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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7902, 30 July 1904, Page 5

It is popular fallacy (says " Health ")"•■': that profuse' perspiration is in all cases wealconbo-, and yet. this is "a proposition , that is being constantly put forward. The best reply to; those who urge that it is weakening is ,perh[aps a' reference to the men- engaged■: in gasworks, to the' puddlers in. iron foundries, 'toi'the'1 sugar boilers, and to all whose daily labour is of: the scverist bodily •description.' Many of ; these . men work stripped, to the. waist. The perspiration pours off in sucli■■quari-1 ti'ty" as often to make a'pool at their feet, yet these men are often' the perfection aLjjeal'lh and strength. They have •no encumbering- fat, and are .l'n<e from colds and nearly every, disease. Again, it is -well-known how gymnasts, pedestrians, and oarsmen induce profiise' '.perspiration • while training, and yet do "not loser their powers of endurance.