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THE MERCHANT OR BUSINESS MAN.    15

is A No. t, his physical bank has collapsed and his bodily credit is ruined.

If this practical business man will only appiy his good sense to his physiąue he would no longer say "I have no time," but would take a few minutes at least in some exercise that would not reąuire him to leave his Office or change his attire. He can, by a few arm or leg motions, draw the blood from the brain, thereby resting it. He will find he can do without the artificial life to be gained from stimulants.

As a business venture, it will pay any man to esercise. The effort required to throw off the feeling of lassitude and dullness experienced by a busy tired man is greater than that which is needed to make him rise from his desk and exercise for only a few minutes. The throbbing temples, aching head, irritable condition, and flushed face are too well known; they are the unwelcome associates of the hard worker because he allows them to be. He suffers from “Americanitis he carries his business home, too much occupied to look after the rearing of his own children, and shoulders the responsibility of their education on others.

If the blood permeates the body when at rest twelve times in an hour, during which time it performs the duties incumbent upon it, and from fifteen to twenty times when the body is in motion, it follows that the quantity of secretion from the various organs is increased in proportion, conse-quentlv action is beneficial. Simple bodily exercise will do this. Brisk circulation animates the whole man. Exer-cise is the best stimulant in the world. Socrates well under-stood this. "I would have you know,” says he, “that neither in any other struggle nor in any kind of practical life will you get on worse bccause you have brought your body into a good condition. For the body is useful in all pursuits which men engage in, it is of great importance to