How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    movement, thougli for weeks lie once lay at death^s door, and tliough he was born in 1804. James Russell Lowell—sturdy, broad, and ruddy—is said to never ride when he can walk, and he is neaily sixty. Gladstone’s reputation as an axeman among the Hawarden oaks has reached our shores. In- deed, it is doubtful if there are many better/e//ers of his age in Europe, and he was born in 1809. Mr. M. H. Beebee, the present senior tutor at Cambridge University in England, who rowed at number two in the “ ’Varsity ” eight against Ox- ford in ’65, not only took the very highest univer- sity honour—a double-first—but a much higher double-first than even Gladstone had taken years before. The fencing, duelling, and hard riding of Bismarck’s youth do not seem to have perceptibly dimmed his intellect, or to have unfitted it for enormous and very important work in later life. And while the in-door woi’k equalizes the strength, and takes care of the arms and chest, the hour’s constitutional ” daily out of doors has an especial advantage, in that it insures at least that much out-of-door life and air. Dr. Mitchell says, “ When exposure to out-of-door air is associated with a fair share of physical exer- tion, it is an immense safeguard against the ills of anxiety and too much brain-work. I presume that very few of our generals could have gone
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