Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-11
OPEN-A|R EXERCISE
How a Business Man Can Re-
new Health and Strength.
APPARATUS ALL READY
LOG AND FENCE CLIMBING FUR
NIsH GOOD SPORT.
Make a Fine Pretense Of Doing It All
According to Regular
System.

Copyright 1903, by Anthony Barker)
Written for The Evening Star by Prof Anthony
Barker
Hello Jones; whatd you do during your
yacatfon?" is common salutation heard on
city streets in summer.
The answer is equally in one key:
Hello, Brown, old man. Simply ate,
drank and had a good time-dances and
all that sort Of thing, don't you know.
A few days later on Jones meets Brown
again and Jones enters complaint.
by CAD. old man." says Jones, don't
know what's the matter with me. Thought
I'd come back feeling fine and ready to eat
up work. But here l am all run down al
ready
Jones' case is a common one and springs
from a common cause. He and MS KIND
neglect to avail themselves of the real
object of vacation time. They fail to repair
the ravages of months of Office work by a
few minutes spent every day in practcing
a system of outdoor, hot weather physical
culture. They never give their muscles a
thought; they spend all their hours seeking
what they call "a good time" forgetful Of
the aftermath of previous vacations They
utterly neglect to take advantage Oh
natures health-giving gymnastlc appara-
tus that hedges them about and Is as free
as the pure air that they could take into
their lungs i'll great quantities II they only
would.
This neglect of physical culture in sum
mer time can often be rightfully charged
to the man who IS assiduous in taking eX-
ercise in his room during the months he is
cooped up in town. I'm stop exercising
now" he says to himself, since l can get
out into the OPEN" But he doesn't stop
taxing his strength and there's the rub. He
forgets that exercise in the open air will do
him infinitely more good than exercise in
a room, where air Is received at pest
through two or three windows. 1t Is a bed
rock principle of all sciences that have to
do with bodily health that the body cannot
have too much fresh air The man dlsre-
CARDS this principle; he throws away MS
best opportunity of getting life-gfving oxy-
gen in greatest abundance. So at the sea-
son when he should be feeling his pest,
when everything that grows Is In greatest
vigor man alone suffers from muscuiai anu
mental deEreSSion-
To remedy all this let the man away
on vacation while on his Httie eXcur-
sions to country, mountain resort or sea
shore take up system or not weather
physcal culture. He will not be at II long
before he will find that 1t is far more eX-
hilarating than working in gymnasium
with dumbbeils; that Improvement Is more
speadily shown; that agility and self-re-
lance is developed in abundance, and that
he ia being made over so rapidly that his
friends are wondering how he has managed
1t in such brief time.
This is especially true OF that system
of open-air physical culture that has to
do with hill and log or fence climbing, two
of natures best kinds of gymnastic APP
paratus.
Hill Climbing.-To get the right kind OF
exercise from hill climbing select a hill
that is not too step. Take as long step
inward as possible, at the same time sup
porting the body on the rear leg every
bit that you can Next plant the cane or
staff that you carry in one hand firmly in
the ground as far ahead as you can reach
and still keep erect. Figure - Then 81
simultaneously place the body's weight on the
forward leg and advance the rear leg for
a long step between the other leg and the
cane Repeat the movement when going
down hill.
The balancing caused by this exercise
brings into play the upper legs, the thighs,
the small Of the back and the abdomen
while bending. The shoulders and arms are
also strengthened by pressing hard on the
cane and If care is taken to hold the cane
alternately In each hand, development will
be even.
The exercise Is fine for heart and lungs.
as it stimulates deep breathing without spe
cial effort
Fence Climbing.-Preparatory to fence
climbing it would be well to do the fol-
lowing exercises on logs and other low
obstacles Then the muscles brought into
play will be gradually builded up to the