Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Popularity of Outdoor Life. [ARTICLE]

Popularity of Outdoor Life.

It is an encouraging sign for the health of the modern American that the popularity of outdoor life in this country seems to be increasing. The number and variety of sports and pastimes which allure to open-air exertion has grown greatly. Not very many years have elapsed since the time when tennis and football were unusual and golf and the bicycle were almost unknown. Yet the influence of these and other sports has been so strong in recent years that open-air life has come to be enjoyed for its own sake and apart from the amusement associated with it.