The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-09
HOW TO KEEP WELL.

It is better TO take pleasurable and
exhilarating exercise in the open air,
on green playing fields, than to swell
ter in smoky cities and lounge at
street corners or in crowded cafes.
For games, when rightly INDUCED in
constitute for those who are perfectly
sound In wind and limb a most heath
full recreation.
At the same time one must not think
that the participation in games is a
means Of gaining health for those who
are weakly or who are suffering from
scme illness, whether functional or
otherwise.
AS matter of fact, even those who
are hale, well and strong and full Of
lusty life, often find that certain of
the consequences, both direct and indl-
rect, pf games are not altogether ia
vorable TO good health, while for the
ailing or delicate person they are in
nine cases out Of ten most injurious,
and certainly not to be recommended.
1t must be remembered that there
Is no such thing as an "all-round"
game that is to say, there is no
game which impartially exercises and
develops all the muscles Of the body,
In nearly every well known athletic
pastime one part of the body will be
found to be developed at the expense
of the others Certainly there Is a ten
dency in this direction.
Now, when a muscle is exercised, "a
certain amount Of wasted tissue Is
burnt up and the flow Of blood toward
the parts affected is stimulated.
The tissues call, as 1t were, to the
blood for assistance. They ask 1t to
bring more oxygen, more nutrition to
them to replace the matter that has
been burnt by exercise. And the blood
responds to the appeal. 1t flows in in
| creasing volume to the parts exercised,
which thus withdraw some of the life
| giving fluid from organs and tissues
which perhaps require 1t more than
| they do.
Say you are a sufferer from chron-
, IL dyspepsia, and that your digestive
organs are weakly and their functions
dtsorganized. You take part in some
game. You bring violently into play,
perhaps shortly after a meal, certain
muscles. These muscles draw blood to
them. Your digestive organs, already
weak, are still further enfeebled by
the diminutlon in the supply Of the
blood that nourishes them. And, there
| fore as result of the exercise you
have taken, your malady, instead of
being cured, as you had hoped it
would be, is actually aggravated,
Amy one who suffers from any chest
or lung complaint should eschew Wig
orous athletic pastimes as he would
eschew damp sheets and wet footwear.
Too many are unaware of the urgent
necessity of this. my chest wants de-
veloping,' they argue; exercise does
undoubtedly develop the chest, there
FORE" they conclude most illogically, II
must play games"
They forget that exercise can be OBJ
tained in other ways than by taking
part in athletic contests. 1t is not the
possession of the cricketer, the cyclist,
the oarsman, the footballer alone.
Quiet, gentle, physical movements, SCI
)eEtif1cally directed, regularly and care
fully performed, will do more to de-
velop the chest than any amount of
| haphazard exercise taken in the course
of a strenuous forty-five minutes be-
tween the coach lines, For there is al
ways danger in athletic games: The
lungs may be filled too full of blood,
and II they are at all weak then hem
orrhage may ensue.
| Not that l wish to say, as may be
seen by the opening paragraphs of this
article, one word in depreciation Of
athletic games when practiced in mod
Grafton under rightful conditions and
by the right individuals. But wish to
impress most strongly upon my read
ers that haphazard exercise can never
usurp the place held by scientifically
| directed exercise in the curing of III
health. The human body is such a
delicately constructed organization in
many ways that all care must be tax
en- not to throw its machinery out of
order by any rash tampering with its
mechanism Eugene Sandow in the
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