Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-09-21

is sixty-twO and half. Yet Muldoon
still looks as pretty as the bloomy side
of an Elberta peach, and he can punch
the bag, box, wrestle, ride, walk or
work to the limit of endurance for any
one of his patients, even the youngest
and strongest of them.
Genesis of MuIdooning.
In his early manhood Muldoon was a
cavalry officer. He served during the
civil war and in the regular army aft
er the war. 1t is said that he con-
ceived his theory of building up run
down humanity in the service on the
plains, when gangs of recruits were
sent to him to be made into troopers.
Many of the men who enlisted in those
days just after the war were sorry
specimens of humanity. Most of the
good ablebOdied fellows had had too
much of war. 1t was difficult to get
recruits. But when a man was starv-
ing he was willing to enlist, and Null
doom got many of that sort. He put
them through a regular course of train
ing-in eating, sleeping and working.
They made new soldiers. That gave
MuldoOn his idea, which he put into
practice quarter of a century later.
1t was the genesis of muldooning
Those who go to MuldOon's place go
to him who must be Obeyed. The pro-
fessor is the commanding officer. He
looks over the man and tells him pre-
cisely what to eat, how much and
when. He prescribes just SO many
hours sleep, usually about nine. The
recruit must get up when the COM
mander knocks on his door, about
o'clock. When Muldoon says work he
must work, whether it be some form
Of play exercise or real labor in the
| fields. If a man needs something in
bis diet to make him sleep better, Null
doom feeds him lettuce, but more often
he feeds him work.
Once man went to MuldoOn's who
was troubled with sleeplessness. Al
''taps," 8 o'clock, every light is sup
posed to be put out. The professor no.
ticed some time later light in this
mans room. He was reading.
"All right, my man." muttered the
professor.
1t wasn't all right. It was all wrong
That was merely the MuldOon way OF
keeping to himself what be intended
doing next day to the derelict one
He simply put on the patient con
| siderable amount OF extra work, say
ing nothing as to having caught him
with his light burning after taps. That
/ night Mr.. Patient excused himself
shortly after supper and retired. He
slept soundly until the professor rap
ped on his door next morning at 6.
Medicine Ball Drill.
Mr.. Muldoon has invented one form
Of exercise which looks amusing t.
the outsider, but it is said to be the
| most eficaciOuS of ALL 1t is the medi
cine ball drill. The professor conceiv
| ed the idea of making some balls rang
ing from six to thirty inches in diam
eter. The men at the farm divide int
sides every morning and proceed tt
| pass the medicine balls. No mar
knows at any moment the size OF
weight of the ball he is going to get
tossed at hin. 1t may be little fel
low or the biggest in the series. This
keeps him mentally alert as well as
| physically.
Any system that trains the body and
neglectS the mind, according to Null
doom, is false to the first principles Of
physical culture. The ability to see
think and act at one and the same
| time is the secret OF success In ath
Ietics as well as In life, says this mas
ter muldooner Of men,.
When Secretary Root went to Mul
doon's some weeks ago he was in 8
condition which gave his friends much
alarm. He had been working too hard
The secretaryShip Of state is no sine
cure. Mr.. Root was run down. Fol-
some time he had been thinking Of go
ing to Muldoon's, and his friends ad
vised him to do so.
''Mr. Root feels like a new man al.
ready" said the professor few days
ago, and the secretary of state was
seen to leap into the Muldoon wagon
at the postoffice without touching the
step, which went to prove that he was
physically active.
The professor will not let Secretary
Root work at official business more
than two hours a day, and some days
he is said to limit the premier to half
an hour, according to his condition.
Horseback riding is prescribed
daily, winter or summer, rain or shine,
and a daily walk Of four miles or so
is in the curriculum of this school for
regularity. The Muldoon guests, from
statesman down, are simply pupils un-
der the professor, who is quite pug
nacious man, by the. way, and will
brook no interference with his author
ity. If a secretary of state or any
body else declines to obey the rules,
what happens? Well, the head master
is not authorized to go to the woods,
cut a birch switch and apply it. But
he shows the farm gate to the obstrep-
erOus one.