Abstract

It Seems To Heywood Broun

The article presents the views of author on American life style. The average American, as things are now, goes about the business all wrong or nearly so. He raises the hand to his lips instead of bending over it. The spirit is that of a hurried diner at a buffet lunch rather than of reverence and adoration. It is no fun for the lady and no exercise for the man. Everybody knows that Americans do not bend nearly enough. There is in the land insufficient romance and too much waist line. One should seize eagerly upon a custom which promises to promote the one and reduce the other. Not a few of the U.S. good citizens engage each morning in exercises designed to promote suppleness of figure. The daily dozen still has an honored place in the national regime. But this is mechanical. Setting-up exercises are hardly ever done with honest zest.