Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — Edison and Ericsson. [ARTICLE]

Edison and Ericsson.

Mr. William Blaikie, author of “How «» Get Strong,” lectured recently on '‘Common Sense Exercise, for Men and Women.” He said everybody should take proper exercise. He contrasted Thomas A. Edison, the electrical inventor, to show the importance of common sense exercise as a means of securing a long, happy and useful life. He said that Edison at the age of 42 was an old and deaf man, while Ericsson, at the age of 85, was still in the prime of manly strength and health. Edison neglected systematic exercise, while Ericsson had all through his long life adopted systematic exercise. He rose at 7a. m. and went to his gymnasium in his attic, and in other ways cared for himself, and consequently, instead of being a rhenmatic old man, he at 84 made an exhibit of hia strength, in which, taking hold of one end of a rope, he ontpullled two vigorous young men.