endurance.
But what's the use of being perfect as
Hercules / asked. IF every man was
Hercules you couldn't make anything out of
Hercules on the stage. In the course Of a
day about town do you find your muscles
any use?''
Sure. II need be / could go fifteen days
without eating or sleeping. 1 have done
this and lost not a half pound of flesh,
simply because by my perfect physical con-
dition L have such powers of endurance.
When 1 do eat 1 can eat everything
smoke. / drink what 1 please. Nothing
ever hurts me. Drunk? 1 can't get drunk.
have not the natural impulse to get
drunk. because a perfect physical man has
not any need of stimulants to urge him to
excess. But l wanted to know what 1t
seems to be drunk and tried to find out
once. 1 drank bottle of whisky. and a
don't know how much. Then when I was
so full'-measuring two inches above his
collar-"I could hold no more and 1 was
sick, but never drunk. That was ALL was
full. was sick-no sensations, no head the
next morning. My head Is always clear
and my brain is acttve-I work 1t all the
time. No matter what or how much do
i am never tired. never weakened"
Don't you get weak when You meet q
cross-eyed man or are put up at hotel in
a room numbered 1872" l asked.
No; have no superstitions-not one. /
would sleep on thirteen graves in a grave
yard at midnight on Friday and never flick
a muscle"
Won't you please let me see you flick a
muscle?' / asked.
Very well. Put your hand-no not one
hand. both hands, around my arm so. Now"
Then something inside of his coat sleeve
gave spring. 1 suppose 1t was a muscle.
1t felt like a bar of iron.
American Women.
will you not tell me what you think of
American women, Mr.. Sandow? Mr.. Bour-
get thinks we are depraved in a chaste way.
Have you found US so? Do many of us fall
in love with your"
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