The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-09-07

tense at his work. He covered the fifty
feet allowed him like a machine. al
ways pausing at the end of his beat for
his three deep breaths. He appeared
abominably healthy, too. which made
him all the more aggTavating to one
who had Iunched well, but perhaps not
too wisely. Peace was out Of the ques-
tion with this exercising automaton
constantly projecting himself into your
vision. One could not enjoy the repose
of nature with this robust person, like
sandwich man on his beat, advertise
ing the physical woes OF humanity and
showing himself as after taking"
1 fled to the lower deck to forget him,
and In a chair in a secluded corner
sought to lose the memory OF him in
my paper. He was almost out of my
mind. The study of the mysterious
crosses of the Black Hand letter is so
engrossing. Then from in front of me
came a deep drawn breath. L looked
up to see two arms raised high In the
air, with ten fingers clutching slowly
but firmly at nothing. The man could
not see-only his broad back and head
but the quivering shoulders, the out
stretched arms and elutching fingers
had but one message for me. He was
fainting. In a moment he would roll
back on me. and to save him | sprang
up and grasped both wrists.
With a blank look and a blank ex-
clamation he turned. and looked into
the face of my friend w.
'Fainting2" 1 cried. DO you want
water or whiskey?"
Painting? Rot" said he, I'm exer-
cising. That was the horizontal bar
was on.
''Where?" asked, scanning the air
about me for some sign of gymnastic
apparatus. found none, and turned
to his eyes, searching there for the
wild, uncanny CLEAN we read Of
81 was on mental horizontal bar, :"
he explained, more calmly, and as he
showed no further signs of another out
break sat down.
Il thought 1t was a fit Of some kind.
said 1 +.
Not at all" w - answered, you
are behind the times. You will be in
your grave when am working on the
trapeze. I'm taking Flubdubow. am
exercising where / am. If you had noe
stopped me then I'd have circled the
bar"
Its evident that you have been cir
cling about it good DEAL" / suggested
mildly.
He look at me as though in pity,
"A natural Joke, said he, for one of
your calibre. But you really misunder-
stand. work in mental gymnasium
There was no bar there, but that made
no difference. was not going to
break my neck by turn on the deck.
When reached up my muscles were
loose, but would have closed my
hands slowly, stiffened every muscle,
pulled the imaginary bar down, and
then I'd have the same effect as though
lifted myself. Seel This IS the par
allel bar effect"
/ In amazement / watched him. He
looked like Bryan on the silver issue
/ rather than like a sane man with a new
1 fandangled system Of calisthenics on
the brain. His arms were outspread,
his fingers were firmly closed on air,
his muscles were quivering, his Shout
ders twitched. His face seemed to be
red with passion and the eyes started
from his head. He got his hands bacl,
! to his side by violent effort and let Qua
/ a long breath. He was himself again.
/ "See!,' he said Try it. feel a thou
sand per cent. better since I've been do
ling Flubdubow regularly"
i DO you never get arrested?" I asked
Have you never received first aid for
/ the injured treatment ~
/ My friend laughed scornfully. Eve
rybody does it, he said. There see
that white-haired old gentleman by the
newsstand. You think he Is kicking al
his bag He's really doing the rowing
4 machine exercise. And that woman
there with the baby on one arm So
i how she works the fingers Of her free
hand-she III lifting herself on ira
peze. It's splendid, isn't it, to see eve
Try one developing their physical side
this way. No more sickness. We are
/ working back to the primitive strength
of our ancestors. Take 1t up. You are
behind the times.
I left W in his chair swinging the