The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-19
How to be Strong
(By Montgomery Irving, Phi. D.
IAN the strength I Need"

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During a journey home from the
steamers several years ago it was my
good fortune to meet a doctor from
Chicago, a man we'll along in middle
life. and his bride, q charming young
girl Of perhaps twenty-five. The doc.
tor con1ded to me that they were
homeward bound from their honey
noon. Each morning as I took my
forward deck. long before the ma
jority of the passengers were astir,
the doctors wife, who was an early
riser. too. would stand and watch my
work with intense interest, and ! aft.
erward learned that she was an ath-
letic leader in her college class.
In a talk with the doctor one day
such ideas as physical training. my
wife is CRAZY over exercise" said he.
She's at It every day and. further
more. she thinks you're Just about
IT. because you get out there on deck
at 5 a. m. and take deep breaths and
climb up the rigging on your hands
with a sailor ahansing to your waist.
contented the way I am. 1 don't car.
a rap for big muscles and exercise.
get enough of it out of, my practice.
and I have all the strength I need
When the ship stopped at Malta all
hands scurried ashore to see the town
and make purchases. The starting
whistle a few hours later found all on
and his bride. They rushed down to
the dock Just in time to see the great
vessel gliding slowly away into the
stream. A small boat was brought into
service and the belated tourists were
rowed out to the ship. but not until
the vessel had picked up some head.
ladder and ~ it, as nimbiy as a cat,
stepped the doctors young wife. to
the intense delight Of the passengers.
who cheered her to the echo.
Then came the doctor. He waved
the Maltest boatmen away as they
tried to assist him and firmly grasped
the ladder. AS the small boat dropped
ana to add to his discontinue the big
ship began to pick up speed and
splash him. He made two rungs on
his long journey up the ships side
when along. came a nice big wave and
wet him to the waist. BY this time
the doctor. who had told me, 81 have
all the strength I need" was no,
simply Of clinging fast to it. The
next wave that hit the terrified bride-
eroom vent completely ove him and
the shock Of 1t so terrified him that
he let go his hold and slipped of into
the sea.
The cry Of terror that from
the passengers lined along the rail
found Its echo in q splash caused by
"a figure in white that had leaped off
the after-part Of the ship, striking
the water. 1t was the doctors splen-
did young wife. She swan quickly
to his side and held his head well
above water until a small boat that
had been lowered from the ship took
them both In. -
This actual experience tremendous
" impressed me with the value of
physical training. Here was q man
supposedly the protector of his mate
in life. not only unable to even help
himself when but ordinary strength
was needed, but obliged to accept teh
aid of the very one who was supposed
to succor: What a sorry figure. In
deed; and what q splendid figure was
the girl wife. who, when the pinch
came. rose to the occasion grandly,
showing the calm. superior quality Of
heart. strength and confidence that
should have been in the man! And
this IL the fellow who said to me: II
have all the strength I need"