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EXERCISE FOR THE ovERsrouT
Why Golf or Walking Is Better
Than Driving or Motoring.

From the Youths Companion.
Although the food that one takes often
has much to do with the amount OF fat
put on and restriction in the intake of
fat-forming foods may prevent the for
nation of more fat in the tissues or even
effect a reduction, it is seldom that this
alone will prove efficacious.
A strict diet is irksome and most fat
people are too easy going to carry ii out
faithfully. This is not that they are weak
or deficient in self-control. but they are
too happy and content with their flesh to
be willing to suffer overmuch discomfort
in any effort to rid themselves of 1t.
Moreover. too radical q change in a diet
may prove Injurious and it is better to be
too fat-a little too fat,anyway-than to
suffer from indigestion or damage TO the
kidneys. as one may easily do by incon-
siderate and injudicious dieting.
1t Is much better to restrict somewhat
the intake of fat-forming foods enough
TO prevent the increase of fat and to eff
feet the actual reduction by mechanical
means-that is to say. by exercise. mas
sage and in certain cases by the wearing
of a belt or abdominal bandage.
Massage when skilfully performed-not
simply desultory rubbing here and there
will do much in reducing flesh. when
combined with dieting and with active
exercise in the open air.
Exercise-Systematic. active exercises
OF the greatest value in restraining a ten
dency to the overproduction of fat and in
causing reduction of fat already formed.
1t must. however. be combined with diet
ing, otherwise it's object will be defeated.
1t naturally increases the appetite espe-
cially when taken in the open air, and If
this appetite is satisfied with the articles
of diet that the fat people prefer the last
state will be worse than the first.
The best exercise Is walking-not stroll
ing. but rapid. springy walking, with
shoulders back and arms swinging. This
kind Of walking fills the lungs with oxy-
gen. which burns up the fat, puts all the
muscles in motion. by which a natural
massage is effected and increases the cir
culation, by which the waste products are
more rapidly eliminated.
Golf is an excellent game for the over
stout. and so Is tennis IL the heart is
strong. Equestrian exercise is also good.
but driving and motoring are not the
ways to reduce flesh. as they increase
appetite and assimilation without giving
the requisite exercise.
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preparing 10 reach over the gun'l for
her. she called out 10 him:
please go away. instantly, Don't you
dare come another foot nearer met
The amazed hfeguard stood up in his
boat and gazed Then his eve caught
sight of some green things floating over
the tops of the combers on the outgoing
tide. The lifeguard gTinned. reached
over the side of the boat. picked mp the
lifebuoy. sat down at his oars and pulled
back to his station the breaker line.
Half a dozen women who knew how 10
swim. experiencing a feminine bunch
that something was wrong with the
emerald girl, as to the nature Of which
IL was none of the lifeguards ans
other male creatures business, waded
out. They formed a close Gordon around
her. After the briefest possible confer
ence. one of the women ran out of the
water and into one of the public bait
houses on the Boardwalk. She returned
to where the close Gordon was still
formed around the emerald girl. carrying
more women waded out to make the
Gordon still closer. The combers hrone
over them. but they didn't appear 10
mind. After about five minutes the
Gordon broke in two. and the young
woman who had been the occasion of its
formation walked toward the beach.
When she emerged. somewhat shame
facedly. upon the strand. and started to
race for her bathing pavilion, she
no longer an all-emerald girl. One of
her stockings was black. and the sandal
and cross-ribbons were absent from that
black -swathed extremity. When the
grinning lifeguard pulled in. a while
later. to allow his relief to take his place.
he had a neat little green bundle under
mis- arm. He found the blushing owner
of the salvage and restored IL to her
Neptune. always counted a sardonic ola
sinner by the women folks. is now viewed
with particular suspicion by those mem
berS of the sex who use hooks and eyes
to make certain of their bathing gar
ments fast.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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On Manners.

TOHN r. DREXEL, at a dinner in New
J port, said of good manners:
1.-The Hottentot thinks his manners are
the best the Frenchman thinks his are.
the cowboy thinks his are, even the sail
or-but listen.
Il once attended a reception on a man
of-war 4 distinguished statesman.
visiting this man-of-war. dispensed with
the usual formal salute. l heard a sailor
near me say:
who's that blubber what don't tip his
skypiece to the skipper?'
.''Choke your luff.' returned another
sailor That's Senator Dash, the famous
tariff leader
Well growled the first sailor, why
amt he got manners enough to salute the
quarterback
.Manners- third sailor Clipped in.
what does he know about manners?
don't suppose he was ever out of sight
of land in his life
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woods competent and honest judges were
placed at each of the thirty homes of the
cats with instructions to time the exact
moment of the appearance of the re-
spective feines they were looking for.
good deal of interest was aroused
throughout the town by the event, and
one Of the local preachers mentioned the
matter in his sermon. calling it sinful
gambling. The cats were turned loose
from the farm wagon exactly at o'clock
on a Saturday afternoon. and by that time
most OF US who had bets down on the
outcome were sitting orr the courthouse
steps waiting for the first judge to turn
up with the announcement that the cat
he had been appointed to time was back.
At exactly 2:40 a young, fellow named
Dan Buck came running Up to the court
house at lope with cat. under his arm
1t was Bucks cat and the $50 was. of
course, his. Then other fellows came
running up with cats. until all the cats
were back but Jake's. Jake's isn't back
vet. That was two years ago. and, as l
say. Jake's cat still is absent. OF course,
Jake suspected that somebody had"
But then the gang began to trot back to
the Treasury building, and it wasn't as
certained what Jake had suspected.
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POOR BOYS AND GREAT MEN
BY DIR. MADISON c. PETERS.

preached and unapproachable America.
was the son of weaver and a weaver
himself: Mohammed. founder of a new
religion and who changed the face of
empires. was an orphan at eight and aft
erward camel driver: Copernicus. who in
troduced the modern system of astron-
omy. was a bakers son; Stephenson. in
ventor of the locomotive. and Watt, per-
fector of the steam engine, were both of
poor and humble origin: Shakespeare. to
whose far-reaching. all-embracing genius
all the world does honor was the son of
wool carder, Robert Burns, who has
taken his place In the galaxy of British
poets as an immortal. a star Of the first
magnitude, whose light CLOVIS brighter in
the night of time. vas plowman: Daniel
Webster, the most versatile statecman
America has produced. worked on farm
as boy, and when a student at Dart
mouth friend sent him a recipe to
grease his boots. he sent back word, My
boots need other doctoring: they admit
water, and even gravel stones; Henry
Clay. whose passionate appeals and fer
vid periods placed him first among Amer
lean orators. was the mill Boy OF the
sashes,' his widowed mother being so
poor that she could not send him to
school. but conscious of his oratorical
abilities he began TO speak in a barn. with
QQlY -horSe- and 1aC an .andien.:;.
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foaming at the mouth a little:
About ten days ago." he said. my
stenographer-girl kind-did an elopement
stunt and left me up in the air. So put
an advertisement in some New YORK
newspapers for stenographer and type
writer Didn't specify whether l wanted
a he or she-just stenographer ana
typewriter. / took on the first one that
came along the next morning-an anemic-
looking girl with myopic eyes, but l had
too big a heap of accumulated corre1
spondence to do any picking and choos-
ing and when the girl assured me that
she could do the work 1 told her to take
off her bonnet and shawl and we went
at it.
1.-The girl appeared to get on all right
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in-arm. being somewhat guyed. yes. by
all hands as they made off.
A Few mornings ago a tall. long-strid-
ing. generously -feshed girl. with Boadicea
bronze hair hanging free below her waist.
went into the surf with two girl COM
panions. Her bathing dress was a fetch
ing. snug-fitting thing of emeral green
mohair. green silk handkerchief to
match was knotted about her hair. Her
stockings were OF emerald green silk and
her white canvas sandals were held on
by cross ribbons OF green. with bows at
the knees. AS she stepped gracefully to-
ward the verge with her arms about the
waist of her two companions. she was
easily the locker of her part of the
strand. Her companions were water timid
and did not venture into the sea much
above the bottoms of their skirts. The
girl in green left them and strobe out 10
where the water was above her waist.
1t was obvious that she was a swimmer.
When she got into comparatively deep
water. however, she made the mistake
OF turning her back to the breakers to
address good natured jeers to the two
girls who stuck to the shadows. She was
doing this and reckoning to them to join
her. when a big comber. rising ten feet or
so behind her. broke upon her back. and
turned her over and over like cork.
The lifeguard in the nearest boat got
busy a s soon as he heard her first scream.
He arose and tossed a red life buoy at
her She made no effort to grab for 1t. al
though it hit the water within an arms
length of her, but continuing to emit little
shrieks, as she bent over as IL something
were clutching her beneath the water.
The lfeguard grabbed his oar and rowed
over to her.
Now. just keep a-hold of yourself and
don't faint, lady" he called out to her as
he pulled at the oars. "I'll have you in
the boat in q jiffy."
The girl ceased her cries and looked up.
She gazed at the lifeguard resentfully
as he continued to approach. When he
was within ten feet of her and was
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to pick out what looked like the dopiest
and most lukewarm of the bunch.
There was one slate-colored mule In
the bunch that looked like he couldn't
and wouldn't run half a block for the
honor of the nation. That mule was SO
tired looking that he positively leaned
against fence in the paddock. The wise
people, including myself. picked out that
mule that ought to be cinch favorte
to run last, and we began to back HIM
off the boards. Everybody around the
grounds played that mule before the
books had been opened long. and when
that mule went TO the post he was a l
to 3 favorite, and the rest write your
own ticket The nervous. kicky, on
edge mules stood all the way from 20
to 1 to 100 to 1 to finish last, and we all
thought it was like getting money in a
letter to be on that dopey looking mule
at such a good price as to ], which
most of the early birds, like me. got:
Well. that weary-looking, slate-colored
mule got away first. at the bang of the
drum. and he simply spreadeagled his
field all the way. finishing his race
twenty lengths to the good, pulled to
pretzel The glossy-coated. nervous mule
that was the rank outsider in the bet
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the last day of the fair. A purse of
500 was hung up. and the mule that ran
last was to cop the purse for Its owner.
Now. that looked easy enough, didn't
1t? All that the owner and rider or
his mule had to do, you'll be supposing.
was to let his mule loaf in the race, or
snatch him. as they call pulling an ami
NAL nowadays. But this wouldn't have
done. Of course, for all of the mule
owners would have tried the same dodge,
and then there wouldn't have been any
race at all.
Therefore, they fixed it different. That
is, no owner of a mule was allowed 10
ride his own mule. Each of the owner
riders had to ride one of the other fell
lows mules. See it? Then it was up
to each man on top Of a mule to ride his
long-eared mount for all he was worth,
in order to better the chances of his own
mule to finish last.
There were two or three local book
makers on the track, and when the
chalkers came to this race they made the
price } to and take your pick. All
of us that wanted to put bet down
on the race had the privilege of looking
the mules over in the paddock in order
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Prohibitive Expense.
From Puck.


Columbus. plainly foresaw that he would
never discover America until he should
have beguiled the fears of his sailors by
making the egg stand on end.
But with eggs 80 cents a dozen this
is impossible he exclaimed ruefully.
King Ferdinand hereupon suggested
having his law officers proceed against
the egg trust-that was the best he could
think of doing: but Queen Isabella, with
deeper insight into the necessities of tine
case straightway offered TO pledge her
jewels, which were Of immense value.
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ing father of the baby-and the baby's
father was quite comfortably soused by
this time t'ink I'm jerry t wot's bitin
dat kid O yourn. 1t wants a drink o
water I'll try it on. anyhow. and ne
disappeared for a moment and presently
returned with a glass of water
AS soon as the bawler saw the aproned
Young Teller bearing down with the glass
of water. it began to let up and TO glug-
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zens of Dubuque had mules that possess
ed turns of speed, and, of course, they
Dragged themselves hoarse about their
respective mules. Now, while mule has
a whole lot OF commendable points, his
long suit as you know. isn't speed and
these mule owners were good deal
kidded for their talk about thoroughbred
mules
The managers of the Dubuque fair
finally decided to put all of those nifty
mules down on the card for a race on
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glug and choke and splutter. and reach
young Teller placed the water glass to
the gasping babys lips. and the baby
drank and drank and drank; and then.
having had its drink of water the baby
forgot to emit another bawl, but just cud-
died back in its mothers arms and went
to sleep: and the young Teller with the
apron was heard to mutter pleasantly TO
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Climbing Bird.

From the Megxendorfer Batter.
Herr Schubert am trying to make
your parrot talk, but he won't.
Newly knighted parvenu-Ah, he won't
talk to ordinary people now.
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himself: II wonder wot desc ginks aroun'
here would do In de yelln' line demselves
IL dey was as bad off FIR somethin FIR DER
parched t'roats as dat kid. wot?"
And for the rest of the journey he was
the most popular han'some waiter that
ever made a run on the Hudson or any
other river
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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HIS New York pat
ent attorney who
makes Washington
twice a month ex-
udes the cryptic
S t a t e ment that
there are stenog-
raphers and ste
nographers. But it
isn't so cryptic
after you've lis
tened to his mar
rative. He pulled
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.O of those lunch
room liars of 10Th
street were pulling
long ones on each
other the other
noon hour.
"D'jevver hear
a mule race?" said
the one from
Iowa. I'VE had one
out in Dubuque
when / was out
there. Seven citi-
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n II q r y D6tDlnS
girls are on the job
on tine sand as usu-
al this year. Why
dry? Easy. Dry
because they're not
wet. Too deep?
Veil, dry, then,
because they won't
and don't go into
the water. They
don't don bathing
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HE baby bawled
and bawled and
ba wled and ba wled.
That makes four
ba wis. But four
m i lilo wouldn't
express just how
this baby did ba wi.
This baby, as a
matter of fact,
seemed to have In
vented the whole
art and process Of
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sity of Hard Knocks has graduted the
best scholars.
Poverty. instead of pinching, dwarfing
and shutting up man. rather enlarges
and ennobles him and sets him free.
The best dowry for boy Is childhood
spent outdoors. Eighty per cent Of the
college students come from the farm The
country and the common people have al
ways given to the world it's seers and
sages.
Call the roll of the great and glorious
in life and death-they were born in man.
gers Of poverty and Graded in obscurity.
Fully So per cent of the possessors of
palaces In America were born in poverty
and brought up in the country. Genius
has rocked her biggest children in the
cradle of hardship.
One of the winning forces in life con-
sists in being handicapped. Columbus.
discoyeEe.4.of QeeIless. Enz.xa.sd Anana.
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dron or a. once. colored maid ac-
complaining them gathers up the skirts'
and the five women of the stage. sKrt-
less and free. race INTO the Watef -.
well hey ond the breaker line, and cavort
around like dolphins for quarter OF
an hour or SO without SO much as touch
ing the bottom with their feet AFTER they
reach the swimming depth
Then. forming once more in a body,
they make for the shadows again. grab
their skirts from the colored maid. hop
into the skirts in something less than
ing pavilion They're all pretty, and
their little act has come to be one OF
the expected and waited-for features of
the Kaleidoscope bathing game down
here.
A pretty Philadelphia woman was trun-
died up and down the beach in wheel
barrow the other morning. The man who
furnished the propelling power Is we'll
known amateur athlete and gilded young
male pairson Of Baltimore. The woman
was propped up in the barrow-an ordi-
nary contraption of its sort. borrowed
from one Of the hotels lawn gardeners
on a lot of soft cushions She was. of
course in bathing dress. and bright baby
blue silk stockings. with big blue satin
bows at the knees. dangled over the
dashboard of the hOmely vehicle. The
squat Boardwalk cop-all of the Atlantic
City cops, by the way, apIear to be OF
the chopped-off variety-who approached
the Baltimore youth and intimated things
to him as to the propriety Of the proceed
ings. was in momentary danger of getting
n pounding. for the Baltimorean had dined
pretty well. even though twas yet but
the forenoon hour. But friend of the
Baltimorean arrived opportunity and
whispered few things to him. whereupon
he trundled his handsome wheelbarrow
passenger into the sea and dumped her
there, to her obvious amusement. for she
laughed and larfed, oh, SO heartily. The
two padded about I'm the water for bit
and watched the WheelbarroW float out
to sea, and then they left the beach arm
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have her name mentioned in the papers.
/ won't mention IT. But she's a pretty
woman, and when you say that about
woman in vaudeville you're saying some.
thing exceptional. She dosn't fall for"
that getting wet business. either. She
has the matured physical .splendor of
thirty-five. although if you mention that
awful figure to her face you'd probably
ferocious person sicked on you. She bikes
herself out in suit of the whitest and
sheerest silk, bound with red silk braid.
Her stockings are of red silk. and she
wears sandals with 'em, the cross rib
bons of the sandals being likewise of red
silk. She wears a nifty little white silk
Tam OShanter on her chestnut locks. and
her arms-the arms of an Annette kel-
lerman. too-are bare to and above the
shoulder.
This f1gurante Of vaudeville rides for
an hour or so every forenoon during the
bathing time. up and down the beach,
big black horse that she brought along
with her for her strand constitutionals-
She just ambles the charger up and down,
keeping at a proper distance from the
folks seated on the sand, and she looks
serenely unconscious of the stares that
are leveled at her all up and down the
line. When she has logged all she
cares to she turns the horse over to a
male servant. who is waiting under the
Boardwalk, and then. with a disdainful
sort of glance at the whimpering sea,
she disappears under the Boardwalk
steps into a coupe and is a vanished
vision. She hasn't so much as dampened
the soles of her sandals up to the pres
ent hour, unless by crossing the dewy
grass of the lawn surrounding the chalet
in which she lives.
Then there are a pair Of dry-bathing
blonde-not blondined-sisters who get
themselves up in directoire-cut bathing
dresses of vivid orange silk. with orange
silk stockings, sandal ribbons and all
the rest of the gear The only touch of
any other color in their makeup is the
bright green bowknots which they wear
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in their hair. Irishmen on the Board
walk and on the beach. while expressing
their admiration for the unimpeachable
physical conformation of the young
women, can't help but view with an
aslant gaze this juxtaposition of the
orange and the green.
These Blonde Babies. as they're ir-
reverently dubbed by the watching
bunch, drive on the beach at the bathing
hour every forenoon in a trap of a bright
orange body. pulled by pair of small
white donkeys rugged out In russell and
silver harness, to which many tinkling
little bells are attached Both of the
donkeys wear straw hats. with Sits Tor
the ears and trimmed with orange braid
of the same tint as the young women's
bathing dresses
The Blondes. like most of the other
dry-bathing girls, conduct themselves
with the greatest propriety, although
when they first made their appearance
on the beach in their trap they sent the
donkeys along at a lcketty-spit clip.
which caused them to be warned for fast
ously regard the moaning surf as some
thing merely to be looked at for they
haven't done any having Of their orangi-
ness in the brine up to the present IN
slant of writing.
Then there's a quintet OF actresses,
living in a cottage over Chelsea way.
who. while not dry bathers have a little
stunt that gains a lot of attention. They
all rig themselves for bathing in fetching
blue mohair suits. not, for reasons which
will afterward appear. cut in the always
and-always directoire fashion. They're all
expert swimmers. and their little per-
Torrance is a mute but eloquent protest
against the heavy hampering skirts
which conventionality requires women 10
wear in the surf on this side OF the
Atlantic.
They don't do much paradinG. hut
after dallying about the sands for a spell
they all get up and approach the water
in body Just as they reach the verge
they form themselves together in close
group, and then, presto. their skirts all
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vHE cottage has contributed more
than the castle to the making
of manhood. the country has
given birth to more great men
than the city and the Cniver-
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1T IS THE

peciaI Correspondence OF The Star.
ATLANTIC CITY, August 6. 1909.