Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — PHYSICAL EXERCISE. [ARTICLE]

PHYSICAL EXERCISE.

Poorly cooked food often drive* mat to drink and women to suicide. “An Indiana man wants a divorce because his wife chews tobacco." Fine tut or plug? When It comes to keeping out of the penitentiary women are more successful than men. Buy your own home in the country, and become a perennial Instead of a hardy annual. Paris has a "ham and iron” fair, though ham and diamonds would be a more appropriate combination. A pastor says he wants to go to heaven by the quickest route. He is not, however, in a hurry to start. A Western man has the distinction of having survived the professional treatment of twenty-six physicians. It Is evident that the Grand Vizier of Morocco isn’t popular among his wives. Three of them tried to poison him.

A man was found wandering about Chicago In a dazed condition with $7,000 In his pocket. That’s enough to daze anybody. Everybody counts In a census. One doesn't have to be a baseball pitcher or a banker to have his name recorded In Uncle Sam’s big book. A celebrated oculist says that people seldom see things as they are. Particularly Is this true when they look at get-rlch-quick schemes. Legumlnotherapy, this alleged new science of rutabagas and things, can never hope to be popular unless It changes Its name to something easier. * " -■ It *eems to be the consensus of opinion among public men that Governor Hughes would make an excellent Supreme Court Justice in spite of his whiskers. According to a Chicago Judge, a woman has a right to bounce a rolling pin off her husband’s head. Does the same ruling apply in the case of a stove poker. A New England woman detective Is to marry a millionaire. Perhaps he think* In view of the attack* on wealth, now the fashion, that a detective will come handy in the family

The girls who take the domestic science courses at the Kansas Agricultural College have to make themselves a complete outfit, from underclothing to a silk dress, before they can take a degree. Most of their grandmothers had to do their own dressmaking without getting a diploma for doing it. But whether taught at home or In school, it is a useful thing for young women to learn—and It “1b fascinating work besides. Some Interesting statistics about the migratory habits of a porti<& of the human race have been collected by a great city gas company. It was found, for example, that in the course of thirty-two months 132 families moved into and out of one tenement building. During the same period a single apartment sheltered Twenty-five different families. Surely the philosophy of Poor Richard must be at fault, for in these cases “three removes” could not have been “as bad as a fire.” Artemus Ward said that a comic paper was no worse for having a joke In it now and then, and his words have ever since been quoted as embodying the gospel of wit and humor. The great form of American mirth is tne Joke. "It is to laugh —that’s our creed in a sentence. Misplaced capitals, awkward spelling, impossible grammar, Infinite incongruity of situation, endless word-play, grctesquery of action and character, heightened by pictures funny, these are the things that make us laugh. 'We are quick to catch the point of a cartoon, t 6 enjoy the exaggeration of a caricature. But to smile at the mockserious. to be amused by satire, Is a refinement as yet beyond us. Probably half in jest, Anthony J. Drexel, multi-millionaire of Philadelphia, expressed his consternation over the cost of a breakfast at one of New York’s splurge hotels. He ordered two eggs and a cup of coffee and the bill was $1.75. "A man’s wages for a day," he remarked—“not for me,” he added; “but for many just as good a man.” Of course, the many Just-as-good men don’t pay that price for eggs. They can buy a dozen for what Mr. Drexel paid for his coffee, and they can drink coffee a week on what Mr. Drexel paid for one of his eggs. Nevertheless, the price Mr. Drexel pays has its Influence upon what the common man pays. Under the cold storage system the great companies can hold-up the supply of eggs, and then, if they can sell the fresh eggs In New York to absurd hotels for a anonstrous price, they will add sometiling to the price the common man pays for storage eggs. The rich people of to-day have a chance to make a dent upon the price of living by assuming the virtue, if they have it not, of demanding their money’s worth, •nd refusing to give away their atone/ simply because it comes easy.

The virtues of abstlnnece are as open to the rich as to the poor. Where there Is a rapid growth In a country there is always a tendency to overestimate the population. This falls In with the plans of boomers and even gives pleasure to disinterested patriots. No doubt it is felt In Canada Just now, and the fever of It may have got Into the blood of Sydney Fisher, minister of agriculture, who predicts that the census of 1911 will show that the Dominion has 8,000,000 inhabitants. However this may be, there have been changes enough in the last ten years to make the development of Canada one of the most interesting studies of the time. During the latter part of the last century the growth of the country had been slow. The population, which was 4,324,810 in 1881, increased to 4,833,239 in 1891 and to 6,371,315 In 1901, making a small percentage for the twenty years. But though complete figures are lacking, it is certain that there has been an astonishing change since the beginning of the present century. The Province of Manitoba, which had a population of 255,211 in 1901, had increased to 365,688 in 1906, and in the same period Alberta had advanced from 72,841 to 185,412 and Saskatchewan from 91,460 to 257,763. In 1901 the number of people” from the United” States was placed at 127,899. The immigration from the United States alone in the year 1909 waß more than 90,000, and the current has been strong for several years. It is to be noted also that the newoomers from this country take capital with them, and the estimate of the Canadian immigration commissioner is" that these immigrants added to the wealth of western Canada at least $90,000,000. That the country will prove attractive from now on is highly probable, because It offers inviting farms to settlers, and Its fame as a wheat field is constantly increasing. The crop of last year was valued at $120,000,000, and each year sees a large increase in the acreage devoted to wheat cultivation.

English Physician Says It la Not Good for Office Workers. A distinguished London physician, Dr. Alexander Bryce, has started a discussion by asserting that office workers should not take exerciss after their day’s work. He says: “The root reason Is that though head work Is not exercise In the sense that It develops the body, It most decidedly Is exercise In that It quickly Induces ‘fag* and physical lassitude. So It Is almost pathetic for a man to expect any good to come from taking more exercise when the exercise involved In the day’s work has already tired him out “One takes It that young people have had sufficient outdoor exercise to reasonably develop their frames before beginning office work. Scr when once they have started In the office In earnest it is much better for them to realize at once that their days of hard physical strain are over and done with, and that henceforth they must confine these efforts to week-ends and holidays. They can follow this advice calmly enough, for it does not mean at all that they are going to deteriorate suddenly Into wrecks. “The body and system easily attune themselves to circumstances, even to over-civilized and consequently rather unnatural circumstances, and indoor head workers will soon find that a very decent state of health can be maintained with little or no apparent exercise. “For all people diving under the undoubted inconvenience of earning a livelihood a most excellent rule of thumb In regard to this much misunderstood question -of work and exercise Is the following: Never try to mix the two, and stop exercising at once If you do not find that it gives you real enjoyment. “And I need only add,” he concluded, “that the rational way home after a day’s work in the office is by train, tram or omnibus, not walking, and that the proper time for real exercise Is when no thought of work need iff-* tervene for at least forty-eight hours after the exercise has stopped.”