THE YOUNG IRISHMAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 88, 2 June 1911, Page 4

THE YOUNG IRISHMAN.

In Ireland there is still a tendency to neglect the culture of the body, says the “Irish Review.” The Irish soil and climate favour the production of athletic material. Ireland furnishes a good framework of bone to her men as to her cattle and her horses. Hut the discipline that should come with exercise of the frame has not readied its development. nuiig men, whose leisure might ho turned into vitality and bodily fitness, spend their time standing before the counter of a publichouse. Opposite is a blank suace of deserted building that might lie turned into a court for handball-play-ing. In the country vigorous young men take their leisure on a ditch, smoking or playing cards. The games that existed for amusement and display have decayed with the decay of the country’s rural life. The people of the Scandinavian countries have realised that physical cultivation has an effect on tlie national life. Athletics are for something more than amusement and displav. The mind attains a greater fulness through the exercises of the body. There is surd v

here something for the young New Zealand.-r to note.