Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-15
Continued from Yesterday

CONTINUED from Yesterday
1t is a trait of boyhood to sleep
we'll and often. Here we have an
executive who can, in the midst of
the hardest day at the office, re-
tire TO his private room and sleep
fifteen minutes then ge up, battle
his face with cold water, and once
more plunge into his work, re-
freshed and Refrigerated by the
short sleep. The boy again. Where
is there another man of the gov
ernor's class blessed with the ca
pacity to take such a dose of the
great restorer between battles, so
TO speak? What a tremendous as
set this little knack must be for
a man in a. country wide speaking
tour!
Once a year regularly Governor
Cox has a complete dental exam
nation, including X-ray pictures OF
all the teeth. on one occasion the
X-ray negative disclosed evidence
of infection or a silent" (symptom-
less) abscess about the root of
tooth. This infection was prompt
ly cleaned up by the dental surgeon,
prevention in the way of oral
hygiene is characteristic of the
mans high regard for health as an
asset. He made one remark which
struck me as a bit of wisdom which
few men possess. II have pretty
good machine and l have always
believed in taking good care of it.
A lot of men, in fact nearly every
man, will say something like that
but Governor Cox does it. One
wonders whether similar habit of
annual dental examination would
have made a difference in the con-
ditions which led up to the late Col.
Roosevelt's untimely end. l haven't
the slightest idea whether Col.
Roosevelt's accident was directly or
remotely associated with dental
infection, but / know only too
well, how disastrous the results of
silent or painless root infections
may be.
He Likes Cold Morning Baths.
1t has been the governors GUS
tom for years to indulge in cold
morning baths, followed by fric-
ton rubs. He describes this as
though it were an actual pleasure.
| regret this, of course, but | must
tell the whole truth. 1t seems so
un-boyish. A dip in the swimming
hole is plenty cold enough, and
fellow rarely takes such a dip
early in the morning, when the
body vitality-the circulation, the
temperature, the metabolism, or
combustion process-is at low ebb
To my mind, it is downright cour-
ageous. | can't say it has any ef-
feet on the governors health, how
ever. So far as ] can determine
there is nothing wrong with his
health. Therefore, the cold bath
habit appears to have done him no
harm, and possibly it has good
effect on morale, being in the ma
ture of discipline or self-punish-
ment. 1t is a wonderfully helpful
thing, in a moral sense, for a man
with the tobacco habit to prescribe
for himself one smokeless day in
each week and take his medicine
faithfully. Likewise, cold morn
ing bath may be the sort of nerve
tonic a man of Governor CoX's class
needs, if he needs a tonic. j re-
ferred a while ago to the phenom-
email capacity of the governors af-
ter breakfast pipe. Somehow, the
combination of the cold morning
bath and the ter-breakfast smoke
reminds me of a certain motorist
who speeds up as he approaches a
stop and then jams on the brakes
to hold the machine back.
NaynnnI Inv lady Nicotine.