The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-24

Physical culture systems which are so light as not Co in duee perspiration, and so mecTanicaI as not to arouse q
 Ticker of interest have been widely advocated of late years. The profes- sorss' who promise great results from
 such scoursess are in the same class with the patent medicine men who pronise to cure anything from IIl
 digestion to thber cnlosIs with out any change in diet or mode of living ana merely by taking something out Of a bottle. The person who induIges in such sexercises always rerninds me of a eat chasing its taiI and one is about as futile as the ot finer On second
 thought, the feline chasing it's 4caudaI appendage probhb1y gets more exer- else and fun out of the process than the human does from his ssget- we'll quick system. Arriving at that con difion popuIarly called nervous and run down is usually long process, and 1t can't be cured in a day nor at all by any me thod of twiddings the | fingers or Wiggling the toes. Hard work is required. and discouragenlent turks away along the path. The ft- test survive, and reap their reward in | slowing health. In beginning exer- ciss. don't undertake something so
 @sissified', as to be worthless, nor, on the other hand, don't let your en- l tht1si a.sIn; rsI1l away with your judg-
 
 else that is very hard at first will soon become easy, and that means if is time to tackle something harder. i If you keep on with forms of exer- cfse that are so easy that you lose in- terest and do them mechanically. you are only wasting time. F ssEs
 Physical .educatIon in the public schools has made great progress in
 the last few wears, but it. is yet far from perfectiop- The sozcalIAd cal- isthenic drills in some schools are about l the most 1alnghable things I have ever
 witnessed. This does not apply to all l schools, of course, but in a great many l the attempt at physical education is merely amusing Ins colleges and l universities the athletic situation is even worse. Many young men take naturally toe athletics and the result ] is that they overdo it. and spend much l more time in developing their miTscles than their brains. Many others are l so eager to gain am education that i they neglect phy ysica1 traiu nj ng eptirely,
 and by oHerworlx too close mental ap-
 pEcations and Jack of exercise and fresh air, become nervous wreclxs. The l happy medium, calculated to produce assound and. trained mind in sound
 and trained body will have to be l achieved befereaour colleges may claim ] to fulfill their full mission
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 ] 3 tsIf boxing is such a good, all-round 1 exercise as you say, 7, asks a reader. I why do professional pugi1ists train
 for fights by running, walking, skip
 ping the rope, and playing various 1 games ?'' Because boxing is about as l near being an aII-round exercise as any, but there isn't any a1I-round 1 sport that exercises all the muscles
 and organs of the body. Besides. most
 of the running and walking and rope
 skipping of pugilists is for the pur- I pose of taking off weight. This re I ducing may weaken rather. thar l strengthen them. but is made neces- ssafy by the terms of the match Box. Eers play various games because tal
 Rwork and no play makes. Jack duI
 boy, ,, and boxing is their trade IT training they must do a lot5sof spar | ring, and they naturally like achaz1ge