Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-29
Health Talks by DR.. Brady
when You Don't Feel In to II.

There may he souls who really and
truly like to hoe potatoes. weed onions battle.
bake sew. but they be strange anomalies.
When not canting for the moral cdihcation OF
IN" Younger generation. most OF us have as
little love for work have respect for
|. what tho copy books used to call honest la
hor The universal game Is to get along
with the least possible amount OF work. The
popular way Of playing tho game Is by dignity
Ing ones play game by referring to /, casu-
ally my work" Thus hear many play
crs telling OF working late at the of,ce"-an
Rrtlcss listener might suppose they had been
scrubbing the floor washing tho windows.
though actually they have been just puttcrng
at the books.
No other is constantly troubled
with that tired feeling the fellow who
won't work. There is precious little difference
between tho tired business man and the
genuine hobo mean to what ails the fcl-
low. The hobo fairly and sQuarcly rcpudiatcs
all work in all its ways and forms: the tired
business man tries to jolly himself that his
favorite game Is work.
There is time when who live with
work sorey need work tho very
moment when feel too tired TO undertake
the slightest exertion. The most serious mis-
take make about this is the msinterpre-
tation OF our own sensation when sedcnt
airy woman feels just tagged and
worn and weary At the end OF the days play
and yearns nightly to sink into a soft chair
even to retire too early to bed. then is
the time when some real muscular work will
do the most good. All. but il takes determine
ton and will power and faith in the rcstora-
tive value OF exercise to drive one to work at
such time. The universal impulse and prac-
tice is to chuck II and go with the deadly
sitting. Don't | know? No one hates work
more than do. yet I fancy few nonworkers
derive more benefit from bitter exercise year
after year than I do.
The notion that exercise must he made at
tractivc and enjoyable as in such games as
tennis. pitching horseshors hiking. pla wing
ball, bowling for tho old gcczcrs golf is
all rirht--anythinG that will persuade tho
chronic sitter to his muscles. Rut do
not imagine that because games good one
does not derive equal benefit from an cquiva =
lent amount OF muscular activity in the form
OF drab work Swinging the knotty
oak unpucstionably bcttcrs n mans health
just as much swinging the bat in game
OF ball. The great Drawback about pla wing
games for exercise is that II is seldom possible
for ono to get into game every day. II is
always possible to take exercise al home. no
matter what tho condition of the weather
the season the individual's time allow
ancc may be.
The sad which too many othcrw Use
Intelligent folks offer for ncg!ccting exercise
is that they haven't time. one might with
equal Justification so naked and plead moth :
Ing TO wear. The best reason why little boys
neglect To wash behind their is that they
haven't TIME Send me stamped. self ad-
dressed envelope and I'll undertake to prove
tn YOU that you're just bcEuiling yourself
about lack Of time. My way II takes only ff-
teen minutes, and when YOU have nothing on.