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VOUN4 AARrt: 11 X lt;1 w i*\r^pAPtw Word* Coaforaa* Saltk RatoriM* T«k*fi Frvw tlM Cfc te«*©Tl««*iC««ICMr. Henry Litchford who r*pre*e»ts the Tiiuts-Herald in thi* city, Winds*!! excellent two column article to nia paper concerning our esteemed townsman, Smith Kobertson agent for the Cornell estate in Wisconsin. Coueemiugjns history our readers areconversant, hut concerning his youthfullnews,elasticity, muscle, and everything else. Mr, JAtchford gives a very interesting account which we dip from the licies-Herald as follows:THKOCtiH TilK AJUMKN’tyof childhood he was nursed and doctored by his mother, without any assistance from a professional physician. He rose with the sun aud went to bed with the dusk. Among the friends of his youth and manhood were Ezra r Cornell aud Henry W. Sage, who had been brought up on much the same regime. He has never used tobacco or uloohoi, though he I deads guilty to the possession of a bottle of blackberry wine, of which he consumes about a pint iu the course of five years. He is of e course.u I A ST KU Si! T EM !* K It A SC K M AS11 j and he regards tobacco as a more insidious I and formidable enemy of the human race t- than alcohol. Mr. liobcrtson is almost a t- J vegetarian, at. least he does not use more than a pound of meat in a mouth. I a sued him what lie had had to eat on the day of our meeting. H is break fast—taken like his two other meals iuvariably on the stroke of the clock—consisted of a dish of oatmeal. He crumbles two pieces of. toast.in.the oatmeal mixes up two generous tens {toon fuls of granulated sugar. and pours over ail a cup of fresh milk. He then has a half cup of weak coffee :lt;1 wjrlj a slice of bread, seldom using butter.s | KOK IUXNEK HE HAHabout au ounce of chicken, with whole meal bread, vegetables, rice pudding mud n small cup of weak tea. IC‘ For supper be enjoys above all !i things corn mush aud milk. He sleeps like a ‘ top and dot-s not know the meaning ot de-’•1 prcssion. Weather changes have no percept-~ ible effect upon his mind nr nerves, aud like 1S the companions nf I'lysses be ‘ever with a “ frolic welcome takes the thunder and the sun-L‘ shine. He could go out today aud walk ,v thirty miles without feeling unpleasantly fati-v gueii. On his way to his office in the morn-n itig he frequently runs races with the school l .dill tlreii...and ...... .. ..^ 1 W It ETII K It i! E WIX S 11! I I .OSES.J always gives peppermint drops to ._ the other competitors i Mr. _ Koberlsou . is a man live feet eight inches ill 0! height and weighing 1 H pounds, began systematic exercise with ten-pound dumb-bells aud a horizontal bar when t*f» years of age. He worked with this apparatus for about ten minutes a day, and walked from four to six miles a day regularly for a period »f three years. At the end of this time be found that his weight had increased from 140 to HR! pounds, bis chest measure had increased from thirty-six to forty inches, and all the other muscles of the body proportionately. At the present time.. UK WEICHS If in I'OCXUSami is S3 years of age, yet he can walk or ruu almost as easily aud * with apparently the same elasticity as fitly or sixty years ago. He took me out to the corridor ami began t* swing gnyly on a horizontal bar. lie raised his chin over the bar. kicked out his legs andrj in general disported himself as if preparing- I fora somersault. But that feat would havert—befen_difficult—aaJiierjjaxe. uulyabow.t.tlnee.inches of space between the bar and the ceiling., Mr. Kobe rt sou prides himself ou being a crank mi the subject of physical culture. He is a missionary of the gosjHd ofcorrect living., ) MR. !i IHES.TSON. I.IKK lIOETHK, believes that a physician is a man who pours : a lot of physic, ’about which he knows f nothing, into a human body of which lie knows (ess. He believes, in fact, that the » health of the race would be better if all the- m-idicaistiilt;]t ntsol the world could be switched- off’ to some useful occupation tike farming—- when the price of wheat is at the present s figure.
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Eau Claire Weekly Leader
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Sep 18, 1897
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