YOU CAN HAVE
YOU all know that glorious fceling when you are to run a stiff race or play a hard gamę—that feeling of splendid physical fitness, of bcing cqual to any task. And you know how soon it wears off, and you feel fretty.
Weil, it is important to thc success-ful tackling of cvery sport that this glow of health and strength should bc kepi alight, so that you go into every gamę with the sensation of the poten-tial victor.
It is within the reach of practically every one of you to achieve such a State of physical fitness, and, at the same time, build up a body of beautiful rippling muscles capable of feats of strength.
Somc chaps who arc smali in build think that to be strong men is quitc outsidc their scope, and that they will nevcr be able to perform feats of great strength. Let mc tell you that this idea is all wrong. I have always known, and in recent years havc definitely proved it, that though you may possess smali bones, which nothing under the sun can incrcase in size, yet thc muscles and sinews around them can bc developed to such an extent that you can have bigger and stronger linibs than many a hcavier fellow.
Young fcllows who have envied the feats of others at throwing thc cricket bali, putting the weight, etc., and who havc hoped they might do likewise, have not been disappointed, but by consistent exercisc have becotne so well developed as to cxccl at such feats.
TH1NNESS : Its Cause and Cure.
Thinness is a condilion of which evcry young man is conscious, but it implics and involves morę than sociai disadvantagcs — it is definitely a con-dition of ill-hcalth, and therefore, one which must be overcoine.
Most thin folk are big caters, and appear to be always rcady for their food and thoroughly cnjoy it, but in spite of this they are actually in a statc of starvation — their food does them little good ; they are usually of the highly strung temperament, and al-though they seem to get along without any rcal illness, they lack that rcscrve of tnuscular and vital power that is so essential to good health.
Over-cating aggravates the conditior. of thinness, because, granted that the
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