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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Hints on Hygiene for Sportsmen. 
Any kind of unaccustomed exercise, such as 
shooting or hunting, is very apt to give rise to 
disagreeable consequences in the chest cavity, in 
the direction of fatigue and an often very per¬ 
sistent sensation of muscular ailing. These are 
consequent upon physical overstrain and lack of 
training. The first duty of those who aspire to 
shine in the field is, therefore, to undergo a 
course of preparation—training. 
Physical training of any kind may be sum¬ 
med up in the following propositions: 
Every day, short of undue fatigue, undertake 
a greater amount of exertion than the previous 
day until one is “in good form,” a state that 
varies according to the individual. 
Be able to breathe freely and do so. Never 
go beyond a quite slight shortness of breath. 
Never strain the heart, 
but let it work in ac¬ 
cordance with the ease 
of breathing. 
Avoid kinds of exer¬ 
cise that leave persistent 
congestion; stop the ex¬ 
ercise when the pulse 
rate exceeds 150 a 
minute. 
Shun all excesses at 
table, sleepless nights 
and intellectual over¬ 
strain. Remain reason¬ 
ably continent. 
Work on yesterday’s 
nourishment; prepare 
for immediate effort 
with the excitomotors 
of the moment. Never 
train fasting nor soon 
after a meal; wait two 
hours after the princi¬ 
pal meal. Never train 
at night. 
Sleep should be re¬ 
generative. It ought not 
to be heavy or restless or troubled. As a general 
rule, eight hours’ sleep is required. Regulate the 
training by the quality and the amount of sleep. 
Whenever training spoils the appetite, increases 
thirst and troubles sleep, it is injurious. What 
we must aim at is the slight fatigue that braces 
one up, steering clear of the excessive fatigue 
that prostrates and upsets. 
In short, we walk with the muscles, run with 
the lungs, gallop with the heart, keep up with 
the stomach and we arrive with the brain.” 
Muscular Training.—When the town dweller 
on a shooting excursion is obliged to trot over 
meadows, the anterior leg muscles soon get tired, 
even when he happens to be a good walker on 
level ground. 
The obligation under which he labors to 
Strongly contract his muscles in order to raise 
the toes clear of the clods of earth soon tires 
muscles unaccustomed to this particular form of 
exertion on the smooth streets, of towns. 
The effect of continuous exercise of any kind 
is to strengthen the muscles and to fortify the 
bones. The slight pains that are experienced 
m the muscles or tendons after unaccustomed 
and rather violent exercise are simply due to 
tiny structural lesions which soon clear up, hav¬ 
ing undergone quick repair owing to the neces¬ 
sity in which these muscles find themselves to 
cope with effects to which they are not accus¬ 
tomed. Walking, jumping and running must, 
therefore, be the object of methodical training 
on the part of every aspirant sportsman on the 
general principles formulated above. 
Respiratory 1 raining.—Few people know how 
to breathe properly, yet it is of the utmost im¬ 
portance to the sportsman. He must learn from 
the outset the immense importance of deep, ample 
breathing, as far as possible nasal; at any rate 
in inspiration. This deep, ample breathing is all 
the more important, seeing that it provides in 
great measure for the elimination of the waste 
products produced by effort. It is via the lungs 
that we get rid of the carbonic acid formed by 
the combustion of fatty substances, the water re¬ 
sulting from this transformation being eliminated 
amounts of more virulent toxins than usual, a 
trying burden. Hydrocarbons are vastly less 
toxic. On the other hand some of them, sugar 
in particular, can play the part of a waste pre¬ 
venter and so facilitate great muscular efforts. 
It follows that advantage attends the use of 
carbohydrates. Nevertheless, it is not open to 
question that the sportsman’s proper food con¬ 
sists of the various forms of albuminoids—meat, 
e ffS s > milk, fish. It is from these that the organ¬ 
ism derives its vigor and its power of endur¬ 
ance. It is thanks to them that the sportsman 
can at a pinch give the necessary fling. The 
ideal, in view of the drawbacks of a diet too 
exclusively nitrogenous, would be to temper its 
rigor by the ingestion of carefully selected car¬ 
bohydrates which, in small compass, represent 
a high degree of nutritive power — vegetables, 
purees, macaroni, puddings, etc. With regard 
to beverages it is diffi¬ 
cult to lay down any 
hard and fast rules as 
to quantity. Everyone 
who has done a hard 
day’s shooting or a long 
cycle ride is aware that 
the time comes when 
the longing for some¬ 
thing to drink becomes 
irresistible, and he is 
fain to gratify it. Nor 
would any advantage 
attend our allowing the 
organism to dehydrate 
itself further. The 
sportsman then will 
quench his thirst, but 
he should avoid taking 
anything except pure 
water, or very dilute 
red wine, or weak tea. 
Bitters, syrups, beer and 
milk are to be abso¬ 
lutely tabooed. 
Betty Welch. 
New York Legislature. 
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 6. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: Senator Fiero, of Catskill, has intro¬ 
duced a bill in the Legislature by request amend¬ 
ing the forest, fish and game law. It prohibits 
the taking or disturbing of fish, birds or game 
on any private park or private lands without 
permission of the owner of such private land 
or the owner or person having the exclusive 
right to hunt or fish in such private park in¬ 
stead of prohibiting such taking after notice as 
prescribed at present. The bill also provides that 
game shall not be taken in a public highway or 
on the lands of a railway or lands purchased or 
condemned by any municipality within the State 
for the purpose of supplying such municipality 
with water and protecting such water from pol¬ 
lution or contamination. 
Assemblyman Baumes, of Newburgh, has in¬ 
troduced a bill in relation to the placing of nets 
and the taking of fish from the Delaware and 
Hudson rivers and in Catskill Creek. 
Assemblyman Waring, of New Paltz, has in¬ 
troduced a bill prohibiting the hunting of rabbits 
and hares with ferrets, and making the posses¬ 
sion of ferrets presumptive evidence of their 
illegal use. ]? C. C. 
m the urine and even more in the form of sweat. 
WAITING FOR A SHOT. 
From a photograph by Helen Frazer. 
It is consequently easy to understand why stout 
persons so easily get puffed even on slight exer¬ 
tion. The fatty tissues are disintegrated, the 
blood is deprived of its oxygen, and as it does 
not occur to them to breathe in proportion, 
breathlessness results. Proper training, there- 
foie, soon gets rid of the breathlessness along 
with the surplus fat. 
Education of the Circulation.—The proper 
working of the heart is intimately associated 
with that of the lungs. It is hardly necessary 
to point out that the aspirant sportsman ought 
to be medically examined beforehand, so that he 
may cultivate his favorite pastime without fear 
of harm. 
Feeding.—The sportsman should select food 
substances capable of providing plenty of heat, 
thus enabling the muscles to withstand sustained 
effort. The average amount of food required 
by a healthy man is four ounces of albuminoids, 
twelve ounces of carbohydrates and three ounces 
of fat. Now, fats should be banished as far as 
possible from the dietary of the sportsman, not, 
indeed, that they do not give off plenty of heat! 
but their digestion is often rather laborious and 
they are apt to cause digestive disturbance. 
Their assimilation throws on the liver, already 
fatigued by having to dispose of increased 
