The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-08-07
Muldoon's Health Farm
and Its Strenuous Life


Life is more than strenuous at the |
Muldoon farm in New York where
Secretary of State Root has gone to
prepare himself physically for the final
round in the Roosevelt administration,
according to Dudley Grant of Oakland
who spent six weeks at the famous
hygienic institute on mis- last trip East.
Mr.. Grant says that Muldoon is called
the Gear" by the inmates of the
establishment, "but he's more than
that, he IS terror" to those who break
his iron clad rules. One day million
aire brought his son to the establish
ment ard told Muldoon to take him in
hand and treat the ex-cherub as if he
had succeeded to the guardianship.
The young man was barely twenty
years old but he was pasty, soft and
in general decline, morally, mentally
and every other way. He was an in
veterate cigarette smoker and insisted
on having bracer every half hour or
she was "'all in.n AS usual Muldoon
searched the luggage on its arrival and
threw away the bundles of cigarettes
and bottled bracers," The young
man protested. Muldoon gave him one
look and said, "While you're here,
you II do as | say or there II be trou-
bic. Cut out all smoking and drinking
and follow the rules The young
chap laughed and declared as usual
that he d do as he pleased. The same
afternoon he smuggled in a lot of
cigarettes from the village. Muldoon
caught him smoking, flung him on the
ground. destroyed all his cigarettes and
cuffed him hard. "Go to the gymna-
stun and take your exercise" he order
ed, "its the hour "Go yourself"
was the blunt reply. Muldoon caught
the patient on the chin and he went
to grass. Then the old time champion
wrestler picked him up, carried him to
the gymnasium, thrust boxing gloves
ON his hands and stood him up. "Now
box" said Muldoon. $50 to,' said
the defiant ex-cherub. The wrestler
pummeled him all about the room and
then called a rubber to put the remains
in shape for supper. This contest of
wills lasted two days and then the ex.
cherub, badly battered human, meek.
ly joined the procession of nerv. pros.
: which means patient down with
f, nervous prostration. Two months Later
he walked into his fathers office in
New York, rugged, robust young
athlete, with all his old habits left fal
behind him. Now he says Muldoon 4
the greatest ever.
Muldoon will not tolerate the slight
est infraction of his rules and therein
| lies his success. He says his institu
tion is a necessity to Americans be
cause they try to do too much. He re
) fuses to enlarge his institution becaus,
/ he thinks he would slip into the sam,
r methods and try to do too much. Ill
e handles about thirty patients at time
A o an old time California friend h,
a recently said: "I am sixty.three year
e old and ! would like to see this institu
g tion perpetuated but who will take /
{ mp when / am gonef / have trie,
d dozens of applicants but none have fill
e ed the requirements. Only a shor
time ago student from one of TIL
: big universities came to me splendidl
e recommended. fine, big strapping fe
: low and of course well educated. TIL
lay after he had been installed he cam
n to me and said, 81 notified the patient
i that YOU put me in charge and I tol
e them to do certain things and the
o didn't obey, What am | to dot
e Pack Your baggage" said, "an
e clear out of here. You can be of n
use to me. When i tell people 10
d things. they do it-they don't stop
IT argue
= According TO Mr.. Grant, who is n
ie plodder, the days work at MnldOon
r came harder for the first fortnight tina
e. any six days work he ever put in
Id his life. But it did him good. He lo
L sixteen pounds the first week and gra,
ually his muscles became as hard {