Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — The Secret of Exercising. [ARTICLE]

The Secret of Exercising.

The secret of muscular recuperation is in stopping when fatigue begins. He ■or she who is not the fresher in body and mind for the exercise taken has had an overdose of what in proper measure would have been a benefit. The gain in strength is shown and felt in the increasing ability to do more and more without exhaustion. The measure of success is not in the greatness of the feat accomplished but in the ease with which the exercise is indulged in, in the absence of exhaustion after it. There are occasions frequent enough in which people in the struggle of life are forced beyond their power of endurance, and there is no need to carry into the pursuit of recreation the fatigue which exacting work imposes. —Philadelphia Ledger. In most cases failures are not hopeless misfortunes, and, though ofteu bitter, nevertheless profitable experiences, even if the lesson be severe. But few people learn so effectually what their capabilities are, or what “making one’s way” means as by experience, and of these ninety-nine out of every hundred will be benefited in a greater or less degree for the reproof—it depending very much upon how well the knowledge gained is applied.