Monday, July 28, 1919

Cloudy with some rain at intervals during day. Picked berries. Chopped wood back of garage. Read. Played piano etc. Took nap in P.M. Father, H.H. and Nell to city. Played checkers. To bed 10:30 P.M.

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Stanford's wood chopping and other "choring," as he put it, were highly recommended at the time for maintaining moral and physical health, at least according to the American Social Hygiene Association, the U.S. Public Health Service and the YMCA, who in 1919 collaborated to produce a series of posters to help young men stay on the right path. Here is a copy of one of them, taken from the Social Welfare History Project website:

As you can see, Stanford was well on his way to moral and physical health; he was doing all of these "home exercises" regularly.