KEEPING FIT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17981, 26 January 1924, Page 15

KEEPING FIT.

The biograpiier of Sir W. Crookes, the discoverer of Rontgen rays, says: ''Crooke's activity was prodigious. He never confided his voluminous correspondence to a secretary. He did all his own, typewriting in copying ink, and press-copied all : his letters himself. From 10 to 1 each day he sat at his desk, paying occasional brief visits to liia laboratory to see how things were going. After. lunch i he would go out to the various societies. At 7 he would sit down to dinner. From 8 to 9 he would git in : his library, and would read or • doze. At 9 he would go to the laboratory to work till after midnight. Before retiring to bed it was Crookes's custom to go out- to post his letters for the night collection." And for 40 years, his biographer tells us, he hardly varied this routine. "Ho'had no recreations and Vno holidays, with. the exception of an annua! fortnight, usually spent in the "Channel Islands. He indulged, in no sport. He' did' nothing : to 'keep fit' except work, and if "keeping fit' means keeping in prime condition for-one's chosen work and mode of living, it must' be acknowledged that he succeeded very well." Crookes died in the 87th year of his age.