Specialisation, Recreation And Study.

Specialisation and machinery have increased production, and in consequence real wages have been increased and the hours of labour shortened. More time for recreation has produced a healthier life and provided a much wider margin for study. To the studious worker the new system opens up a field of research of unlimited interest; it presents a range and variety of problems in science and art hitherto unknown.

Theoretical as well as practical knowledge is necessary to-day if we would make a real success of our jobs. Tom Heeney would not have qualified for a world's championship by merely studying physical culture. It was necessar for him to go into the for him to go into the ring and test, in a practical manner, the theoretical knowledge he possessed. To excel as a swimmer, books will help, but swimming must be learnt in the water.