The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-08-13
KEEPING FIT rs "A DUTY
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hollow muscle. The large intestines
nave q muscle coat. Flabby muscles
may mean constipation. The walls Of
the abd'omon are muscles, Flabby mus
cles may mean displaced stomach.
movable kidney. The eyes are held In
Just the right position by muscles.
F1abby muscles may mean q BQuint,
eycstrain, headache.
A little while every day spent In exer-
else OF muscles Is not too much trouble
70 oneself. The effort should be to ex-
ercise those muscles not sufficiently
exercised In the days work If play
Is not possible, q few minutes In the
bathroom before an open window ig
nearly as good.
Exercise can be taken without any
apparatus The average man viii sue
coed II he uses some form OF exercise.
The daily stunt should be mild. About
every so often the task should be one
to develop the wind. -. IL
The next generation will keen its
teeth and tonsils cleaner than we have
Kept ours. Maybe a quarter of a CEN
fury from now men will be clean
enough TO go back to the common
drinking cup. When that time comes
men viii 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
At 80 now we are a crippled up lot.
some part of this, disability is quite
unnecessary asa r..
When a man bends his knee through
only 80 degrees and the remaining 100
degrees OF latitude IL left unused for a
few years, he finally gets so he hears 4
gritting, crealing sound whenever he
bends 1t more than 40 degrees. Any
unusued machine--joint--will rust tight
in time. ..
The days work keeps certain area
In each joint properly smooth and
properly creased, but IL does not keep
Mt the areas Of the joint outside the
used zone. No man should be salts
fed to DO bound In such narrow limits.
II 1t were his horse he would say that
1t was stove-up and with that would
get rid Of It. ~ ~.
In It good Judgment to allow his
joints to lose all their suppleness tust
because the work OF the everyday only
requires limited motion? Should he
not fight for a margin? How about the
extraordinary day? Will ne deprive
himself Of what that may bring him7
His back, hip and knee are not like his
horse--to be sold and replaced.
It 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 well 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 baby can, at that period OF
society Nat feet viii cease from trou-
bling. d
To my mind the next 10 years Will
see the development Of q new custom.
The custom win not become universal
in 10 years, but 1t will be widespread.
Perhaps 20 years later IL 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 physical
examination once q year or there
abouts. About every so often men will
have a chemical and microscopicaI 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
man for an examination of that organ;
the internalist will examine the heart
and lungs and take the blood pressure.
This plan in no sense will be based
upon fear. 1t will have behind 1t 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-
bic for himself is a nuisance to him.
self and everyone else. The man who
is too little trouble to himself Is Of
fenslve and sometimes spreads infec-
ton. The man who Is just enough
trouble to himself multiplies his days
and increases his efficiency.