Varied Exercise and Health

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 5, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 14.

Varied Exercise and Health

VARIETY of exercise is healthful. Mr. Gladstone was noted for his outdoor life, and his enjoyment in felling trees in Hawarden Park. When asked the secret of his vigorous health at eighty-three, he replied: 'There

was once a road leading out of London, on which more horses died than on any other; and inquiry revealed the fact that it was perfectly level. Consequently the animals, in traveling over it, used only one set of muscles. Continuous employment of the same physical powers on the same lines results in physical exhaustion. It is varied and symmetrical exercise of the mind and all the muscles that lies at the base of any sound system of physical training.'