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Introduction by Author
Enjoy Life to the Fullest with Outdoor Sports and Games
Illustrated eBook Full of Outdoor Sports and Camping Ideas!
Dear Friend,
Suppose you should wake up Christmas morning and find yourself
to be the owner of a bicycle. It is a brand-new wheel and
everything is in perfect working order.
The bearings are well oiled, the nickel is bright and shiny
and it is all tuned up and ready for use. If you are a careful,
sensible boy you can have fun with it for a long time until
finally, like the "One Hoss Shay" in the poem, it wears out
and goes to pieces all at once.
On the other hand, if you are careless or indifferent or lazy
you may allow the machine to get out of order or to become
rusty from disuse, or perhaps when a nut works loose you
neglect it and have a breakdown on the road, or you may forget
to oil the bearings and in a short time they begin to squeak
and wear.
If you are another kind of a boy, you may be careful enough
about oiling and cleaning the wheel, but you may also be
reckless and head—strong and will jump over curbstones and
gutters or ride it over rough roads at a dangerous rate of
speed, and in this way shorten its life by abuse just as the
careless boy may by neglect.
It is just so with the human body which, after all, is a
machine too, and, more than that, it is the most wonderful
and perfect machine in the world. With care it should last
many years. With abuse or neglect it may very soon wear out.
The boy who neglects his health is like the boy who allows
the bearings on his wheel to become dry or the metal parts
rusty. The chief difference is that when the bicycle wears
out or breaks down we may replace the parts or even buy
another machine, but when our health is injured, money will
not restore it.
In order to keep well we must observe certain rules of health.
By exercise we keep the working parts in good order. If we
are lazy or indolent we are like the bicycle that is allowed
to go to pieces from lack of use. If we are reckless and
foolhardy we may injure some part of the delicate machinery
from excessive exercise or strain.
Play is the most natural thing in the world but we must use
judgment in our play. A boy or girl who is not allowed to
play or who is restrained by too anxious parents is unhappy
indeed. Nearly all animals play. We know, for instance, that
puppies, kittens, and lambs are playful.
It is a perfectly natural instinct. By proper play we build
up our bodies and train our minds. The healthy man never gets
too old to play. He may not care to play marbles or roll
hoops, but he will find his pleasure in some game or sport
like tennis, golf, horseback riding, camping, fishing or hunting.
In this book we shall talk about some forms of play and
recreation that are not strictly confined to children,
but which we may still enjoy even after we have become grown
men and women.
This ebook is about Play and Outdoor Lifestyle. It is a
lifestyle that everyone should cultivate in order to live
a long and happy life.
If we live a natural, open-air life we shall have but little
need of doctors or medicine. Many of our grandmothers'
notions on how to keep well have changed in recent years.
Old-fashioned remedies made from roots and herbs have been
almost completely replaced by better habits of life and
common-sense ideas.
We used to believe that night air was largely responsible
for fevers and colds. Doctors now say that one of the
surest ways to keep well is to live and sleep in the open air.
In many modern houses the whole family is provided with
outside sleeping porches with absolutely no protection
from the outside air but the roof.
I have followed the practice of sleeping in the open air
for some time, and in midwinter without discomfort have
had the temperature of my sleeping porch fall to six
degrees below zero.
Of course it is foolish for any one to sleep exposed to
rain or snow or to think that there is any benefit to be
derived from being cold or uncomfortable.
The whole idea of open-air sleeping is to breathe pure,
fresh air in place of the atmosphere of a house which,
under the best conditions, is full of dust and germs.
If we become outdoor sleepers, coughs and colds will be
almost unknown. General Sherman once wrote a letter in
which he said that he did not have a case of cold in
his entire army and he attributed it to the fact that
his soldiers slept and lived in the open air.
One can almost tell a man who sleeps in the open by
looking at him. His eye is clear and his cheek ruddy.
There is no surer way to become well and strong than
to become accustomed to this practice. Then you can
laugh at the doctor and throw the medicine bottles away.
Start enjoying your life today by cultivating an outdoor
lifestyle! Outdoor Sports and Games will open your eyes to
the new way of cultivating good health and enjoying life
at the same time.
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