Evening star., 1902-03-22

. forego the common pleasures taken in mod
Grafton On the contrary l always enjoy
them. The secret is exercise constant eX-
ercise. To know every muscle of the 1863
or more and to develop them to the fullest
| eXtent-this will overcome any physical i'll
| We all have our limitations, but We too
| often think that we have reached them.
Il would apply the same principle to the
| training of men of advanced years as l
| would TO those in early prime, but perhaps
| not the same method. If a man finds at
| sixty that he is weak, he needs only to go
| to work to make himself strong. just like
one half his years. but, of course. intelli-
gently and from his own standpoint.
have had pupils of eighty years of age and
built them up aStoundingly.
'Oh, 1t Is never too late, never While
there are life and will power Cato learned
Greek at eighty, did he not? And the late
Queen of England mastered HindooStanee
in her seventy-fifth year. | believe. Age
has nothing to do with progress if the Ell
thusiasm and will power are there.
| 1T is my ambition to revitalize the youth
of this generation and make them physical
ly fit for the highest duties. | have been
at work i'll London for some years to this
end preparing soldiers for the frontier
! and tiremer for the crowded city.
Last year l gave gold, silver and bronze
statuetteS valued at 1.uoc guineas for stu
dents of physical culture who showed the
best results under my system. There were
100 competitors. and the first prize winner
was a poor clerk from Nottingham who
eighteen months before was ordered to get
out of England to save himself from the
raVages of consumption. That man has
every right to live to be a hundred years
old, and every day of his life he will be in
glorious physical health if he takes care
of himself. That is what 1 would wish
every young man in America to do. 1t is
only question of the mind-the mind un-
derstand. The muscles will obey when the
brain leads, never fear Be patient and
constant in exercise
The man who would keep well must ac-
custom himself to daily cold sponge baths
There is nothing more invigorating. 1t will
create proper appetite, not false one.
eat little and often. 1t is folly to attempt
to live on two meals day, for one is sure
to overeat-the great trouble with Ameri
cans. Your lunch system here Is atrociOus.
1t produces dySpeptics and makes men pre-
maturely old. To eat six times day and
to eat little at each meal is better than
one overwhelming meal"
ITO any one who contemplates learning
tricks the bicycle 1 would give only one
rule-'practice makes perfect 1t is an old
one, but there is nothing else that will give
the same results as practice
The speaker was Nicholas Kaufmann
head of the trick cycle troupe, probably
the most expert wheelman living. He has
fore czar and emperor, and he has book
of press notices that is regular volume
in Russian. German, Austrian and French.
as we'll as English. He was talking about
trick riding and how to become expert at
it.
There is no secret about learning to
ride a wheel in trick fashion" ne went on.
when l got my first wheel 1 tried, as
most boys do, all sorts of experiments on
it. 1t was of the old 'ordinaries,' the
only kind We had In those early days tried
mounting from the pedals. first on one side
and then on the other, standing and NOV
, ing, and advancing from step to step, till
l felt as firm on my feet on the wheel as
l did on the ground. / tried the same
things first right-handed and then left
handed. and over and over again 1 tested
every possible position that could be con-
ceived of on wheel Every spare moment
l had was put in in this way. 1 laid out
regular program of acts, and went through
all of them every day
In spite of his many tricks. Kaufman
has never met with serious accident.
Once, in Budapest. he came near ending
his career, but a nice soft dish of Hunga-
rian gOuiaSch saved him. He was in one
of his most daring tricks. when he felt his
wheel slip From nearby box a rope was
swinging, and letting his wheel slide he
graSped for it, and secured it. But contra
ry to his expectations. it swung loose with
him, and soon he was dangling over the
audience. The slack continued to lower
MIN. till he fell right into the middle of the
supper that a party had before it at
one of the little round tables. The supper
broke his fall
kaufmann's troupe consists Of his neph-
ews and nieceS. He started life as a book
seller and in 1883 he had gained a reputa-
tion tor cycling. which finally won for him
the titles of champion of Europe and Of
the world. in trick work.