The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-08-21
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Not half enough attention haa
been paid by our writer's OF
Athletioa hygienios and physioa
culture, to tho virtues Of tho LAw1
Mower g A apparatus fora ffordine
invigorating exercise, pushing baot
1.-The shoulders, expanding the chest
developing the hexols and extensors
q both arms, putting springs il TIE
knees ealargiAg tho calves quicken
ing the operation Of tho digestive
organs and getting up 4 wholesom,
Precipitation. II al tho virtues Of
this 9 machine were fully understood,
the exercise it affords would be pre-
ferred 10 golf or tennis-perhapa
oven to baseball. 49,. -. p.
Exercise with q mower. how.
ever. involves the necessity Of q
place to NOV; and herein is the
great drawback to the populariza-
ten of said exercise. Blessed is the
owner Of the city lot, and thrice
blessed is he whose lot affords a
broad expanse of lawn! For then
can the mower go forth to NOW
with the assurance of an hours
delightful occupation and exercise,
not merely once a week or onca a
fortnight, but, if he husbands
his pleasures, several times a week.
For he learns to so temper his
mower to the shorn lawn that he
can make the grass yield cuttings,
where once, ere he reached to the
high art of moving, it yielded only
one. Whereas he formerly set his
blade to cut as close as possible to
the ground, he now multiplies his
opportunities, and benfits the grass
at the same time, by setting the
blade higher and thus insuring
something to cut a few days later. !
Cut close to the ground. and exposed
Immediately thereafter to hot sun,
the grass browns from the partial
killing of its roots, and is revived
with difficulty. Cut often, but not
so close, it thickens and laughs in
tresher green.
One forms the same attachment
for his lawn mower, after while
if it is good machine-he forms
for boat, a horse or a gun. He
learns it's points and disposition,
and the secrets OF it's we'll being.
He is able to do things with it, after
a while, that a novice will not
dream of. No terrace or patch of
uneven ground has any difficulties
for him. He takes delight in show
ing how closely he can cut to a flower
bed without cutting the flowers;
how he can penetrate and NOW
seemingly inaccessible hooks and
corners. The thing that tantalizes
him when he has warmed up to the
full enthusiasm of his art is the fact
that as yet he cannot NOW quite up
TO- wall or fence, but must needs
have some blade of grass for sickle
or shears. He dreams of an attach
ment out side the wheel of some
future mower, which will enable
him to cut every blade of grass on
his lot, however it may snuggle up
10 wall or fence, without the aid Of
those old fashioned tools.
+: The lawn mower comes to have
such q fascination after while that
It deserves recognition among the
instrumentaities for the promotion
II good citizenship. 1t attracts it's
nser to early hours. For him at
eventide, in summer, it is q magnet
II housekeeping power. You may
be pretty sure, if he pushes it on
rented lot, he will have another
powerful incentive to Saving up"
md buying a lot Of his own some
lay. To him the thought of having
10 lawn to NOW. no grass to cuti-
rate, will have become intolerable.
Such deprivation would make life
inc long winer. Winter, it is true,
brings the delights of the snow
'hovel; but what are they beside the
,xhilafation OF the lawn mower!
*,% THE BAND PICNIC.
The picnic given by the band
Tuesday was not very largely at