The Washington herald., 1911-12-10
By JAMES b. MORROW.

New York, Dec. 9.-This is said to be
the day of the young man. 1t is OF the
young old man. Likewise, the young old
woman. Mothers of thirty wore caps
fifty years ago. We are married and
have children. Beyond a bombazine
gown for Sunday" they seemed to say.
all dress is vanity"
At thirty-five fathers began to wilt at
the base of the neck, got thin in the
legs, and let their hair and boards grow.
Teeth, front ones, were pulled instead OF
filled. Calomel was given in ten-Sraln
doses. Boiled cabbage was thought to be
family necessity. such, anyway, was
village life in the United States, with pie
for breakfast in certain localities and
dOughnuts boiled in pigs lard at least
three or four times q week.
The race survived, Notwithstanding. It
was sallow, sometimes irritable, and
more or less chronically disturbed in the
abdominal regions. Man existed to toll
as did woman. Maybe this is gehenna,"
q country merchant ventured to remark
meaning the earth itself after losing
$S,CNN during the afternoon and eating
sausage and apple dumplings for sup
per.
The world was pretty dull in those
days. The fires burned low. On the
ruins of digestion. however, and out of
because The attribute of strength re-
manned. biology. which is the science of
life, has raised UP a comparatively happy.
healthy, and good-loOkinG generation
TIE tailor, shoemaker, barber, milliner,
jcweler, and the dentist are workers in
biology, but are not 50 recognized
Grandfather Jaw up ana shoulders back
shorn and shaved, dressed in the latest
fashion. would scandalIZe his daddy were
that dreary old gentleman to arise from
his grave and look around (which is
tho mother anG which is the daughter"
Often no one hut woman can tell
The Greatest Human, Problem.
The science of living, in its various as
pects-unc Of which is TO prepare for
dying-is the greatest of all earthly prob
lens. Philosophers now omit money as
an element of happiness though mankind
is rather crazy on the subject. The
philosophers however, are mostly poor.
Medicine ranks next to money in popular
desire and among human delusiOns.
multitude Of men carry it in their vest
pockets. Excuse me-" only the pOlitest
Of them will say, while I take a tab
let All of them probably ride down.
town in the morning and go home at
night in street cars. No: this is not to,
he an article on pcdestrianism. But why
has a lady a surplus Of Chins and why is
p gentle man, circumferentially. YOU un-
derstand. as large as a sugar barrel"
Dr. Luther HaIScy Quick. an important
officer of the Russell Sage Foundation,
knows, and he has curo-Cure is the ac-
CuTate word in this connection.
Indeed Dr. GuliCk knows so much that
i vital t. rontentment and health that
lie has been driven to put some of his
knowledge into books. The municipality
Of New York once employed him to su-
: 70 nh Of
C1 school children. He organized the
work and turned elsewhere. He thought
ont End created the Playground AsSOCia-
ti"n Of America. starting it in Washing
ton. Again, he turned to newer task
He establishes and moves on. That is
his aptitude. Genius is. perhaps. bet
tor term. Just now he is planning a na-
tional fraternity "f girls that the coming
woman may he taught how to live in
doors and outdoors. and how to use her
heart, eyes. and hands as we'll as her
head. Even a. it is. his influence is felt
in every American community. l should
call him A biological engineer, a phrase
Of his own, but not coined to he attached
to himself, Promoter Of health might
sound palmer and come nearer to an eX-
PLANTATION of his Ohioct-yOur health, Cv-
erybodN's health. 1t is "A big job.
The GuIick scheme of life.
Foundation. which has made him direc-
tor Of its department Of hygiene. with
its fund Of SlO,oCOCUo. is not bothering
with any other kind. Compressed into a
sentence. he is striving to establish the
balanced life. i'm which there must be, if
balanced. work, rest, mental relaxation.
fresh air and friends There should he
pleasure with physical exercise: other
wise walking or bedroom and gymnasium
CaliSthenics are of restricted value.
Once while he WAS in Boston, he heard
a mother say to her small daughter,
whom she tightly Clutched by the hand:
Take deep breath. Mary; it will do
You good. What Mary needed WAS to
run. dodge, and jump with dog or a
companion Then sh'. would have taken
many long breaths without knowing it.
Mary WIS a little gill. but the lesson in
her cas-" is applicah" to growm-up
women and men.
II was not Dr. Gulick's purpose, in the
first place. to pioneer d work of his own
toward a physically perfect race. He
meant to operate among the heather, to
he a medical missionary, as was his
father at the timn There is the quality
Of romance in tho facts that kept him
at home. And not at home, either, ue-
cause he was born on the Hawaiian
Islands. in the city of Honolulu, when
Kamehameha V was king His child
hood, however. was spent in Yokohama,
where he played with japanese children
and learned TO speak their language as
Glibly as he spoke his own.
1t was in Japan, when he was thirteen
years old, that Luther Gulick organized
his first society, The Jolly Boys of
Yokohama" Son OF a missionary and
the Jolliest yoUngSter in the crowd he
fought with his fists and read dime