New Ulm review., 1922-03-01

muscular system most powerful, the vascu-
lar system unimpaired in healthy lndl-
viduals, the nervous system as quick IN
action as can be desired, and the will power
at its heght?, I think the years from twen-
ty-hve to thirty7fiye are the best for the
football player, provided his body has had
its rights up to that age.
Take such an unexcelled sport as skat-
ing Gee skating, mean). | think 1t can be
INDUCED in by boys Of six as we'll as by men
past sixty, provided they have practiced
it right along; by little girls as well as by
women nearing or past the menopause. a
known as Santa Claus skated every
winter until he died some years ago well up
in the sixties In Holland the home Of
skating, a man past seventy once won a well
contested race over the ordinary Dutch
course Of l6O Dutch yards. The we'll
known Eastern skater, G.. R. Philips, has
been able to carry prizes in public competi-
tions of speed and figure skating during a
period of thirty years (1867 to 1897 and
was then far from being played out. :
One of the best women skaters am ac
quainted with is well up in the ffties and she
does not think Of giving up, studying new
figures and trying new ponds every winter.
Skating stands far ahead of any other sport
IN my personal estimation. enjoy it now
as fully as did in 1873, when | studied rolls
and easy figures on my first pair Of Acme"
skates then new in the old country or in
December, 1862, when | first tried to
slide along on one little Skate | never feel
better in mind and body than during the
only too short skating season, when can
be young with the boys and fool them at
catching, hockey, or racing, or strike out
on an apparently endless sheet of ice as if
| intended to take up the fight through life
once more.
Take running for another example,
running in all forms, from the short sprints
required in the games of small boys to the
mile in four minutes and a half Of the athlete
in his prime, or to the twenty-five miles OF
Marathon runner. There are varias
tions and notifications for every body, and
it is sport that can be induldged in at al
most any time and place. You can run
ION the spot near an open window IN your
bedroom and work up sweat IN this way
that will satisfy any trainer. And how
you-please race from Bordeaux to Paris IN
France (about 80 miles), which took place
some years ago, a man Of seventy arrived
ninth, in good condition. An example well
known in Germany is Professor G.. Jaeger,
the originator of the so-called normal
clothing system" (all wooD. When he was
a little past fifty, he used to live about five
miles from Stuttgart, then the place OF his
business life. After adopting his all-woool
system he began to take up running-for
reasons not here to be discussed. At first ne
could hardly cover five hundred yards with
out being nearly exhausted and bathed IN
perspiration. He gradually improved, and
was soon able to run the five miles without
any trouble The running lat least as
much as the all-wool clothing system
changed him from stout" , short-winded
elderly gentleman" to well-formed, &C,
tive and lively man in his best years" :"
Try it. I am very fond Of it, and | am
sure it would work wonders in many a one
who thinks he is only fit for scrap iron.
Certainly, a man Of fifty must run different
ly from youth Of twenty, especially if he
has not practiced for long time. His vas
omotor apparatus answers slower; he must
not start with sprint and expect to keep
up ix-minutes-to-th -the-mile gait for miles