-3- Suddenly, without warning, her father died - and when the estate was settled - it was found that there was practically nothing left. Then the girl began to think and she realized that as we had both been delightful pals - that this relationship - would probably go on and - at her mother's suggestion we became engaged and were married a year later. During that year, I had her go through a definite course of physical training and I did likewise. For our honeymoon, I took her deep into the mountains, away from everything. Here we spent the summer, rowing and swimming. We returned to town that fall in the best of condition - and just nine months from that time we had a beautiful daughter whose weight was over twelve pounds as contrasted with the average weight of babies, which is about seven pounds. Following this - at two year intervals - we had three sons. Everything was correctly timed - not merely as to the best time of year for childbirth but also as to inception and delivery, and so close were these calculations made, that no child arrived over four hours late. The methods of exercise which we followed all these years were not the so-called artificial exercises like pulling chest weights, throwing a medicine ball, pushing dumb-bells toward heaven, wildly swinging Indian clubs or swinging like monkeys from wooden bars - as I realized that very little benefit was obtained if a person did not have some fun with their exercise. For eight months during the year, Golf, Tennis and swimming proved perfect - for days on which there was no rain - and in winter, snow-shoeing, sking[sic] and skating gave one sufficient exercise to keep in the best of physical condition. We have a concrete wall against the rear of the house-. Here we all played hand ball daily - except when it rained. On such days and on many snowy days in winter we played hand-ball in our cellar where I had fixed up a court - a brisk game of hand-ball before the morning shower puts one in fine trim for the days work, and another game at night creates a wonderful appetite for supper. All my children were good all around athletes and have never been ill. My wife and I have always played with them and competed with them successfully until a few years ago when they surpassed us in athletic activity. Our food, all these years, consisted of fruit, cereals, vegetables, bread, unsalted butter, cheese, eggs, and a quart of milk a day for each person. We only had meat once a week - usually for the Sunday meal. It is now over 26 years since our marriage. We are still the best of pals and our children have grown to maturity. All of them are six feet, or more in height and well built in proportion. Thus through the help of physical culture I succeeded in having my children regain thr[sic] family height of my ancestors. JUN 22 1928 indexed