Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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er of a singularly busy sort,so much so indeed, that he was knownamong his colleagues as Busy Burgess.He too, holds that the best of a man ismade manifest when the bodily powersare at their zenith. The Bishop believes a dietetic sin, is astruly a sin as those named in the Deca-logue. This thought he has voiced thus:The body, so we are taught, is thetemple of the Most High. Any-thing which makes for the degreda-tion of that temple must of necessitytherefore, be an offence against theAlmighty. And I can conceive ofnothing which tends to destroy thepowers and clog the functions of thebody more than gluttony and intem-perance. To eat unwisely—without re-gard of consequences—is, to my mind,a deliberate running counter to theexpressed desires of the Deity. These are no uncertain words, andwhen we bear in mind the thousandsof church members who inflict diseaseon themselves and their offspring byreason of their violation of the rules ofdietetic hygiene, we feel that they areindeed timely.
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The new sparking plug in the automobile is out of order. The old style sparking plug does not get out of order. Hes always ready for business* If you dont believe it, try for yourself 1 206 Love-Making—Old and New By Milton Watford IN the illustration opposite there is asplendid comparison of what mightbe termed the old and the newmethods of making love. On the onehand is the automobile, with all themodern appliances necesary for speedingover the country, and on the otherthere is the old farm horse bearing thehired man and his girl on his back.Maybe it is the farmers son, though itmakes but little difference. As willbe noted by the caption of the photo-graph, the original object was to com-pare the old and the new style ofsparking plugs. The sparking-plugof the automobile is out of order andthey are trying to restore it to workingorder. There can be no trouble of thiskind with the old style sparking plug.There is no danger of its getting out oforder. But the chief object of the phot

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