Life — July 13, 1911 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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More About Exercise HE chief uses of physical exer- cise are to improve our ability to eat, sleep and think. Espe- cially to think, because if we can't think to some purpose it makes no great difference whether we eat and sleep more or less. The original plan seems to have been that persons who could not think better than ordinary should get enough exercise to keep them healthy as a necessary incident to the acquisition of food. That plan has been consider- ably frustrated by the processes of civil- ization, which in our time insure to a considerable number of people due pro- vision of nourishment without any inci- dental exertion except that of diges- tion. These persons include many promi- nent supporters of exercise, and espe- cially of those forms of it that con- stitute “sport,” and they are abetted by large numbers of others who patron- ize exercise because it gives them pleas- ure, which indeed is one of its sec- ondary uses. Their enthusiasm about it goes read- ily to the length of a desire to see others take it, so that they pay money for admission to active games like polo and baseball, and greatly esteem and extol persons of exceptional han- diness and skill in such activities, without any regard to whether or not the said activities induce in such ex- celling practicers improved ability to think or even to sleep, eat or digest, which, as above disclosed, is the primary inducement to undergo the fatigues of exercise. Exercise is like money in that persons who are good at getting it are apt not to know when they have got enough, but it is very unlike money in that it is a cheering sight to observers to see per- getting plenty of exercise and rather a depressing sight to see them getting plenty of money. Perhaps that is because we are sure there is enough exercise to go around and are not so sure there is enough money. But then our whole procedure about exercise and sport is so fantastic that there is no use trying to excuse it in detail. No Doubt It Can Be Done HE Standard Oil Company which the Supreme Court dissolved is a “holding company.” Its problem now is to reorganize with- out letting go its hold. sons «LIP Bes Ballingford Back Life's Special Correspondent Returns from Abrocd on the “S.S. Olympic'’—Reports that Affairs in Europe are in a So-So-Condition—Domestic Topics, Including a Revolution (Note.—It will be remembered that Life's special correspondent, J. Bounder Balling ford, recently went abroad and conducted the Coronation to a successful conclusion. His trip was necessarily a hurried one, as, having brought on the Mexican War, he was anxious to return, BY J. BOUNDER BALLINGFORD, HAVE been closeted with Morgan all day. He is in a highly nervous state over some of the recent disclos- ures; wanted my help, but I told him plainly that he would have to shift for himself. I had to hurry away from London, although the King urged me to stay on and I received a cable from Nicholas almost insisting on my going on to St. Petersburg. Russia will have to wait for the present, until I clear up things at home. So far as I can learn from Taft, whom I visited yesterday, things look bad. “What's the use of trying to make this country any better?” he exclaimed. “No sooner do I straighten out one sit- Mrs. Casey (answering “boy wanted” Me WUDN'T TELL A 1 PERTIKLER, IF YE MAYBE LOIKE TO SEE 'M. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF ad): E FOR ANYTHING, BUT Of HOV ANOTHER BHOY THAT AIN’T SO He is now in this country as his latest article plainly indicates.) Lire uation than some new and unexpected dilemma rises.” “Don't worry,” I said. not to leave you again. time, what J. P.M?” “ We seem to have him on our hands.” “Um. He thinks he has ws on his hands.” “There may be something in Have you seen him recently?” “He sent for me the other day, but unfortunately I couldn't come. He inti- mated that he would tie up the whole country if we proceeded with these in- vestigations any further.” “We've got to do it,” I “Aren't we committed? “1 promise In the mean- are we going to do with that. exclaimed. Surely the SHURE! SOR, HE'S THAT TRUTHFUL comicbooks.com