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luDuglu til ii and the waste taken away. Extreme fatigue is 

 the result. The s\ stem becomes clogged temixjiarily, which 

 a period of rest wdl lelieve by tne blood having time to catch 

 up in its work in carrying away waste and bringing food to 

 the overworked parts. Here is the line between youth and 

 old age. In youth e.xercise is spontaneous, but as people in- 

 crease in age they must exert a w'ill j)o\\er to continue to ex- 

 ercise unless their occuj)ation requires it. Unless they force 

 ilicmsel\e.-> to it the heart and the arteries become weak and 

 rtabby from the lack of tone which is brought about by exer- 

 cise and it soon becomes impossible to perform the feats of 

 youth. In fact they lose all interest or desire to take part in 

 any of the plays or spontaneous exercises of youth. Man\ 

 a man has found that when he was called upon for a little 

 more force than the ordinar}-. either through disease or in an 

 emergencv. he is found wanting and succumbs. It is well 

 known that a man with a strong vigorf)Us heart in i)neumonia. 

 other things being e(|ual. will have the best chance for recov- 

 ery. In fact the large percentage of deaths from pneumonia 

 are from this very fact, heart failure, when if the patient liad 

 taken good regular exercise during health his heart would 

 have been in shape to have brought him through. .\ man 

 mav become old while he is young in years. It all depends 

 niton the circulation of the blood and the metabolism. Tliat 

 i^ n|)on which side is the balance. By tone as referred to 

 ;ibo\e is meant the power to resist disease or to cope with an 

 extra call if the t'me ever comes when the demand is made. 

 The main business of life is to keep this tone as high and for 

 as long a time as possible ; i. e. to push our youth as far into 

 life as possible. People as they advance in age resort to all 

 means possible to avoid muscular activity and often deceive 

 themselves iti thinking that fresh air is a substitute for exer- 

 cise. Often a horse and carriage with a hired driver is a great 

 misfortune, for riding gives tlie minimum muscular activity. 

 People whose occupation requires exercise indoors receive 

 great benefit in out door air even if there is no great amount 



