Physical culture . ea week; on Saturdays especially. Manymen after taking a bath, walk back homebarefooted on the snow with the ther-mometer below zero. In every villagethere are about half dozen centenarianswho owe their long life to merely simpleliving. Those people are very fond ofdifferent athletic games, such as boxingand wrestling in winter and base-balland <lancing in the open air in boxing they follow strict rules. Theynever use gloves. Wrestling is very much admired. Theopposing wrestlers get a good body holdfrom the start and then try to throwtheir opponents to the groun
Physical culture . ea week; on Saturdays especially. Manymen after taking a bath, walk back homebarefooted on the snow with the ther-mometer below zero. In every villagethere are about half dozen centenarianswho owe their long life to merely simpleliving. Those people are very fond ofdifferent athletic games, such as boxingand wrestling in winter and base-balland <lancing in the open air in boxing they follow strict rules. Theynever use gloves. Wrestling is very much admired. Theopposing wrestlers get a good body holdfrom the start and then try to throwtheir opponents to the ground. I haveheard seemingly educated men, who tryto make me believe that Russians eattallow candles, and drink machine oilfor their complexion. Such wild rumorsare very funny. The Russians as theywere when I saw them, were clean,healthy people. The trouble with theRussians is the same as with other na-tionalities; they crowd in cities wherethey drink and eat to excess, and thusdemoralize and degenerate. Paul Confession of a DivorcedMan By Horace Kingsley Brief Synopsis of Previous Installments.—The author of this story be-came very much enamored with Grace Winston, a young woman in his hometown. He learned that she was engaged to another man and he decided to go toNew York City. After being there for about a year he met a young actress whoattracted him. Some information was given to him, about her that was not toher advantage. He tried to destroy her influence over him and concluded tobreak the acquaintance with her, but was unable to do so. She finally convincedhim that the statements he had heard regarding her were false. A characterwhom the author calls Slim Jim plots to injure him in his employers Mr. Perkins, who is in the same office and boards in the same house becomesangered at him. Because of Perkins attitude the author examines his booksTire AiiTHnp an^ fin^s there evidence of his dishonesty. Perkins is arrested, but vows that THE AUlriUK ]-,e w]\\ ha
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