all dictated, and very slowly and painstakingly at LITTLE 

 that, Hseckel writes with his own hand, and when JOURNEYS 

 the fit is on, he turns off manuscript at the rate of 

 from two to four thousand words a day. In writing 

 "The Riddle of the Universe," he took no exercise 

 save to go up on the roof, breathing deeply and pound- 

 ing his chest, varying the pounding by reaching his 

 arms above his head and stretching. However, after 

 a few weeks the villagers and visitors got to looking 

 for him with opera glasses; and he ceased going on 

 the roof, taking his calisthenics at the open window. 

 QThis exercise of reaching and stretching until you 

 lift yourself on tiptoe, he goes out of his way to recom- 

 mend in his book on "Development," wherein he 

 says, "There is a tendency as the years pass for the 

 internal organs to drop, but the individual who will 

 daily go through the motion of reaching for fruit on 

 limbs of trees that are above his head, standing on 

 tiptoe and slowly stretching up and up, occasionally 

 throwing his head back and looking straight up, will 

 of necessity breathe deeply, exercise the diaphragm 

 and I believe in most cases will ward off disease and 

 keep old age awaiting for long." 



Here is a little common-sense advice given by a phy- 

 sician who is also a great scientist. To try it will cost 

 you nothing no apparatus is required just throw 

 open the window and reach up and up and up, first 

 with one arm, then the other and then both arms. 

 "The person who does this daily for five minutes as a 

 habit, will probably have no need of a physician," 



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