The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-22
WHY is age?

W ny Is age
1t isn't so much a matter Of years
as it Is n state of mind and the e.
forts man makes to keep hims elf
physically fit. once out of college
and into the routine of business the
average man Iinds himself slipping;
abefore he realizes IL he is in posses
TOO generous for one of his archi-
| teCtural lines and he faces the fact
| the physically he Is old beyond his
| years. Then what to do?
The Tulsa business and profess
sional man goes to the Y. NJ. G. "A.
gymnasium. AT least some of them
do. Chance onlookers IN the balcony
OF the gym during the noon hour or
| between $50 and I o'clock IN The
evening would see the faces of a good
many men well known in Tulsa civic
and business life among the members
/ OF the class. with the aid Of volley
/ ball and caiisthenlcs the Tuba busl-
ness and professional man is max ing
| himself so physically capable that at
| 40 or As he is in his prime instead of
allowing himself 10 be classed as
I middle-aged.
why is II that the majority of men,
after they have entered business,
allow themselves to slip back physi-
cally, to become lax in exercise? II.
| Il. Ebel. physical director at the y.
! NJ. G. 4. was asked this question the
other day.
After Thirty Its Work.
During high school and college
days exercise is a form of fun" said
| Elbel. ITO excel in football or games
| is to make oneself more or less Of n
| hero. Afterwards, when he has gone
/ into business he is to busy to realize
! nd Nra nf
/ it up. Few men include it in their
daily program-there is no time for
I II. The married man feels that he Is
| being selfish IL he depriVos his family
/ Of the time that II takes to exercise
every day. instead of looking AZ 1t
as a necessity and obligation to
them.
1T isn't alone the man OF 40 or
! so who let's himself ship Its the
young man Of IS or 40 as well. Hair
an hour OF strenuous exercise a day
and the proper care in eating wi ]
keep The average man physically fit
OF course one can lay down no cer-
/ tain set OF rules, for exercise has TO
! be taken with due regard Tor man $
physical condition and no two men
are physically just alike The trouble
with most men is that they are IN
! clined to be lazy and too sclt-lndul-
gent. II a man could nave ms eNer-
else fed to him like pills, so that II
would cost him no physical eNer-
tion, that would be just what he'd
| like. But TO take really vigorous
! exercise regularly--that Is quiee an
Other matter!
Last night a man about so years
old who Is very we'll known here in
Tulsa came into the office. lie was
! too fat, he said and he wanted TO
reduce. But he wanted to do II with
out Interferingwith the eating, ana
he wanted only light exercise. 80
there YOU are! In old times physical
directors used to hang out signs Re
duce! Guarantee to make you th.n
and then they concentrated on the
muscles without paying attention 20
| the vital organs az we'll That's the
reason that physical culturists used
to die at 36 and 81. Now the trend
OF physical education Is iowa d dl
Iall-round development and when the
muscles are trained the heart ana
ilungs are trained, too, to take care
| OF them
Athletes soon $50 Stale
DO men who have had athletic
records in college "go to seed more
| quickly than those who have not
Elbel was asked.
yes, I believe that they do, for
this reason. The organs have neen
highly developed 10 take care OF hiSh
developed muscles. and IL the ia N
ing that caused that developmyh M
was kept up, there would oe
healthy normal condition, But when
| n i.nit both organs and muscles
quickly degenerate from dlsusa, /
know OF a number Of men who have
been athletes la their younger dsya
and who have let themselves grow
middle aged too quickly because 'hey