The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-01-30
BENEFITS OF STRETCHING.

Stretching is good exercise. When
a man can not wake up in the middle
of the night or in the morning and
take a good stretch he ought to kick
himself into some sort of comprehen-
sibility, says the New York Press. A
vigorous stretch in bed or out of it is
calculated to excite all the nerves,
muscles, veins and arteries of the en-
tire system, thereby stimulating the
heart and action and enlivening the
dormant brain. You may not know
that the brain sleeps. 1t requires a
stirring up. All the cords and ten
dons in the body need rest. They
need awakening also. All the vitals
must be aroused. Stretching is a
frst-rate rouser. Stretch stretch
stretch |!
/ do not believe in strenuous exer-
else. 1t overstrains the 1igaments.
Besides, it is not needed by active
men. Athletes are short-lived. They
are so crazy to Guido each other in all
sorts of foolish performances that their
systems break down. Most of them
drift into consumption. Look up the
records. While DR.. Joseph Noyes
King advocates the use of the hori-
zontal bar, he is not too radical. His
house is fitted with nickeled bars at
every door, capable of sustaining a
weight of 800 pounds. When not
used for stretching they hold up cur
tains ard portieres. Every one in the
house stretches. There is no such
thing as walking under bar without
reaching up for grasp and stretch.
The immense power of the gorilla,
and, in fact, of the whole monkey
tribe, is derived from the horizontal
bar activities of the forest, swinging
from bough to bough with one hand
or both.
Some men are wondrous strong of
arm. Others have supreme strength
ofback, othersof neck, others of thigh,
others of calf, etc. Some have mus
cles like knots, some have them long
and stringy. Give me the long-mus-
cled man every time for endurance.
The monkey is deficient in leg. He
walks but little and seldom runs. He
does most of his travelling by means
of his arms and tail, the latter being
his sixth sense. 1t is a billion pities
man lost his prehensile caudal appen-
dage. 1t would aid him immensely
as strap hanger. He could hold his
newspaper in both hands while hang
ing by his tail, carry lot of bundles
in his feet and be semi comfortable.
EASY WAY TO REMEMBER DATES.
The following lines, committed to
memory, give an easy method of sta
ting of-hand the day of the week of
any date in 1908:
Just mothers arms, my jocund Jean;
A spell DER Natures dream.
The number of letters in each word
represents the date of the first Satur-
day in the particular month to which
il corresponds. Thus, Just" for
January, has four letters, because the
first Saturday in January is the 4th
of that month "a" representing
February, has one letter, as the first
Saturday in February is the first day
of that month, and SO on through all
the twelve months.
Each word of the twelve, excepting
the first "a" begins with the same
letter sthe neutrality-suspicious.. Thus
Gust" begins with J because January
begins with J; mothers" begins
with M because March begins with M,
and SO on all through, with the ex.
ception of A for February.
Having obtained the dates of the
first Saturdays, the date of every other
Saturday in the month is got by the
addition of the necessary number of
sevens, from which it is but step to
any intermediate day. For example,
to know the day on which Christmas
day fell last year, dream" standing
for December, has five letters, so the
first Saturday i'll December was the 5th
of that month the second Saturday
was the 18th the third the 10Th the
25th, being six days more, gives Fri
day, six days on from Saturday,
London zst-Bit.