The daily sentinel., 1910-07-15
...Jabs..
By E. A. Sherman.
ARE OUR LEGS DETERIoRATING?

ARE OUR LEGS DETERIORATING?
We are moved to the consideration
of the lack of development Of the
neither limbs of the human race OF
this generation, by q headline which
appeared over an item in last Mon
days Denver Republican. Rich
, Young Men Eschew Auto for Leg EX-
ercise"
Just how far modern methods in
/ buciness and loccmotion have tended
to cause atrophy or lack of develop
ment OF the leg muscles would be
rather difficult to ascertain. The men
do not wear limb covering sufficiently
snug to reveal any attenuation, and
| the fair sex-well, our natural mod
esty would prevent us from anything
like an inspection even If such were
permitted.
In the first place, the messenger,
on his steed of steel, does not permit
| the business man to Just step over
to Smiths" as was his wont in for
mer times Instead he pushes the
button and a uniformed Mercury does
the errand for him. But that is a
minor factor in the case.
To our notion, the chief obstacles
20 lower-limb development are the
telephone and automobile. In the
former turks. possibly. the greatest
foe to bulging calf and bulky thigh
Mrs Gadabout rests in languorous
ease on her divan, the while she gos-
sips over the desk phone. which may
be cuddled up to her even as a pug
/ nosed pup.
Flossie Chiffon needs not to gallop
down the street to- swap dressmaking
opinions with Alice Applique. She
may rcpose her dimpled elbow on the
arm rest and exchange suggestions
with her chum over the telephone
wire.
Dottie Dimple no more parades the
pavement waiting for her steady to
steal a few moments from his clerkly
duties to whisper sweet nothings in
her shell-like ear. She merely calls
up the office and says to the phone
girl. II would like to speak to Clar-
ence-l mean Mr.. Quilldriver,-on
important business matters" And
then they giggle and simper over such
subjects as caramels and theater par
ties
Mrs Housewife scorns to take mar
liet basket on arm and wend her way
to the emporiums of culinary COM
merce, and, after selecting her sup
plies, wend some more and carry
them home. The handy phone pre-
cludes such necessity.
But the automobile lis the bane of
the wealthy and well-to-do in the
matter of leg laXity. If there is one
man above another who can afford
to be athletic. IL is the pampered son
of plutocracy; yet how rarely these
days does the rich mans son take
honors in purely leg supremacy,
About the only time the multimillon-
aires legs avail him is in the emer-
gency OF cvading Indictment service
or in pushing his more or less corpu-
lent person under the gasoline -gorged
torso of an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. au-
tomobie.
1t is so much easier TO lightly ca
ress lever with the index toe of the
foot and chug along at 40 miles an
hour than ii is to get out and hike
II over the country when the perspir-
alton is ready to squirt from every
pore before the start is made
Physicians are judged by the
horsepower and cylinder equinment
of their motor cars these days. 1t
used to be that they ranked accord
ing to their riding stock or their own
lanky shanks. But, alasl it is thus
no more.
We believe 1t is high time that a
note of warning be sounded ere we
become nation of spindle-shanked,
lanky-leSged, lean-limbed malforma-
tions. Let the curled-hear and ex-
celsior dealers decry our plant as
they choose; it is their business to
do so; they would sell more artificial
cNtenders, But we stand for a great
moral principle, and will not be
squelched. Let us form League of
Loyal .Leggers, and let our motto be
GIVE me legs or give me death"