HOW TO GET STRONG
his purpose in the evenings; or not at all. So, making no especial change in his diet, he took to walking; and soon began to average from three to five miles an evening; and at the best pace he could make. In the cold months he says that he often perspired so that small icicles would form on the ends of his hair. Asking if it did not come a little stiff sometimes, on stormy nights or when he was very tired; and whether he did not omit his exercise at such times; he said no; but, on the contrary, added two miles; which shows the timber the man was made of. On the eighteenth of June of the same year, just five months from the start, he weighed but two hundred and fifteen pounds; having actually taken off ninety pounds, and had so altered that his former clothes would not fit him at all. Since that time we have again seen him; and he said he was down to two hundred; and that he had taken to horseback-riding, as he was fond of that. He looked a large, strong, hearty man of about five feet ten; of rather phlegmatic temperament; but no one would ever think of him as a fat man.
Now here is a man well known to hundreds of the lawyers of the New York Bar; a living example of what a little energy and determination will accomplish for a person who sets about his task as if he meant to perform it.
A girl of fifteen or sixteen, and inclined to be fleshy, found that, by a good deal of horseback-riding daily; she lost twenty-five pounds in one year—so a physician familiar with her case informed us.
Dr. Schweninger's famous reduction of Bismarck by sixty pounds after he was seventy years old, will answer the question whether it is too late for an elderly person to begin. And the following experience of Roberts with
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