Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-04-30
NHu IND HIS BODY.
Daily Exercise an Absolute Pre-
requisite to Good Health.
HOW TO DEVELOP MUSCLES
An Excellent Treatise on the Needs
of the Body, Together With
Some Instructions as to the
Modes of Exercise.
Modes of Exercise.

Physical culture, or the prupe.
use OF the entire physical or
ganism, is IN this, the end of the
nineteenth eentary- beginning a
last to secure tie attention of tht
thinking pu,lic, which it SO vel
merits.
In tbs long ego when Greece
the centre OF tue arts and tht
chief seat OF the sciences, WAS in
its cory, gymnastics were az
corded theiL proper position.
Fair A thens, famed Ill story ano
in song, thought it but right to
establish schools of physical Gull
ture adjoining its universities
that the student might grow in
body as well as in mind.
Ia fact SO great was the inter
est taken that documents, State
aud otherwise, we're dated from
the Oiympian games, while the
crown of laurel or bay leave S
with which the winner was
crowned was often proudly worn
by the man whose form was en-
wrapped in the Senatorial toga.
The motto, mems Saua in cor
pore sano, was fully appreciated
by the ancients, and partly to
this do Rome and Greece owe
their great renown. The people
at this busting age. engaged all
most solely in pursuit OF the elus-
i've dollar, think that the human
body Is simply a machine, sells
running, self-lubricating. and
needing no attention, forgetting
that every piece OF machinery
must need some repairs, and
that a stop must occur to replace
worm or weak parts, otherwise
we have a complete break down.
ALWAYS UNDERGOING REPAIRS.
Through the economy of ma
ture mans being is constantly
undergoing repairs. Nature, the
great architect, is never still,
and every second is adding new
material to take the place of that
worn out or wasted. 1t should
be the aim Of every man to S
sist nature in it's arduous task,
and by a judicious course of exer-
else help TO replace the WORKOUT
tissue, and aSsistin making him>
self a new man.
All men can no more be skilled
athletes than they can be poets
or painters, but every man can,
unless physically disabled, Lring
himself far nearer bodily perfec-
ton than he now is. Thus havs
d sound mind in a sound
body" to be better able to follow
his daily avocation, because in
the knowledge thai he has a
body we'll able to stand the strain
put upon it by the healthy mind.
WITHSTAND DISEASE.
All doctors agree that a man
in good physical condition can
stand that legacy left US by our
first parents, disease, with much
better chances Of recovery than
one who is the opposite.
While it is not possible for US
all TO become Shadows we can,
by a judicious amount of exer-
else, become far stronger aud
more a physically perfect
than we now are.
To the average man it is inn
possible to have a thorough
course Of training such as is
used by the crack athletes of to~
day; but auy man or woman can
develop themselves in the pri>
vacy of their own room with but
little expenditure of time or
money! OF course, ifitis possible,
it is better than one should have
some appara tus namely, a
health lift. Indian Clubs, dumb
bells, punching-bag. course rub
bing towels. etc., and while a
great aid, they are not abso
IutalV