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William Muldoon,
Professor of Regularity
SIDE LIGHTS ON THE BUILDER UP OF
HUMANITY AND HIS SYSTEM.
RUNDOWN
Round Temperance Who Has Been J
Practical Preacher of
Muldooning Secretary Root Was the World's Champion
Greco-Roman Wrestler—Bitter Hater of Whisky
and Cigarettes—His Guests, From Statesmen
Down, Must Obey His Rules or They Are
Shown the Farm Gate.
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RE yon run down? Do you feel
By ROBERTUS LOVE.
dopy? Does the dark brown
A K
[^■^ taste adhere to the roof of your
mouth ? Do you rage and imag
ine vain things? Well, if so you are
Inot a heathen. You are simply an
loverclvillzed person. The trouble with
vou Is that you have been pursuing too
|closely the golden calf, which can run
faster than a bay Bteer, or you have
Ibeen working too hard for a living.
You have been dissipating. Perhaps
[the dissipation .consists of too much
[work and the consequent worry. Per
[haps It consists of cocktails, cigarettes
(or oven champagne. Perhaps you are
[what teetotalers call "temperate," but
[you have been eating too heartily or
partaking of food that Is altogether too
rich for your blood. No matter. Wheth
|er you have brain fag, mental stagna
tlon, Intellectual torpidity, nervous
prostration or just a dammed liver
dammed up by a clogged system that
cries for exercise and relief—there Is
one thing that you must have done to
you before you get over the trouble.
You must be muldooned.
Muldooning is the latest cure, even
later than Christian Science. It Is
many centuries later than medicine.
Perhaps It wasn't needed when men
lived the simple life, before the days of
WILLIAM MULDOON
AND TWO OF HIS
ROMAN WRESTLER.
POSES AS A GRECO
subwaye and trolley cars and whiz
wagons and stock tickers and dally
papers and the tending of noisy ma
chines In noisome factories. Bnt in
these overcivilized days a severe course
In muldooning becomes necessary now
and then for many men.
And what Is muldooning?
Well, that reminds me. An old farm
er In Arkansas once remarked to a
youngster:
"Young feller, to be well an' stout
an' peart you must eat reg'lar, sleep
reg*lar an' work reg'lar, but," he add
ed after a pause, "not too blamed reg'
lar as to the work."
And that is the liasement, superstruc
turn, roof and skylight of muldooning
—the whole structure of the science of
restoring mental and physical faculties
which have fallen Into bad habits and
gone awry. It Is the science of rag
ularity without Intemperance la eat
lug, sleeping or working.
Luxury All Can Have.
Ellbu Root just now Is being mul
fiooned. Mr. Root Is the American pre
tnier, the secretary of state, with only
two men In official rank between him
aad the presidency of the United
States. He believes in muldooning,
and that should be a good recoin
mendatlon for the system. Yon need
not go to William Muldoon's place, as
Secretary Root has done, to be mul
dooned. You can muldoon yourself
wherever you are. Mr. Muldoon has
room for only a few men at a time,
and It costs much money to be mul
dooned by Muldoon, the original mul
dooaer. Consequently only the rich
(an afford to muldoon at Muldoon's.
But this luxury is yours for the taking
at your own home, for Mr. Muldoon
hasn't patented his system.
Muldoon's place is a farm about two
■bOss from White Plains, N. Y. There
fa a commodious boose, with shower
***hs aad a gymnasium, 'non are
tooad acres for walking over and ioag
faads far tiding along, and than an
gardens to hoe and hay to rake and I
fork. Muldoon is called 'Professor," t
an( j jj e deserves the title. Nearly twen
ty years ago he began his career as a
professor of regularity and a practical
preacher of all round temperance. He
»o divinity de*™. „.d protably I
no scholastic degrees, but he Is one of
the most successful doctors and preach
ers in this country or any other.
Up to about 1889 William Muldoon
was the champion Greco-Roman wres
tler of the world. He could throw
any man on earth time and again.
He went up against the champibn
of land after land and put him
to the mat. He held the championship
so many years that he got ashamed
of his selfishness and voluntarily re
linquished It so that the other fellows
might have a chance. Then Muldoon
entered upon his long career of mul
dooning.
The Boston Bruiser.
One of the first conspicuous person
ages to be muldooned was John L.
Sullivan. Muldoon took the Boston
bruiser In hand to put him In shape
for the fight with Jake Kllrain. Sul
livan, as everybody knows, was dissi
pated. When be went to Muldoon's
he was unruly at first. But the pro
fessor gave him to understand that he
must obey the rules absolutely or be
chucked out. which would mean his
probable defeat at the hands of Kll
rain and the desertion of the friends
who were trying to keep him In the
championship. John L. trained under
Muldoon aud found Kllrain easy
Regularity did it.
Kid McCoy and other pugilists were
put In shape by Muldoon to their ad
vantage. But prize fighters have
formed only a small percentage of
Muldoon's list of patients. Rich New
York clubmen aud society men. Wall
Streeters and professional giants have
gone to Muldoon's with their livers
dammed up and their tongues wearing
overcoats In August. They have un
dergone the six weeks or so of mul
doonlng and come away feeling like
new men.
There are two things which Profess
<> r Muldoon hates as a chicken hates
* rattlesnake. Whisky is one and
cigarettes the other. No whisky gets
past his threshold, and a cigarette
can't come within smelling distance,
Muldoon was walking on Eighth ave
nue. In New York, one day when four
boys, all smoking cigarettes, passed by.
"Look at those boys," he remarked
, to a friend. "That Is an evil that
ought to be suppressed. Cigarettes
| are the bane of a boy's life. Give me
a lad who knows nothing of them or
the taste of beer and liquor, and I'll
give you the making of a big, strong
j and healthy man. I take a great In
I terest in little chaps and do everything
j I can to encourage their Ideas of sport,
I would like to teach them all to stay
! away from vice and to learn to box.
wrestle, run and jump."
On another occasion a young man
■mnirtng a cigarette approached Mul
doon to get data for a life of John L.
"If you'll stop sucking that thing
and throw it away. I'll talk to you,'*
said the professor.
T%at was some years sgc, and Mr.
Muldoon was described as "a hand
seme blue eyed man, with checks as
pretty as the speckled aides of June
apples, his shoulders looking aa solid
as his limbs, so lithe and active.'' Now
the professor is past sixty, perhaps a
little older than his present distin
guished patient. Secretary. Root^ who
Is sixty-two and a half. Yet Muldoon
still looks as pretty as the bloomy side
Of an EQberta peach, and he can punch
the bag, box, wrestle, ride, walk or
work to the limit of endurance for any
one of his patients, even the youngest
and strongest of them.
Genesis of Muldooning.
In his early manhood Muldoon wist
cavalry officer. He served during tfil
civil war and In the regular army aft
er the war. It Is said that he con
ceived his theory of building up nm
' down humanity in the service on the
plains, when gangs of recruits were
Sent to him to be made into troopers.
Many of the men who enlisted in those
days Just after the war were sorry
specimens of humanity. Moat of tbs
good ablebodied fellows had had too
much of war. it was difficult to get
recruits. But when a man waa starr
ing be was willing to enlist, and Mul
doon got many of that sort. Ha put
them through a regular course of traln
I ^~ ln ea , tln *' and working.
t *!.!!
Muldoon bis Idea, which be put into
practice a quarter of a century later.
It was the genesis of muldooning.
Those who go to Muldoon's place go
I "Si
fessor is the commanding officer. He
looks over the man and tells him pre
cisely what to eat, bow much and
when. He prescribes Just so many
hours' sleep, usually about nine. The
recruit must get up when the com
mander knocks on his door, about 6
o'clock. When Muldoon says work he
must work, whether It be some form
of play exercise or real labor In the
fields. If a man needs something in
his diet to make him sleep (letter, Mul
doon feeds him lettuce, but more often
he feeds him work.
Once a man went to Muldoon's who
was troubled with sleeplessness. At
"taps," 9 o'clock, every light la sup
posed to lie put out. The professor no
ticed some time later a light In this
man's room. He was reading.
: "All right, my man," muttered the
professor.
I It wasn't all right. It was al 1 wrong.
That was merely the Muldoon way of
keeping to himself what he intended
i doing next day to the derelict one.
| He simply put on the patient a con
i slderable amount of extra work, say
! lug nothing us to having caught him
j with his light burning after taps. That
night Mr. l'atlent excused himself
| shortly after supi*er and retired. He
slept soundly until the professor rap
' ped on Ills duor next morning at 6.
Medicine Ball Drill.
Mr. Muldoon has Invented one form
of exercise which looks amusing to
the outsider, but It is said tj be the
most efficacious of all. It is the medi
cine ball drill. The professor conceiv
ed the idea of making some balls rang
ing from six to thirty Inches In diam
eter. The men at the farm divide into :
sides every morning and proceed to
pass the medicine balls. No man
knows at any moment the size or
weight of the ball be Is going to get
tossed at him. It may be a little fel
low or the biggest In the series. This
keeps him mentally alert as well as
physically.
Any system that trains the body and
neglects the mind, according to Mul
doon, Is false to the first principles of
physical culture. The ability to see.
think and act at one and the same
time is the secret of success In ath
letics as well as In life, says this mas
ter muldooner of men.
When Secretary Root went to Mul
(Soon's some weeks ago he was In a
condition which gave his friends much
alarm. He had been working too hard.
The secretaryship of state fa no sine
cure. Mr. Root was run down. For
•ome time he had been thinking of go
ing to Muldoon's, and his friends ad
vised him to do so.
"Mr. Root feels like a new man al
ready." said the professor a few days
ago, and the secretary of state was
, . . ._____
| seen to leap Into the Mu ldoon w agon
st the postofflee without touching the
step, which went to prove that he was
physically active.
The professor will not let Secretary
Root work at official business more
than two hours a day. and some days
he is said to limit the premier to half
an hour, according to his condition.
Horseback riding Is prescribed
daily, winter or summer, rain or shine,
and a dally walk of four mites or so
la in the curriculum of this school for
regularity. The Muldoon guests, from
statesman down, are simply pupils un
der the professor, who is quite a pug
nacious man, by the way. and will
brook no Interference with hla author
ity. If a secretary of state or any
body else declines to obey the rales,
what happens? Well, the heed m as ter
is not authorized to go to the woods,
cut a birch switch and apply tt. Bat
he shows the farm gate to tike obstrep
erous one.
Every Buuday morning the guests
are weighed. The professor also steps
on the scales, for he wants to see
whether he Is keeping btmaeif ip con
dition. Any man who h*s phkfl flash
when he should have loot 1L er vice
vena, gets a change at treatment the
following week The change is huge
ly in the matter of exercios or work,
whether it be boxing, medicine balling,
riding or hoeing potatoes.
It may be that the personality of
Professor Moldoon counts for much
|n the muldooning of men. He exacts
systematic obedience or he will have
nothing to do with a man. But a
coarse In amateur muldooning la open
to anybody, anywhere, at any time. If
all of ns were muldooned now and
it would mean money in oar
pockets
And there are no pockets in aknooda.
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Hats In Olden Days.
The felt hat Is as old ns Homer. The
Greeks made them In skullcaps, con
ical, truncated, narrow or broad brim
med. The Phrygian bonnet was an el
evated cap without a brim, the apex
turned over In front It fa known as
the cap of liberty. An ancient figure
of Liberty In the times of Antonlus
Lfvlus, A. D. 11S. holds the cap In the
right hand. The Persians wore soft
caps. Plumed hats were the head
dress of the Syrian corps of Xerxes.
The broad brim was worn by the
Macedonian kings. Castor means a
beaver. The Armenian captive wore a
plug hat. The merchants of the four
teenth century wore a Flanders beaver.
Charles VII. In 14d0 wore a felt hat
lined with red and plumed. The Eng
lish men and women In 1610 wore eloae
woolen or knitted cape. Two eenturiee
ago hats were worn In the house.
Pepys in his diary wrote. "September.
1664, got a severe cold because he took
off his hat at dinner." and again in
January. 10(15, be got another cold by
sitting too long with his head bare to
allow bis wife's maid to comb hla hair
and wash his ears, and Lord Claren
don In hfa essay, speaking of the decay
of respect due the aged, says that In
his younger days he never kept his hat
on before those older than himself ex
cept at dinner.
Frivolous Prayer.
In the memoirs of Oomtesse de
Botgne, who lived over a hundred
yean ago, appean the following: "1
bad a gfeat speculative veneration for
that youthful Louise de f'onde, weep
ing for the crimes of her country at
the foot of altare. I bad formed a
romantic Idea of her. but It was Daces
sery to avoid seeing the heroine. Com
noon, vulgar and Ignorant she was
middle class In her thoughts, In her
sentiments. In tier actions, words and
person One was tempted to pity God
for being so constantly Importuned by
ber. She called on him for help In
all the most futile circumstances of
her puerile existence. I have seen her
offer up prayer to recover a ball of
wool which had fallen under ber
chair."
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