Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-08-13
KEEPING FIT IS A DUTY
BY DIR, w. A. EVANS.

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q hollow muscle. The large intestines
nave a muscle coat. Flabby muscles
may mean constipation. The walls Of
tne abdomen are muscles. Flabby mus
cles may mean displaced stomach.
kidney. The eyes are held in
JUST the right position by muscles.
fIabny muscles may mean a squirt,
e~yestrafn, headache.
"A ilttle While every day spent in exer-
else of muscles is not too much trouble
to oneself. The effort should be to ex-
efcise those muscles not sufficiently
exercised In the days work. II play
IS not possible, a few minutes in the
patnroom before an open window is
nearly as good.
apparatus. The average man viii suc-
cSea II ne uses some form of exercise.
n daily stunt should be mild. Abou
every so often the task should be one
to develop the wind.
The next generation will keep Its
teeth and tonsils cleaner thar we have
KEEP ours. Maybe a quarter of a CEN
eury IRON now men will be clean
enough to go back to the common
drinking cup. When that time comes,
me Will be much more supple than
they now are. They will be able to
bend over without getting a crick in
the back. They will not crack in the
knees.
At 80 now we are a crippled up lot.
Some part of this disability is quite
unnecessary,
Wnen. a man bends his knee through
only 40 degrees and the remaining 100
degrees of latitude is left unused for a
few years, he finally gets so he hears a
Erittlng, creaking sound whenever he
end 1t more than 40 degrees. ANY
unusued machine-joint-will rust tight
In time.
The days. work keeps a certain area
In each joint properly smooth and
properly creased, but it does not keep
fit the areas of the joint outside the
used zone No man should be salts
fed to be bound in such narrow limits.
If it were his horse he would say that
1t was stove-up and with that would
get rid Of 1t.
Is it good Judgment to allow his
joints to lose all their suppleness just
because the work of the everyday only
requires a limited motion? Should he
extraordinary day? Will he deprive
himself of what that may bring hin?
His back, hip and knee are not like his
horse-to be sold and replaced.
1t Is not too much trouble to oneself
to combine with the muscle exercises
other exercises to keep the joints sup
PIE. For this purpose nothing is better
than the setting up exercise used IN
the army. The hand, elbows and
shoulders, unless diseased, will require
no attention. The backbone, the knees
and the feet are the joints in need.
A grown person can move his arms
around about as we'll as a baby can.
But where Is the grown person that
can put his toe in his mouth? Further,
when grown people can wiggle their
toes as a baby can. at that period Of
society fla feet will cease from trou-
bling.
To my mind the next 10 year will
see the development of a new CUSTOM.
The custom will not become universal
Perhaps 20 years later it will be as
nearly universal as was the noisy
Fourth custom five years ago.
The new custom will be taking the
trouble with oneself to have a physical
exam1i1atlon once a year or there
abouts. About every so often men will
a chemical and microscopical test
of their urines. Probably other forms
of laboratory tests will develop in the
meanwhile.
They will go to their dentists to have
their teeth examined; to the throat
mar for an examination of that organ:
the i%nternalist will examine the heart
and lungs n take the blood pressure.
This plan In no sense will be based
upon fear. 1t will have behind it the
same motive that impels a man to
brush his teeth, wash his face or care
for his hair.
The man who makes too much trou-
BILE for himself is a nuisance to him
self and everyone else. The man who
is too little trouble to himself is Of
fensive and sometimes spreads infec-
ton. The man Who is just enough
trouble to himself multiplies his days
n increases his efficiency.