The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-05-21

atlc about muscular ueVelOpnenl. IL
wholesome, healthy fad at the very
worst you can say about It. But j
much about the size and looks Of your
muscles after you are once fairly
developed. Don't keep the tape meas
ure especially on the job. to see each
day If your chest and biceps are a
little more like Stecker. And If you
take exercise at home 1t would be
better not To take them in front OF
the big looking glass, watching for
them to get large and prominent un-
baseballs concealed under your skin,
in various ports of your body. Get
all that kind of stuff out of your head,
because the chances are that you
will be disappointed anyway, and that
your build is one that will never show
the bunchy type of muscles to any
extent, no matter how perfect your
condition is. skinny" Shaner is slen-
der because he has high bones, and
because his muscles are of the long
type and he might kill himself with
exercise, in weight-lifting or other
strenuous work. without ever begin
ming to look like the Farnese Her
culcs. The chances are that skinny"
would make crack long.distance
runner and enjoy his most robust
health. while yet remaining true to
his nickname.
on the other hand, you will prob
ably find shorty" Jones well de-
veloped. with bunchy muscles, if he
only plays tennis, The reason Is be-
cause his type is based on n stocky
frame, possibly with heavier bones,
with arms and legs comparatively
short and therefore with short mus
clcs, so that when he doubles his
arms his bceps roll up in great
fashion. Wonderful arm: Looks inn
mense in photograph,-but the
chances are that he is no stronger
than any other equally trained man
with longer limbs and a smooth, in
conspicuous development. This smooth
natural development is found in the
most successful athletes and is the
thing to work for.
Internal Machinery.
| will admit that there was n time
when | took great deal of interest
in the tape measure, watching my
chest expansion and my calf, arm
and neck cirCumferences. But | !
soon came to understand that it was
not so much the muscles that should I
be interested in as the strength of
the internal machinery. Whatever |
real strength YOU have is internal !
If you want strength. it |
should be strength for the sake of
health. And it is this strength of
the internal machinery that means |
health. And that's why exercise is |
important, not merely to a boxer, or
any other athlete, but to every man,
woman and child. The only way you |
can get at those internal organs to
strengthen them is by means of mus
cles. Most people don't realize that |
For when you put your muscles into |
action YOU also call your heart, lungs. |
kidneys, liver and all the internal .
into action. Working the .
means exercise for these or
gans. and without at least salts /
factory amount of exercise you will |
not only lose strength, but you will |
lose in health. and you cannot help it,
The only thing that saves most peo-
pie is the fact that they get at
least little exercise every dag in
spite of themselves, especially in
walking, but also m dressing and
moving around in other ways. You
cannot talk. or wink or eat without
exercising some muscles. And if you
want TO know from experience the
value of exercise, just stay in bed for
4 month and see how weak and thin
YOU get. Exercise is the greatest
tonic in the world. Without it all
your vital organs lose tone, your cir
gets sluggish and your health
fails. strength is directly related
to health. Don't pay any attention
to anyone who tells you that he does
not want strength. but only health.
They so together
Strength Still Needed.
Every once in while some very
learned gentleman. usually with spec
tacles and a bald, shining roof. rs
imagine. breaks into print with some
advice about the harmfulness Of ex-
ercise and the dangers of athletics.
He tells you that what you need
today is brains, presumably like his
own. and that the day Of brute
strength has long since departed.
He is all right about the brute part