Imperial Valley press., 1917-01-06


everybody motors down to the beach
sits around all afternoon in the pub.
lie square eating peanuts and hearing
the band play, going home that night
to take the weekly bath in tub.
Just at present it wouldn't be bad
idea to have golf links as the point
of destiny in the auto ride. There is
really no excuse why people should
not golf now. If one belongs to a
country club, he can take the family
there for a game. He can go out to
the municipal links if he does not
belong to one of the clubs. And golt
is another remarkable exercise. There
is walking for the legs, and on every
stroke the arm, back, chest and leg
muscles are brought into play. An
other beauty of the game of golf is
that it is not violent or sustained
exercise. There is plenty of relaXa-
ton. Very few overdo on the links.
But supposing you don't play golf
and have very bitter prejudice
against it. Then why not have your
trip to and from a picnic in the noun
tains or somewhere else?
! A good idea would be to go back
to the day when you were young. 1t
wasn't so many years ago that father
used to hitch up old Dobbin, while
mother prepared cold lunch and the
whole family was off for day in
the woods or at some resort. In the
days of the horse there was always
some definite place to be reached. 1t
might be picnic grounds or just
gathering poppies in the hills. But
the ride was always to and from
somewhere.
And, going back to the childhood
days, it might be well to pick up
again some of the old kid sports
There are such games as one-o-cat
ring-around-t -the-rosy and baseball
with one of those soft indoor pills
Try this and see if you are as spry
as you used to be. Try this stuff
and see if the blood doesn't race more
freely and the shoulders go back in
At present one might go out to
see the damaged roads, leave the ma
chine at a safe place and hike along
the washouts. There is exercise in
throwing stones in the water and
walking.
Now, of course, Harry Williams
wouldn't do any Of these things. As
a matter of fact the baseball expert
owns a Ford and rides to work in the
"Dove Of Peace" every morning. Ii
is then that Harry takes most of his
exercise. While driving along in the
bumps, Williams presents a pretty
picture going through his daily calls
themes. He will be seen to violently
twist his head from side to side as if
looking for a motor cop or a chicken
In that way he exercises the mus
cles of the neck. He will twist his
body into innumerable attitudes, hav-
ing one muscle pulling against the
other. He will be pulling on the steer
ing wheel with one set of muscles
and pushing against it with another
His is the setting of one muscle against
the other. Sometimes it looks as il
his arms were shaking from cold OF
fright, but it's really muscle dance
While driving he will shake one lee
and then the other. So Williams take:
his daily exercise right in the car
By working one muscle against The
other he can take as much exercise
in one minutes as the ordinary person
exercising one muscle at time can dc
in two. And you can imagine hov
the Whittier folks stop in their field'
to watch the twisting scribe go by
It furnishes the chief topic of con
.versation in Whittier.
4 While talking on the subject o.
baseball the other night, Williams
suddenly grabbed the arms of hi