If there is any virtue in advertisements-and a journalist should be
the last person to say that there is not-the American nation is
rapidly reaching a state of physical efficiency of which the world
has probably not seen the like since Sparta. In all the American
newspapers and all the American monthlies are innumerable
illustrated announcements of "physical-culture specialists," who
guarantee to make all the organs of the body perform their duties
with the mighty precision of a 60 h.p. motor-car that never breaks
down. I saw a book the other day written by one of these
specialists, to show how perfect health could be attained by
devoting a quarter of an hour a day to certain exercises. The
advertisements multiply and increase in size. They cost a great
deal of money. Therefore they must bring in a great deal of
business. Therefore vast numbers of people must be worried about
the non-efficiency of their bodies, and on the way to achieve
efficiency. In our more modest British fashion, we have the same
phenomenon in England. And it is growing. Our muscles are growing
also. Surprise a man in his bedroom of a morning, and you will find
him lying on his back on the floor, or standing on his head, or
whirling clubs, in pursuit of physical efficiency.
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