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New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

# 1is enjoyment in running ten or
fifteen times around l,000-foos
track three times week.
Walking seventy to eighty miles
day might very we'll be classified d
as violent exercise, but Edward
Payson Weston, then seventy-two.
made this record on his transconti-
mental hike in 1913.
Away back in 1876" said Wes-
ton, when some one expressed
amazement that man Of his age
should be capable Of such feat,
when ! was lunching with Sir John
Ashley and Edward Lawson in Lon.
don, Mr.. Lawson told Sir John that
if he kept me going on the ire
mendous walks was making il
would kill me. But here | am, and
am still walking.
II said then, and | say now, tina,
more men are killed by lack Of ex-
ercise than by it,"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
nglishwomen Active in Politics

monthly journal for working women
filed with matter that is of inter
est to them-matters of housing, Ia
hor policy, the work Of their own
women.
One OF the unique organizations
in England is in large measure the
fruit of DR.. Phillips's efforts-an in
dustrial body known as the Stand
ing Joint Committee Of Industrial
Women's Organizations. This is
made up of representatives from all
the women's labor organizations.
whether they belong to the Labor
party or not, organizations like the
Women's Trade Union League, the
Railway Women's Guild. the Asso-
citation Of Women Clerks and Secre-
taries. The purpose of the standing
joint committee is to watch over the
interests Of working women and 10
help carry out the principles Of the
Labor movement and the co5pera-
tive movement In so far as women
are specially concerned. 1t acts as
advisory body on women's questions
to the executive committee of the
Labor party. Several government
depa artments have recommended that
in the appointment Of working
women to various local committees
the standing joint committee should
be consulted, and the women that it
selects, consequently, serve on the
local boards for pensions. women's s
war employment, maternity care
and food control. The government
also asks the committee for nomina-
tons for various important govern
ment committees that concern labor
DR.. Phillips herself represents the
standing joint committee on the in
vestigation Of costa board. govern
ment organization, and on the gov
ernment trades committee
Here a little and there a little
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
HOB FITZSiMMONS wos
IL {orty-fve achen he fought
Johnson

violent exercise for twenty-seven
years, as happen to know. and yet
he died, like everybody else has to,
some time. But if he had happened
to belong to a gym and been taking
care of himself everybody would have
said it was because of the violent
exercise"
"Yes," Clipped in one of the brok-
ers. "And the worst thing about all
this is that it gets the women all ex-
cited. My wife looks me over every
time ] come home after q couple of
games as though she thought it was
the last time she'd see me alive. Al
ways asking me how | feel and if
my heart amt hurtin' me any and if
! don't have dizzy spells. Takes all
the joy out of the thing" he con-
cluded resentfully.
The discussion developed many
angles. but always reverted to just
two queries: At what age should 8
man quit exercise-so~called vio-
lent exercise, that is? And why fix
forty as the limit?
What Is Exercise?
Again, 1T seems to me, the bur
den of the problem is. What Is VIC.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Cures the Crouch

And perhaps the most benefcens
general effect of exercise is that it
reduces irritability and excitablitv
among those who practice it--that is
70 say, it cures grouches."
So that the thing seems to reduce
itself to this: II you have been in
the habit of taking vigorous exercise
the fact that you are forty does noa
bar you from continued indulgence
in it. 1t may be advisable to refrain
from excessive competitive games
which cause exhaustion, but you are
not a has-been yet by any means.
Adapting an old phrase, Time has
not cropt all the roses" although
some of them may be slightly with
cred, and the hour of despair is NOT
yet
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

is the history OF the efforts Of
women in another field that have
just come to fruition. In May of
this year statute was passed by
Oxford University that admitted
women to matriculation and degrees
From now on women will be on an
equal footing with men. Women
have been students at Oxford for
forty years, but always on suffrage,
never officially regarded. Now they
are members of the university, with
the rights and privileges and i'm
munities" accruing thereto.
On the streets of Oxford are the
new caps and gowns, for since they
are Oxford students in full measure
the women must now wear academi-
cal dress. The soft. square cap, a
iaunty little thing, differing alto
gether from the traditional mortar
board, is triumph of scholastic mil
linery, and the short, trim, tailored
gown, free from the wide, flowing,
dust catching folds of the usual gar
ment, is most becoming. In their
enthusiasm at being permitted to re-
veal IN dress that they were no
longer outsiders. some of the women
students erred on the side of feryor.
The cap and gown began TO appear
at the theater, in the tea shops, even
at football games.
The ceremony where the degree
was conferred was an impressive
one, and to several Of the women
who were admitted to the masters
degree 1t represents the elimination
Of nearly half century Of unre-
mitting labor.
Miss Annie NJ. A. Fl. Rogers,
lecturer for the Oxford Home Stu
dents and secretary for the Asso-
citation for Promoting the Educa-
ton Of Women at Oxford; Mira. T.
Il. Green, of Sornerville College, and
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

Mrs. A. H. Johnson, the principal of
the Society of Oxford Home Stu
dents, were among those who re-
ceived the degree and who had
worked for it for forty years. They
began their efforts in 1879, and step
by step, "here q little and there a
little," have won for women their
present equality at Oxford. They
organized small societies Of women
students which have now grown
into the women's colleges. They pro-
vided lectures. one after another, a.
quickly as they could afford it. They
secured the admission Of women To
one lecture after another in the
university. One By one they per-
suaded the university authorities to
open the examinations to women.
Little by little the force of their
position was seen, and after par,
liamentary franchise had been
gained during the war the univer-
sity made no further objection to
the full membership of women. In
May it opened its degrees to women
and gave them the further right-a
right for which they had not asked
to sit on university committees
and take part in the government.
Another public work in which
women have succeeded is the man
agement Of hospitals. There are tive
hospitals in London controlled by
women--the Elijah Garrett An
derson Hospital, that serves the dis
trict on the north side Of the
Thames, and the South London Hos
pital for Women, that supplies the
southern side At the head Of the
South London Hospital is n remark.
able woman, Miss Katherine E
Luard, who served with great dis
tinction during the war.
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CONTINUED from page fve)


planning to students Of political
economy.
The Webbs were the founders of
the London School Of Economics.
They saw the need for q school that
would deal with social problems in
q scientific way, that would be a
center for research and investiga-
tion. The school began not only in
modest way, but almost in hum
BILE one There was diminutive
endowment and two diminutive
rooms. There we're no students at
first Though that did not hold true
for more than few weeksy, and, az
there was not enough money for
many lectures, the Webbs did the
teaching themselves.
To-day the London School of Eco
nomics is one of the outstanding
schools OF England. 1t is part of the
University Of London, with it's own
buildings and an income of $4,000
q year There are more than forty
lecturers and the students are more
than three thousand.
1T is our child" Mrs. Webb says
of 1t in tones of satisfaction.
OF the women In the Labor party
one of the most notable is the chief
woman officer, DR.. Marion Phillips.
Like Mrs. Webb, she is less inter-
ested in the immediate results Of
legislation than with the education
Of the public and the propagation of
more intelligent social ideas. Peace
and q decent economic system" are
the ends toward which she is work
ing. She is constantly occupied with
many kinds Of economic reform, and
she reaches the persons whom she
wishes TO help largely by means of
tne of the Labor party journals, The
Labnur Woman, Of which she is the
editor. This is an inexpensive
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
should the Man Who Is Fat and Forty Give Up Exercis<
Trainers and Physicians Answer in
the Negative Unless You Have
Some Physical Weakness

OF quick breathing during play, the
symptoms of cardiac dIlation. ex-
cessive perspiration and the func-
ton of the ventricles.
He has not won a game of hand
ball since the talk against men Of
forty exercising began.
Renewed Interest in Exercise
1t Is very probable that the crit
cs in this case have underestimated
the number of men who are inter
es.ed- Either because of the ex-
ample at Plattsburg, where men of
forty seeking commissions were set
to digging as Justify as anybody else
with no thought of the effect on
their hearts, or because of the gen.
eral athletic stimulus caused by the
war, there are literally thousands
OF men of maturity in New York
City alone who have developed a
fondness for vigorous outdoor rec
reations. Not content with stand
ing N front of the window at home
and raising the arms--not too sud-
denly-a stated number of times.
or lying on the floor and elevating
the legs to an angle of 80 degrees
so many times a minute, they have
gone in for tennis, handball, q naild
form Of boxing, little running and
Of course, golfng.
There are few mornings in Cen
tral Park which fail to reveal at
least one or more earnest citizens
oh, you can't imagine how ear
uest trying to retain their physical
and menta. efficiency by trotting
around the reservoir. Some of these
are brokers and business men, with
occasional in6ltrations cf the young
er clement merely trying to work
up an appetite.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
FRANK KRAMER, one of
the sir day bicycle racers
in the recent Madison Square
Garden meet, is past forty

lent exercise? Admittedly there
are some who would consider run
ming up a short fight of stairs vio-
lent exercise, whereas others would
think nothing of scaling the Jung
frau. Matthew Arnold ruptured a
blood vessel in his heart by jump
ing over a low fence, dying from
he injury, but know at least one
man seventy-three years old who
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Even in Cases of Heart Disease the
Health May Be Improved
by Careful Exercise

be forgotten occasion to keep me
from asking questions. Along with
other newspaper correspondents,
had been assigned to St. James dur
ing the Mayors stay there. and it
was when / waylaid him on the
road, in the hope Of obtaining a
good interview for the Sunday pa
per, that he invited me to go along
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Caynor the W alker

The late Mayor Gaynor was an
enthusiastic pedestrian, and I have
a vivid recollection indeed of &C.
companying him ON one Of his hikes.
1t was at St. James, l.. l., where he
had his summer home, and it was
his practice to go on walks when
he wanted to think things out. His
favorite route was through the
country for "a distance of ten miles,
and | have always suspected that he
took me along on that one never to
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
Many New Clubs

They are usually to be seen JUS
after dawn, when the number Of
orlookers is reduced to a minimum.
and they accept as sacrifcial and
penltential trials such remarks as
Go to it, kid Hey, there, fat,
where's the fre?" Who's chasin'
yuh, boz" made by early park en-
ployees, newsboys making short
cuts with their wares and face
tiously minded bird cops.
In New York City scores of or
CARNATIONS recently have sprung up
offering opportunities for exerciso
to business and professional men.
Some are in downtown office build
ings; others in hotels, and still
others, like the club to which the
broker with the lame ankle be
longed, are scattered about the up
per business sections of the city,
where they can be reached easily
by Office workers during the noon
hour or Immediately after work
and before dinner.
Admission to these places is on
the basis of certain fixed charge
an hour. For those with more
leisure t.ere are retreats in the
country, like Muldoon's, where the
applicant seeking rejuvenation is
subj ected to severe course covering
period of several weeks.
Among all these the newest assault
on the men at the middle post did
not escape attention. Many who We're
in the habit Of patting themselves
proudly on the chest and calling at
tention to their diminishing waistline
gave evidences of sudden physical re-
lapse and went shuffling in and out
of the locker rooms. But there were
others who were not discouraged sc
easily, and at one stadium in the
Fifties impromptu indignation meet
ings were held. At one of these ses-
sions were two members of Wal
Street banking houses, a builder who
had made money enough to afford
a little exercise in middle life, g
manager Of one Of the big hotels
and several luminsries of less mag.
ntude.
All were of the robust, active type
who found little satisfaction in cal.
isthenics or the other gentle drills
prescribed for the ailing and de.
crepit. And they were inclined TO be
peevlsh.
"As Good a. Ever"
"All this talk about the man O.
forty makes ms SICK" said the build
er, who Is Irish and has the strength
OF an OK "I'm a. good Is ! ever
was"
He giared around belIigerentiy
but whereas at other times such al
assertion would have been greeted
with insults and loud, deyisive guf
flaws, now there was silence.
"I'm even better In some things
than | was" went on the builder, en-
couraged by this show of acqui
egcence. There are any number oi
young fellows around here ten and
even fifteen years younger than me
who can't beat me playing, and you
know IT,"
Again there was silence. The
builder looked a tyihe bewildered
but struggled or manfully.
"And take Murphy there" hs
burst forth, jerking thumb at an
other members the company
don't take him out and beat hin
Ave singles any time want TO
Don't p
"Aw, chase yourself, you poor
fish," the man indicated as Murph,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
A Picture of Forty

Some bird only just strong
enough to push pen always is start
ing something like that" remarked
one of the others. His idea of a
man of forty is some one with only
one tooth left and carefully holding
his jaw with both hands to keep that
from falling out.
There was that judge-his name
was Malone, wasn't it?-who left
the bench the other LAY and dropped
dead. He hadn't been taking any
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
An Immediate Effect

AT one of the popular clubs In
NE upper business section Of New
iofk one Of the most enthusiastic
she persistent members was q part
aef IN a well known importing and
exporting firm, with large branch
o1.ces II Cuba. The = pre-
ierred by this business man was
aandoall. This is generally played
VIA q hard rubber ball, which is
Kept bouncing within bounds against
wall as long as possible, and de-
fe'ops INTO much heated language
xoen 1.-THE ball-falls outside the
hsaits.
on the day after the Arst article
sppeafed IN one of the newspapers
3sp'oFing violent exercise for men
a forty the broker entered the
Ashaoasl court llrnplng badly. One
" ais ankles was prominently en-.
sAsso IN bright yeiicw leather
'ssse~--althougH he was not know II
!" sa1e net with an aecident--and
was snrprisIngiy subdned all
s1'e'ho7n. he did not dispute hot
~ calling On tbs very gods to wit
ss l'e lnfamy, when his opponent
@.med closely contested point ;
va sesera' times his hand was seer
70 cautiously 10 his heart AZ il
"a" expected that important or
~sa 70 drop out on the floor.
Ai1ef The game----wnich he cur.
~''sa because of the strained ljga-
,AS"s M ms soot~~-he vas obse rved
= slose conference VIII another
hssniDsr of the club. physician and
WAIT specialist, on the ~lgniicancr
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
EDWARD PAYSON WES-
IL TON Waiked from coast
to coast IN 1913 at the 0ge of
Seventy-t,U0. He is still llUinQ

broke in, but his interruption lacked
heart, and he did not continue the
q ary,lp,ort
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
The Peak at Thirty-Gve

"a man begins 10 lose powers of
acquisitiveness after thirty-hve," he
once told ne. After that he works
With what he has. He finds more
and more difficulty learning new
ways and holds more and more to
the old
AS Mr. Shonts was himself well
past thrty-tive at that time his
good-natured compliance with the
dogma of increasing inutility was a
trihe discouraging.
Now comes still another attack
1t is that man at forty should gut
exercsing-thai Is, violently.
As to what constitutes violent ex-
ercise IS, of course. in dispute, but
the newest assault grew out of a
death that occurred recently at q
well known athletic club in New
York City The victim. brother of a
prominent Tammany leader. was
fond of exercise, but had neglected
it for more than year before the
end. On the day of his death he
went to the club. played few games
and, going into the rest room
dropped dead.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
To the Chimney Corner

As he was more than forty years
old there was at once much criti
cisnn Of men of middle age who re-
fused to concede that they were no
longer young. At forty. one OF
these writer's said, a man had bette
devote himself as much as possible
TO mental pursuits, ignoring entirely
the precepts of the school which in
sisted that by then mental acquisi-
tlveness was beyond mortal hope.
They avoided the fact that refrain
ing from physical pastimes for
twelve months and then suddenly
resumng them again might have
had something to do with the death
Of the brother Of the politician.
They simply asserted, in effect,
that being permitted to live at all,
men OF forty should be chastened
and subdued, recognizing in their
growing inhrmities the fact that if
'hey must play at all they should
DO i gently and not go around
tempting fate by hilarious conduct.
The tragic feature about this
newest assault is the effect it either
may have, or already has had, on
many men of maturity who have
developed fondness for games re-
curing certain amount of muscu-
ar extension. In New York City,
and In other communities where
The value Of exercise mas been en-
pnasized by some thinkers, there
Is surprising and growing num-
Der Of these.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

There is no need to recall the ex-
pedition in detail, but it may be
noted that his honor was never less
than two feet ahead all the time
that it was very hot and dusty
summer afternoon; that / asked few
questions and remembered the an
swers to none, and that | never
went on another walk with him.
The late Theodore Roosevelt loved
exercise, and his favorite diversion
was cutting down trees and saving
them up. He certainly did not admit
that forty was his limit for enjoying
this recreation, and he continued it
virtually up to the beginning Of his
last illness.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

OQMEBODY is always picking
- on the man who is forty.
First there was Osler, who,
probably unjustiy, was ac-
eused 10y many of holding to the
theory that males attaining the
fourth decade were beyond the
.sreShold Of usefulness and had best
anasthetized as the most mer-
slful way OF saving embarrassment
70 themselves and humiliation to So
c.ety. Many men q .orty and over
were loftly contemptuous Of this
dogma, but could not restrain feel
incs Of self lf-consciousness when some
stripping Of thirty-eight or nine ex-
pressed amazement over the laxity
Of the authorities in permitting them
to remain at large.
Next came the school which, while
waving the contention that man
should be chiovoformed at forty, in
sisted that he had passed the stage
Of mental acquisitiveness.' No less
a parsonage than the late Theodore
P. Shonts. president of the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company, in
dorsed this assumption.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26

the other vigorous games must give
them up when he is forty.
have Prescribed membership in the
Y. ID. c. A. snd other organizations
having gynnasiums TO at least 100
men Of maturity because they needed
exercise to cure them Of their Ills.
And some of these were suffering
from heart disease.
"One Of my patients is seventy
three years old He is the head Of
q large corporation. and has leak
ing valve in the heart. He took up
exercise at my direction, and now
one Of his stunts is to lie on his back
IL the gym and kick the medicine
Lall twenty-five times.
"Some men build up a certain
amount Of toler ance for physical ex-
ertion by practicing it, and to order
these to discontinue it for no other
reason than that they are forty Is
{ mistake
"One OF the chief causes of i'll
ness in middle life is faulty elimina-
tion--a failure to rid the body Of
waste products. Exercise stimulates
this elimination. The skin is one Of
the chief adjuncts to the kidneys, and
perspiration carries of many po,sons
injurious to the body This is as
true Of man of forty as Of Il
younger man, and, in fact. men at
forty who have been accustomed to
physical exercise of vigorous char
acter may be better equipped to con-
tinue that exercise than men Of
twenty-five who have failed TO estab-
! lish similar physical tolerapce.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-26
A Benefit TO Health

A Benefit TO Health
"The fact that a man Is forty IL
not the sole consideration. and he
may be able TO keep up his exercise
for ten years longer much better
than the man Of twenty-five. Ar
:hur Douglass Hirschfelder, OF
Johns Hopkins University, says Ia
his book, Diseases of the Heart and
Aorta. chapter 6, page 1913: In
dealing with normal individuals it
IS observed that the strengthening
Of every normal individual, the
training of every athlete or laborer,
consists in the habituation of the
body, and particularly Of the heart,
to gradually increasing muscular eff
fort and exercise in cer-
tain forms of serious heart disease
much relief has been produced by
the employment of judlclous exer-
cises even in individuals well past
the meridian of life"
AS the effect Of violent exercise
on the heart is the gist Of all the
arguments advanced by the critics
u the man of forty, the foregoing
70 OF great Importance, as is. too,
his further statement by my friend
the heart specialist:
"Formerly drugs and res. only
were prescribed for the reconstruc-
tion Of impaired organs. but IN the
latter part of the nineteenth ccn-
tury Lind, of Sweden, formulated
series of exercises which would
aid in restoring tone to diseased
hearts by increasing the flow OF
blood through the muscles and thus
influence the general metabolism-
Half of Us Muscles
LAS approximately one-halY OF
the body weight of the individual is
made up Of muscles. they play a
great part in body nutrition. When
exercised regularly they become de-
veloped and strengthened and as
they develop so do the other parts
of the body.
with insufficient exercise the
muscles deteriorate and the general
health and general resistance To dis
case Of the whole body weaken.
One who exercises regularly remains
in much better physical and mental
condition than he who leads a seden-
tary life. A very important infiu-
ence which exercise has on the blood
is the formation and preservation OF
its normal chemical constitution, and
in order that the blood may func-
tionate with the greatest dergee Of
efficiency it must flow TO various
parts of the body, obtain the SUBJ
stance necessary for its own compo-
sition and for the nourishment Of
the whole body. and to discharge its
full duty il must remove broken
down material from: the various
parts and carry them to the excre-
tory organs, the skin, kidneys, lungs,
etc
Cures the Crouch
And perhaps the most beneficen.
| general effect of exercise is that il