The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-23

through at three or four in the after
noon may very well take walk or a
swim or engage I'm calisthenics after
they leave their appointed tasks. But
men who finish SO early in the day are
not ordinary toilers. The class Doctor
Walker has in mind are those who stay
at their daily routine till five or six.
His exact language is worth repeat
ing. Indeed. il hardly would be fair to
cite a man on such a subject as this
without quoting his words. Here, then,
is his exact language:
Though headwork is not exercise in
the sense that il develops the body. it
most decidedly is exercise i'm that il
quickly induces flag and physical lassi-
tude. SO il is almost pathetic for
man TO expect any good to come from
taking more exercise when the exercise
involved in the days work has already
tired him out. one takes it that young
people have had sufficient outdoor ex-
ercise reasonably to develop Their
frames before beginning Office work.
So when once they have started i'm the
office in earnest il is much better for
them TO realize at once that their days
Of hard physical strain are over and
that henceforth they must confine
these efforts TO week ends and holidays.
The body and system easily attune
themselves to circumstances, even to
over-civilized and consequently rather
unnatural circumstances and indoor
headworkers will soon find that
good state of health can be maintained
with little or no exercise.
Every man who is engaged in Office
work during the day must have noticed
at some time the different effect upon
his feelings Of long walk on Sunday
and a long walk after days labor on
a week day. The former is invigorat-
ing. inspiring JOY during its pro-
gress and a benefit afterward, the good
effect OF which often is found to linger
through the week. The office man who
INDUCES in a Sunday walk is blithe
when he sets forth, and even If he is
somewhat fatigued when he returns,
his WEAKNESS is merely Muscular and
passes off. His whole system is re-
freshed and invigorated by the oxy-
gen which he has taken into his blood.
by the exercise TO which he has put his
and by the change and recre-
alton, which he has afforded his mind.
Very different is the effect of a walk
taken late in the day after many hours
OF exacting toll.
II is better as a rule to forego exer-
else than to take it when the system
Is run down. The remark Of the late
Senator William II. Evarts may be re-
called in this connection. When asked
how he preserved him health, working
as he did, on problems of law and
statecraft. at an age beyond the
fsalmist's term, he replied, Il never
take any exercise" The Senator had a
'ense Of humor and delighted in para
ioxes. AS a matter of fact he took as
great deal of exercise. almost all Of it
Intellectual, but he was abstemious in
,ating and drinking, and thin and wiry
n physique.
He demonstrated the truth of Doctor
Walkers declaration that n good state
# health can be maintained with little
n no exercise, but had he not been
rained to abstemiousness as well as to
indoor work he would have died
'ounger than he did. For the vast ma
ority of human beings physical exer-
Use is an essential of physical we'll
'eing.