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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    times. He would skirmish around the apartment after all fashions, and once he told me even “ under the table.” Break- fast followed, then a walk down town; and then he was in the best of spirits for the writing of his editorial article for that day. * * * * ^ ♦ He was a constant student. His daily leading editorial constituted, and was for many years, the Evening Post. Sometimes he would not get it written until one o’clock. “ Can’t I have it earlier ? ” I asked him one day. “ Why not write it the evening before ? ” “ Ah,” he replied, “ if I should empty out the keg in that way, it would soon be exhausted.” He wanted his evenings for study. “ Well, then, can’t you get down earlier in the morning ?” He said, “ Oh yes.” A few months afterwards he exclaimed, with reference to the change : “ I like it. J go through my gymnastics, walk all the way down, and when I get here I feel like work. I like it.” Mr. Boggs also tells us that Mr. Bryant’s sight and hearing were scarcely impaired even up to his death. How remarkable these facts seem ! Here a man, known to the whole civilized world, says at seventy-seven that he has reached a pretty ad- vanced period of life without the usual infirmities of old age, and with his strength, activity, and bodily faculties generally in pretty good preserva- tion.” Wouldn’t most of us like to do that ? Are there not men who would promptly give millions, not “ for an inch of time,” but to be able to reach seventy-seven, and to say of themselves what Mr. Bryant could say of himself at that age ? Nor at
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