The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-25

Few bows know how 10 run.

Few boys know how to run. '''''-'' -''' 2
"ElO, ho" say a dozen boys. Just bring
on the boy that can run faster than / can" ~
But, stop a moment. ] don't mean that
BOYS can't run fast mean that they can't
run far. | don't believe there is one boy in
fifly, of those who may read this, who can run
aquar,cr of mile ut good smart pace with
out having TO blow like porboise by the time
he has mate his distance And how many
mile without stopping? ~ E SOW @
1t hardly speaks well for our race, does it,
that almost any animal IN creation that pre-
tends TO run at oil can Outrun any OF us!
Take the smallest terrier dog you can lind,
that is sound and and not "a puppy, and try u
race with HIM. He'll beat you badly. He'll
run third faster than you can and ten times
rs far and this with legs not more than six
inches long. | have IA hound so active that he
always runs at least seventy-hve miles when
stay day IN the woods with him; for he GER
tainly runs more than seven miles an hour,
and if am gone ten hours, you see he must
travel about seventy five miles OF distance.
And then, good hound will sometimes follow
fox for Two days and nights without stopping,
going more than three hundred and fifty miles,
and he will do II without eating or sleeping.
Then, YOU may have heard how some OF the
runners IN the South African tribes will run
for long Observation-Disclosures OF miles--carry-
ing dispatches, and making very few stops.
make these comparisons to show that our
bows who can not run a mile without being
badly winded, are very poor runners.
But believe | can tell the boys something
that will help them to run better. l was Il
pretty old boy when | first found II out, hut
the first time tried It ran II mile and aquar-
ter at one dash, and ! was not weary nor
~, pl ,Tnn,r Uivp The
secret:
breathe MrouW go"r nose -.
had been thinking what poor runners we
are and wondering why the animals can run
so far, and It came to me that perhaps this
might account for the difference, that they al
ways take air through the nose, while we usu-
ally begin to puff through our mouths before
we have gone many rods. Some animals, such
a. the dog and the fox, do open their mouths
and pant while running, but they do tins TO
cool themselves and not because they cannot
get air enough through their noses.
found once, through sad experience with
n pet dog, that dogs must die if their nostrlls
become stopped. They will breathe through
If let to themselves they always breathe through
the nose.
| So, possibly, we are intended 10 take all our
breath through the nose, unless necessity
drives us to breathe through the mouth.
There are many other reasons why we ought
TO make our noses furnish all the air to ouI
lungs One is, the nose ia filled with a little
forest Of hair, which is always kept moist, like
all the inner surfaces of the nose, and parti
Giles OF dust that would otherwise rush into the
lungs and make trouble, are caught and kept
out by this little hairy network. Then the
passages are longer, and smaller and more
crooked than that of the mouth, so that as il
passes though them the air becomes warm
But these are only few reasons why the nose
ought not TO he switched oft and lett IDLE, as
so many noses are, while their owners go pull
| ing through their mouths.
All trainers of men for racing and rowir z
and al! other athletic COMETS, understand this
and teach their pupils accordingly. If the
boys Will try this plan, they will soon see what
difference II will make in their endurance
After you have run a few rods holding your
mouth tightly closed, there will come time
when it will seem as though you couIc
not get air enough by the nose alone; but don
give up; keep right on, and III aiew moments
you will overcome this A little practice OF
this method will 90 far to make you the bes
runner in the neIghborhood.-St. Nich05as.