Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1911 — BEST FORM OF EXERCISING [ARTICLE]

BEST FORM OF EXERCISING

Bwimming Develops Body as Nothing Else Will, Says Medical Member of Athletic Club. One of the medical men members of the Baltimore Athletic club, who is very prominent in aquatic circles, gives the following account on why we should*know how to swim: It is only a matter of time when we all come to realize that to keep our bodies in good condition we. have to exercise. The body, a very complicated structure, is kept alive by two simple processes: First, by taking in nourishment to supply the tissues of which it is composed, and second, by collecting the waste material and poisonous matter, the product of the tis-

sues’ activity, and carrying this to the excretory organs to be sent out of the body.. The first process we seldom have trouble in doing. Unfortunately, most of us take too much nourishment, but the latter process is easier interfered with; the poisonous material, if not gotten rid of properly by the skin, kidneys, bowels, and lungs, will, in a course of time, injure the tissues. This being the commonest cause of indigestion, headache and often more severe illness, even going so far as to harden the walls of the blood vessels, prematurely making old men of us. We, being not as old as our age, but as old as our arteries, or blood vegsels, is very true; many a man at 60 years is really younger than some men at 30 years. Exercise is the means that stimulates the sluggish excretory organs, thereby preventing lots of ailment. We haven’t a better way of exercising in the club than by swimming. It would be surprising to know .the number of men in the club who cannot swim, because they have not tried, most thinking it a very difficult thing to do, when it is an extremely simple thing, principally a matter of confidence. Even if one does not swim for exercise he should learn as a matter of precaution against accident How many of us have lost some relative or friend because they did not know how to swim? We, who live in this part of the country, who use the open waters in* the summer time, should especially know, for the fool is always with us, and you can never tell when one of them will be the cause of making you swim to save your life.