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nobleart1978 wrote:In his autobiography called "Jack Johnson is a dandy" Johnson devotes a whole chapter of his book to the benefits of eating the humble banana.

It sounds mad, but Johnson comes across as very informed on the said fruit and praises it's virtues.

Caractacus wrote:I found the 1908 article about Feinting and Timing
which looks to have been originally published in FRY'S MAGAZINE OF SPORT AND OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE.
and It was re-printed in a compilation book published in 2011.

https://books.google.com/books?id=-GL_D ... pg=PT64&dq

yawcond51 wrote: ↑11 Dec 2017, 18:12 Yes, I have a copy, but unfortunately in circumstances where I have to sell it. I'm a little concerned that if I scan it I may be lessening its value, but I'll try and ask somebody about that and let you know. I'm in Australia and not sure of the way I'm going to sell it at the moment.

yawcond51 wrote: ↑11 Dec 2017, 20:28 This is the beginning of the section on Physical Culture on page 21 (and the end of section on 'His Own Thoughts'.)
He talks about the value of bananas on page 27.
Is inserting a scan difficult?

"......... among my friends some of the most notable persons of America and the world in general. What a vast stretch of the imagination to picture myself a fugitive from my own country, yet sought and acclaimed by thousands in nearly every nation of the world. What an unusual circumstance, that while I feared to return to my own country and was a voluntary exile, one of the most notorious revolutionary leaders of Mexico—Villa—was making frantic efforts to finance my return to the western hemisphere and was attempting to stage in Mexico the championship fight between myself and Willard. How far removed from my thoughts was the possibility that tragedy would creep into my life - the tragedy of a prison term in one in-stance and the death by suicide of one whom I greatly loved in the other. These are but a few of the unusual events that have come into my life. There are countless others, because I have lived rapidly, intensely, eagerly. However, they cannot all be told in this one small book.

PHYSICAL CULTURE Every second of our life is devoted to battling against death. For the most part we wage the battle unconsciously. We are unaware of the conflict as long as we have good health. It is only when illness overtakes us that we are re-minded of the potential dangers of disease. Even when we feel in the best of spirits and the body is functioning normally, resistance to death is being carried on constantly. Nature carries on the fight regardless of our interest. Most of us assume that nature will do her part without our aid. We become neglectful and what is worse, deliberately set obstacles in nature's way, making her battle for life much harder and often futile. The average man knows less about the functions of his body than he does about his automobile. Men know how to build up and maintain big fortunes but they do not know how to maintain their health, the greatest fortune of all."