He shambles along as best he can, if he is positively obliged to walk.

His feet trouble him.

Altogether he is only comfortable when riding.

When he has reached this state the insurance companies regard him as a poor risk, and instead of enjoying the allotted threescore and ten years of real life he falls short by a decade; and even then the last ten years are but "labor and sorrow." AS THE YEARS GO ON The first thing that a man begins to lose through the inroads of age is his resistive power.

He may seem in perfect health so long as there is no special change of conditions, but when he is placed in a position where he needs his resistive forces to throw off disease, he finds that he cannot command them.
Still another change is continually taking place; as the man goes on in life, little by little the control of his muscles leaves him.