Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — What is Healthful Exercise? [ARTICLE]

What is Healthful Exercise?

This is a qutntk-a we to one • wdmUiy the doctor, “ought not to take viokst exercise. Exerdob, like ewerythingclM that is good should bo taken in moderation. That ie the objection to rowing end kindred sameementa They ere net healthful becenee carried to exoees. Hocaebeek riding ie good exercises so ie walking. But whatever tbe form es excexalee do not purtoe it to extrsanse.” There is a deal of eanee in whet the doctor ears. Needy ell the grtet pugilists, base beu and oarsmen, pedestrian*, athletes and men who are specially trained lor extraordinary feats oTpbyiieal sodoranoe, break down early. They exhaust their stock of vitality prematurely. It is the natural development that is the moot enduring. AV&at men need in every pursuit in life ie “staying powers,” tenacity, longevity and ercatas of moscular growth. Sudden apurta of strength impinge lightly upon either the economic or mot al results of fife. For this reason we may prudently accredit that role the beat which commands to os a moderate amount of physical exercise, and regular intervals as regards time and quality. Coasting, base ball, pedeetiianism are none of them necessarily unhealthy. On the contrary they are healthftil, and a delightful combination of recreation and physical development. Bnt bow few use them wisely aa tools for this purpose! The great majority indulge to excess. The excitement of the contest, the flense requirements of rivalry, and tbe potency of example, carry the entbuaiam to a high pitch, and tbe physical ftame is taxed to an injurious degree. - No sane person denies the value of mod. It is owential to life. It is possible to live without exercise; it is not possible to live without food. And yet if a man were to partake of food as he sometimes partakcb of exercise he would be accounted afeol; for, if lie fasted two or three days, and then gorged himself with all be could eat, he would be a speedy patient for the physician. And yet, in so doing, he would only tie stepping into e parallel niche with the man who takes rest and exercise in about that portion of time and intensity. The np-building of physicial manhood and womanhood is one of the greet privileges and duties of every human life. The future not only of individuals but of nations depends in large measure upon the wisdom of the rising and future generations in this respect. Natnra builds up by a slow but continuous process. The vegetation that springs up in a night is comparatively valueless. The wood of steady and uuinterupted growth has the best fibre. Exercise, rightly used, is an element of human physical development Wrongfully or immoderately used it is a bane. This ii the month when those troubled with a cough should go for a twenty-five cent l.ottle of Dr. Ball’s Cough Byrup end be cured at once.