DAILY SWIM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 166, 27 April 1935, Page 2

DAILY SWIM.

HOW MR ROOSEVELT KEEPS FIT President Roosevelt began the year 1935 in better physical condition than when he entered the White House, his physicians report. This is remarkable, for the Presidency has been called a job which invariably kills its man but Mr Roosevelt with the most trying conditions of any President since Wilson to cope with, defies prophecy and logic and looks better every year. Dr. Ross Mclntire, chief White House physician, declares that this is due to ihe regular routine which the President follows. The. routine is:

8.30, awake and breakfast in bed, with a few morning papers. 10.30, across to Executive offices, where a full day is invariably arranged by the President's secretaries, often necessitating lunch on a tray at his desk.

5.30, a swim in the pool constructed in the White House specially for the President. 6.45, rest. 7.45, dinner. 10.30 to 11, bed.

Like the King, President Roosevelt is an enthusiastic stamp collector and often spends the final few minutes before retiring with his collection. In addition to routine, the Presideut believes in vacations. He allows nothing tQ! interfere with his holiday plans. He went fishing off Florida in the Astor yacht in March last year when Congress was on its worst behaviour: he took a long Pacific cruise in midsummer when the industrial situation was most acute, and spent the remainder of the summer in his country home at Hyde Park. He took a third holiday in the autumn. Another reason for the President's good health is that he allows nothing to worry him. He can meet every situation with a laugh—from the abandonment of the gold standard down. Itis an attitude which some of his critics fine intensely irritating, but it keeps him in fine shape.