And when a man is in a normal condition he is in perfect health and physical trim.

That was the initial intention in this case, just to make the President physically fit, and to keep him so." Richard M.Winans says: "The Admiral told me that when he first took charge of the President, Mr.Wilson was not a little averse to taking any sort of exercise.
However, Doctor Grayson early succeeded in impressing upon Mr.Wilson that good health was an absolutely important factor in dealing with the grilling duties which would face him during the coming four years, and that his physical well-being was vital not only to himself, but to the welfare of the entire country." The President has a dislike almost akin to abhorrence for mechanical appliances intended to exercise the muscles of the body.

There is not a dumbbell, or an Indian club, nor a medicine-ball, nor a punching-bag, nor a turning-bar, nor a trapeze, nor a lifting or pulling apparatus, nor a muscle--exercising machine of any sort or description in the White House.

The only mechanical device used by the President is a simple, unoffending golf-club.
[Illustration: SPRING WORK.] Aside from his work in the open air, Mr.Wilson takes a number of physical exercises indoors, very few of which have ever been described in print.

Some of these exercises are taken as a substitute for outdoor recreations at times when weather conditions are too extreme.