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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    1C8 Some of these are little things^ and for that reason they are the easier to do; but in this business, as in many others, little things often turn the scale. Of two brothers, equally thin, equally over-active, as much alike as possible—if one early formed these simple habits of slow and thorough mastication, deep and full breathing, resting awhile after meals, carrying his body uniformly erect, and sleeping plentifully, and his brother all the while cared for none of these things, it is highly probable that these little attentions would, in a few years, tell very decidedly in favour of him who practised them, and gradually bring to him that greater breadth, depth, and serenity, and the accompanying greater weight of the broad, full, and hearty man. And what about the old people ? Take a person of sixty. You donT w^ant him to turn gymnast, surely. No; not to turn gymnast, but to set aside a small portion of each day for taking such body as he or she now has, and making the best of it. But how can that be done ? and is it practicable at all for a person sixty years old, or more ? Well, let us see what one, not merely sixty, but eighty, and more too, had to say on this point. Shortly after the death of the late William Cullen Bryant, the New York Eveninfj Post, of which he had long been editor, published in its semi-weekly issue of June 14th, 1878, the following letter :
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