Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — Diversions That Benefit. [ARTICLE]

Diversions That Benefit.

In an address at the Royftl College of Medicine to students about to start out in practice for themselves, Dr. George Steele-Perkins of Edinburgh gave this advice: ‘•Also learn to play lawn tennis, golf, bridge, billiards,’ or whatever games tnost appeal to you, and among other things do not neglect the noble art of self-defense.” This advice Is as sound for the young man starting out as a lawyu or a broker or a business man. For every man needs some amusement to which he can turn in order to forget the worries of his working hours. No man Is ever too busy to play; an hour’s relaxation makes him work better. That is why Gladstone chopped down trees and studied Homer, why Wilson plays golf, why Charles Schwab plays bridge, why Cleveland went fishing, why Roosevelt rode, boxed, played handball; why the late J. P. Morgan was never too busy to devote an hour to talking art with some one who really knew. Such diversions keep a man frojn going stale. —Exchange.