The morning news., 1899-05-24
BRAINS AND Drawn.
Sometimes One Is Needed and some
times IL Is the other.
From the New York Press.

the muscular development OF man was
more important that what he could learn
from books has filed our asylums with
paretics. The athletic training was terri
bly, overdone. The ignorant Greeks and
Romans, who thrlvcd on war. massacre
ana rapine. needed sand and grsile They
We're common dogs. with actually no need
Oh inteheets. The british Instinct was
dominant
The man who goes down town in The
morning after a Light breakfast reaching
his office about $3.50 or 10 O'Clock does not
heed vast amount of muscle to accom-
phsh the trip. Once there he sits around
doing a little of this and a little of that
suI without seriously straining his sys-
teta. He goes home in the afternoon feel
ing the want of exercise and at Il he goes
IKE killing snakes lie rides half cen
tury on his bike. sallops three times
around The reservoirs, swings 20-pound
dumb-bels, cavorts with l0-pound Indian
clubs, pun rubber stretehers. tires himself
out on the ladder and the horizontal bar
Then comes wash down and dinner Aft
er a shower bath he feels like a fighting
cock for ten minutes, then comes lassl-
tuae and longing for bed
Al the hight of his fame John Lawrence
Sullivan trained with one-pound dumb
''si0f - lihN acquaintance OF ms was AZ
The same time tearing his heart out swing
ing 22-pound clubs. If any man requires
brute strength, hardness of flesh quick
ness of action, IL Is the prize fighter. They
used TO say that Corbett fought with his
heaCl-his brains. Well he is the biggest
fool Of the whole LOT. See where Pompa-
dour Jim has landed What he needed was
less brains and more sand and grit and
grstle.
Men go staggering around town trying
their grip. They like to show how hard
they can squeeze a friends hand. They
have been exercising ten, fifteen, twenty
years to strengthen the muscles Of their
palms and fingers. Why, | know black
faced Old negro washerwoman who can
squeeze the bones out of half the hands
in New York, She acquired her vast
strength by wringing out clothes ana
milking the cows.
Men go around swelling out their chests.
Tut-tut! They have developed with years
of practice with clubs and bells, throwing
their hands behind their back etc. The
man In this city who can show the finest
chest development never used club or
a bell in his life. He never tried to rip
his front open by elapping his hands to-
gether behind his shoulders. Every morn
ing when he gets out of bed he goes to a
window and breathes deeply of fresh air.
He inhales IL until his neck swells to the
bursting point then slowly exhales. He
does this about three or four times, giving
the ozone time to take effect on the lungs.
He has never taken other exercise in his
life and for a perfect picture of health l
can recommend him.
Signor Fanciulli, the musical composer
and orchestra leader, eX-director of the
Marine Band, and at present director Of
the Seventy-frst Regiment band, likes to
ask his friends TO feel OF his neck. He
wears about seventeen collar. Place
your fingers around his throat and feel
how soft it is. Like girls. Then-"Now
choke-a mey' The muscles suddenly be-
come rigid as steel and the hand can
make no impression. "Ah, only a leetle
| practice" he explains. Look at the neck
| of the Italian woman who carries home
on her head 500 pounds of lumber or other
| street find. Since early childhood she has
been carrying heavy burdens on her scalp
| But her neck is not nearly as steel-like
as Fanciullrs. and he never toted any
| thing heavier than his hat and brains.
He made his neck firm by expanding and
| contracting the muscles-merely an act OF
will. 1t would not be possible 10 hang Fan
with a rope
There used TO be a druggist in Broadway
near Forty-second street. who had re-
markable strength of arm side muscles.
The familiar feat of placing the elbow on
a table, holding the forearm erect, grip
ping an opponents hand and forcing II
down horizontally was what Is called In
whist his long suit. Strong men used to
go TO Fendler's place TO have a go at him,
but he easily excelled all. 5e yanqulsh-
ed apparently without effort, and no one
ever saw him take exercise He was a
man OF medium stature.
In these days men do not fight their way
through the world by bun and brute
strength but by attention TO ledger and
law books. Our greatest men are our
business men. This is a trading country
worse, even, than England, where dukes
and lords sell cheap stuff at a profit. But
trade needs not muscle It requires
sharp wit, clever ingenuity, a bon mot
and bonhonies Some smart Alecks call
these straits by other names. But let
that pass. The things TO cultivate just
now are an automobile a private car
yacht a garf link and the races He
who does that will sell goods.
One of the clever statesmen In New York
connected with a giant dry goods house In
Broadway earns easily $25 900 a year That
is gross He spends $4,000 annually to
hold and increase his trade leaving net
wage of $4,000. You wonder how IL hap
pens that he finds time to do business. He
attends the races day after day and gam
bles TO the furthest limit OF his purse He
breakfasts at Delmonico's and dimes at
| the Waldorf-Astoria. He occupies the
more desirable seats at the theater and
opera. He helps TO support no less than
six barTooms In the immediate vicinity OF
his place of business. and lunches at an
expensive cafe between Il and /. But
listen He is al all times accompanied by
a customer. to whom he is showing things
that interest said customer. He Is not
obliged to take said customer through the
store and beg him to buy. He sells him
on the course, at Dels, az Boldrs, at the
play. lie is charming good fellow, the
customer finds, and presently the two are
| friends for life. That's brains, not mus
Gle.