The Pedestrian's Record

4 the pedestrian's record. to death. These antiquated ideas are not fossilized yet: men exist who prescribe raw meat as food, and withhold drink from parched lips ; who reduce the body " to get off substance" far below its natural weight. By these means weakness not strength is induced ; the man so trained cannot win. At the Field office some years back we remember meeting A. A. Casamajor, the late well-known amateur sculler, who at the time looked thin and too highly trained ; his condition, he remarked, was certainly the result of hard work, that he was in perfect health, and the only way to keep the body free from disease, and in strength, was to adopt the system he pursued, which consisted in adopting a diet prescribed for men in training and taking severe exercise daily. What is condition, he remarked, but the healthiest stateof bodily development ? Such, no doubt, is the case ; but the human body, the harp of a thousand chords, cannot with impunity always be strung to concert pitch. The harp strings must be loosened sometimes, or they would elongate or break, when false notes or no notes would result upon digital manipulation. The same remark applies to the athlete; perpetual strain will snap his system somewhere, relaxation must succeed exertion, prolonged rest exhaustion. The body prepared for the fight can withstand much, but never can be brought to the perfection that could for an in­ definite period bear the oft and repeated punishment. Est modus in rebus. Thus far you may go, but no