The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-09

on an experience of eighteen years as a trainer of athletes and in build ing up run down and worn out b11si- ness and professional men He IS recognized as one of the worlds fore most authorities on physical culture and right Nving)
 A BACK YARD AND HEALTH
 Mir. Bolton Hall once wrote a book entitled .Three Acres and Liberty, which should be read by every city man ~who has an ambition to have a real home. Even the three acres however, are beyond the reach of most city dwe1lers ,and so. some day, intend to write book entitled Back Yard and Health Living in a steam-heated city apartment has It's conveniences, but also many draw backs, and not the least of the lat ter is that 1t does away with that breathing spot, the back yard, and abo1ishes that great co1Aserver of health and energy and builder of mus cle, the woodpile During my long experience as a physical culturist I have not discoVered 8. perfect exercise that, in itself, win develop all the mus. cles and organs of the body. In ex- ercise, as in everything else. variety is the spice of life. but wood-chop- ping and splitting and tree-felling come as near to being the ideal physd- cal activities ah any. The restoration of the back yard with it's wood-pile would add vastly to the health of city people. C0untry-bred boys may not appreciate the frequent sessions at the Wood-piIe, but, if they could but know it, the hours spent in yielding the axe afford an excellent foundation for fu- tltre health.
 Abraham Lincoln is affectfonately called the strail-splitter,'' but few re- aAze the significance of that solbI1- quet- Pictures and descriptions Of Lincoln as a young. man show that he had all the indications of being of a tuberculous tendency, and to his wood< splitting and his healthy out-of-door existence in his youth one may well attribute his survival to maturity and the vigor and energy which enabled him to lead his native land through the most troubled period of it's his tory. Col Roosevelt and Emperor William of Germany are 2 pair of ddstinguished ed z living statesmen who have found the axe weapon with which to combat disease and a ten- dency toward abdominal rotundtty.
 Stage people. strange to- say, are among the most devoted adhererts Olive FT-emstad, the famous prima donna, in recent interview attribut- ed her radiant health and energy to wood -choppfng. I could name a score Of prominent singers, actors, actresses and playwrights who are proficient
 
 preserving health. beauty and slen-
 derness of figure. Not long ago
 had the pleasure Of Introducing Mir.
 Roland B. MoIfneaux, tffe npfaywrigfnt,
 to my rural wood-piFe, and sent him
 away rejuvenated and rejoicing.
 Wood-choppfng, as have said be-
 fore, reduces the waist measurement
 while at the same time increasing chest measurerne and lung capacity.
 Performed in the open. 1t necessitates deep breathing of pure air. Tn con- nection with other exercises it brings about a welI-rounded development of the entire body There are no heaIth- fer men in the world than the 1uInb err men and this despite the fact that they often lead hard and irregllar and are often provided with 3. diet that would tax the digestion of an ostrich or William-goa MRS THOMAS A. EDISON
 I ON THE SUBJECT OF EATS In a recent interview Mrs. Thomas | A. Edison gave some dietetic advice, in the course of which she stated that she and her distinguished husband have derived great benefit from a die l tary scheme the main feature of which was the reduction of their daily food allowance to ten ounces per day each.
 Mrs. Edison is doubtless right in de-
 
 much. but it is qudte as true to assert that some of these same people eat too little. This sounds paradoxica-l. but i it isn't. The average city man, whose employment is Sedentary and mental more than manual is anaeInic or
 spale-blooded.' ?, Nearly all physicians
 are agreed that good, nutritious food in consid derab1e Quantities-far more than ten ounces per davis the best m edtcine for this condition. Yet this
 same average city man is nearly al- ways neurasthenic and a victim of auto -intoxication, and this condition 1 is due to a failure to digest food, which decomposes in the intestines and fills the system with poisons. Such being the case, less food would seem l to be indicated Millions of ATneri- | cans are in this unfortunate condition they cannot get well without assirn- Hating more food, and they are unable to digest the food they take. however little.
 The remedy is exercise, and lots of | 1t. in the open air. Given the right sort of physical activity. under proper lconditions, and enough of it, and any man or woman not suffering from a
 chronic disease may develop set of .innards'' that will digest nails" It is not how much fuel is put into the human engine, but how much is consumed, that counts The tsclink- ers'' cause the trouble. After many years experience in exericdsing and feeding run down people, have found the food requirements of individuals vary as widely as the sizes of their Lshoes. Ten ounces of food a day may keep one man in the pink of con
 dition and sepd another to an early grave. The first rule of dietetics
 seems to be that there isn't any. For
 the man who can't or won't exercise, however, 1t is perhaps better to eat less than more, since it is pleasanter | to die of starvation than from the lin gering diseases incident to aIto-intox- l ication.~ We must eat to exercise and exercise to eat.
 SUGGESTION IN THE
 CTIRE OFT IlTSEA SEE