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

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    After breakfast I occupy myself for awhile with my studies, aud then, when in town, I w^alk down to the office of the Evening Post, nearly three miles distant, and, after about three hours, return, always walking, whatever be the weather or the state of the streets. In the country, I am engaged in my literary tasks till a feeling of weariness drives me out into the open air, and I go upon my farm or into the garden and prune the fruit-trees, or perform some other work about them which they need, and then go back to my books. I do not often dvive out, preferring to walk. *!(!*♦*♦ I am, sir, truly yours, W. C. Bri'ant. The same paper also contained the following : EEMINISCENCES OP A FOEMER BUSINESS ASSOCIATE. Mr. William C. Boggs, avho knew Mr. Bryant intimately for many years, has given the following reminiscences to a representative of the Evening Post: Si: * * * * * During the forty years that I have known him, Mr. Bryant has never been ill—never been confined to his bed, except on the occasion of his last accident. His health has always been good. Mr. Bryant was a great walker. In earlier years he would think nothing of walking to Paterson Falls and back, with Alfred Pell and James Lawson, after office hours. He always walked from his home to his place of business, even in his eighty, fourth year. At first he wouldn’t ride in the elevator. He would never wait for it, if it w;is not ready for the ascent immediately on his arrival in the building. Of gymnastic ex- ercises he was very fond. Every morning, for half an hour, he would go through a series of evolutions on the backs of two chairs p’aced side by side. He would hang on the door of his bedroom, pulling himself up and down an indefinite number of
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