Evening star., 1911-01-29

"Of course all games requiring delicacy of touch and
mere games at ALL They demand the most accurate
adjustment between various nerves and muscles. The
eye has to notice the exact spot ball in the
case of moving ball at lawn tennis will occupy
fraction of second after it and the muscles OF
the have to act in unconscious obedience to the
eye The motor and sensory nerves have to synchro,
nize, if you what mean. He paused moment and
adjusted the last piece of plaster.
There are various causes that may give r1se to I'M
perfect synchronization, he said 80 that one times
the ball wrong, did twice this morning. 1t
may from fatigue of the nerves, fatigue OF the
muscles, or, again. act of indigestion, small that
you are not conscious of it. may put the mechanism out
of perfect ORDER some inequality OF circulation
1t is mostly due to taking your eye OF the ball,
said.
Certainly; but why do you take your eye off the
ball? Because the muscles that govern the movement
of the eye are acting mperfectly, and because the
muscles of the aims slower to act than the eye
knows, that youehave not actually struck the ball.
when your eye tells you that the stroke ought to have
occurred.
1t was clear that the innocent game of golf
being made grst for the mill OF health and tired to
rescue it.
= II take my eye off it," said merely because am
not attending but thinking about something else There
nothing fatal to try to reduce games to microbes
and You shall eat at lunch to-day all that you
know most dgestibe you shall rest aterward you
like you shall convince yourself that your heart is acting
normally, and yet your game will probably be below
contempt And the will be that you can't play
golf There is no reason why you should can't play It,
either; but am quite wei"
HAVE detailed this trivial conversation at length be-
it marked stage in the development of poor
Poers disease which here seemed to have invaded the
realm of recreation and to be longer confined to his
work And shortly aferward the determining OF
his ruin in the apparently cheerful fact that an
aged and aling of his died leaving him fortune of
half million dollars He instantly retired from
his profession and devoted himself to what he called
original work.. Money had given him leisure, which
to is the greatest blessing, but to the
greatest To him it proved the most pungen OF
curses for it made possible for him to study the laws
of health and fe not for the sake of alleviang disease
and pain in Others but by concentrating his whole mind
himself.
He began by leaving the city and settling in odious
villa in order to enjoy greater purity of air. This he
learned about by careful analysis, and found that
sample of the villa atmosphere, in the center of
town. contained twenty per cent fewer microbes than
corresponding specimen taken from Madison Square
This "ampler ether he specially inhaled in bouts of
deep breathing, and have often come upon him in
of the garden with expression of about to
burst, else snorting like steam engine Then he
gave up alcohol altogether and took to drinking ster
lied milk with his meals. The sterzed milk led toward
obesity; so he made practice of running aimlessy
about for hour and half before breakfast in order to