Evening star., 1925-06-14
George Gets His Exercise
For a Boz Hammock
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

A S Hendrick Hudson, the man
~ who invented the Am. immi-
II grafton problem. once said.
i The Battle is for the Strong,
and the Trouble with Ameri-
cans is they don't take enough ply.
sical exercise, but confine their ener.
gies to developing their bank rolls"
And what a far-sighted man he
was! That remark of his occurred
to me this Spring when George, that's
my husband, come home one night all
wore out from riding In the trolley,
the train, and our flivver, which he
had left in the garage acrost from
our depot.
He had a big bundle with him and
when he opened it up. what on earth
would he have in 1t only pair Of
boxing gloves. two dumbbells. Indian
clubs. and one of them machines you
hitch up onto the wall in your bed
room and then make daily effort to
pull the wall down with It.
There, he says, | got these down
to the Athletic goods department of
the Emporium, he says, and by heck
L am conner make use of EN-.
My heavens, Jennie, he says. I
am in about as good shape as a
stepped-on tomato, he says, by Jove,
am going to start right in and ex-
ercise scientific. he says. that is the
only way to get results, and you
ought to do the same.
Well, l could at once see where
there was a lot of truth In that OF
course I haf to do our housework
which with the amount of picking up
after Geo., cleaning up after Junior
and cleaning Junior up after, which
gets thrown In for good measure,
why that is not purely mental work.
But still and all, it don't seem to
take any weight off me, and 1 agreed
where exercising regular would be a
splendid idea.
So I says to Geo. fine and dandy
why not commence at once by just
running out to the corner and mail
ing a few letters for me?
And Geo. says don't be absurd
Jennie I'll take the flivver to the
corner, I am too tired to walk all that
way, and besides l was talking about
real exercise, the kind you do every
morning.
And just then the door bell rung
and who would it be only that Joe
Bush of the Hawthorne Club and his
wife.
We'll, well. George, how are you?
says Joe.
And Geo. says why hello Joe, I'm
simply fine, on account / am taking
regular exercise now, made up my
mind there is nothing like It, makes
YOU feel like a million dollars, old
man, that and the old cold shower,
eh?
And Joe says by jove I gotter
commence doing the same thing, he
says, and begun wigwagging his arms
TO show how strong the buttons was
sewed onto his vest, or something.
And Geo. says you sure ought to, Joe,
II don't pay man to leave hisself go.
Well, | personally myself believe in
going after things seriously and find
ing out all about them in advance in
stead of doing them by ear.
y
Tor a sample. when l go to make
a cake / read cook book, il /
was conner commit a murder I would
read a detective story, If ! was mere
ly out for a new hat | would read
Coos. check book. And then. being
real careful to forget what them liter
ary vols. had said, I would go ahead
and perform as I had already planned
to in the first place.
So acting on this great principle
when l went out the next morning to
recite my daily poem about butter
eggs and biscuits to the grocery man,
I also stopped by stand and bought
me a book called Physical Athletics
and took it home with me in all inno-
cence.
There was a scene on what ] took
to be the see-shore, where a group of
girls was apparently hopping out the
way of the crabs and Of the pebbles,
which they should of had better sense
in the first place than TO come down
there without any shoes or stockings