The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-21
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"Ho, hof say Il, zen boys. i'fJust
bring on tho by that can run faster
than I oeSt,t' sDu ,tttuch co.
sa But stop L r'c.ssft. I !on't mean
that most bos4 c5n't run iast---I mean
they can't run ar Idon't believe there
is bne boy in Fly Of hose who may read
this who, can run a quarter OF o mile
at q good smart pace without having to
blow like q porpoise by the time he has
made his distance. And how many
boys are there who can run, fast or
slow, fnll mile without stopping?
1t hardly speaks we'll OF our race,
does it, that almost any animal in crea,
ton that pretends to run at all can out
run any Of usp ili ,sp.as %, 20
Take the smallest terrier dog you can
find, that is sound and not puppy,
and try race with him. He'll beat you
badly. He'll run third faster than
you can, and ten times as far, and this
with legs not more than six. inches
long. I have hound SO active that
he always runs OF least seventy-fve
miles when stay day in the woods
with him for he certainly runs moro
than seven miles an hour, and If am
BOuo bou uCufs, you seo no huoo tIuNcl
about seventy five miles distance. And
then, coed hound will sometimes
follow fox two days and nights with
out stopping, going more than three
hundred and fifty miles, and he will do
it without eating or sleeping. uaq
Then, you may have heard how some
of the runners in South African tribes
will run for long distances hundreds
of miles - carrying dispatches, and
making very few stops, ...5,, oi.i nioe o.
/ make these comparisons, to show
TINT our boys who cannot run mile
without being badly winded arc very
poor runners. .-i''' t'" e'' SD ID
But 1 believe can tell tho boys
something til It will help them to run
better. 1 was pretty old boy when I
first found it out, but ~ first time 1
tried IL i ran mile and a quarter at one
dash, anu 4 wo, mot weary or b1Uwn.
And now l am going to give you the
secret: tHi ''i I'D lii'''' 'v't
Breathe through your nosei q
I had been thinking what poor run.
ners 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 always take air
through the nose, We usually begin to
puff through our mouths before we
have gone many rods. Some animals,
such as the dog and fox, do open their
mouths and pant while running, but
they do this, to cool themselves, and
not because they cannot get dir enough
through their noses. p - .57'l
I once found, through a. sad expert
ence with pet dog, that dogs must
die il their nostrils become stopped.
They will breathe through the mouth
only while it is forcibly held open; il
left to themselves they always breathe
through the ncse.y .NN
Sv, possibly, We are intended to take
all our breath through the nose. unless
necessity drives us to breathe through
| tho mouth rG| '1"'ii'Fi~ ~"
There are other reasons why wo
ought to make our noses furnish oil
the air to our lungs. One is, the nose
is filled with a little forest of hair,
| which Is always kept moist, like all the
inner surface OF the nose, and particles
| Of dust that would otherwise rush into
the lungs and make trouble, are caught
and kept out by this. little heavy net
WOIAs 4ucu tuo paooaBeo VI tuo hOoo
are longer, and smaller, and more
crooked than that OF the mouth, so that
o. it passes through them the air becomes
warm. But these are only few reasons
why the nose ought not to be switched
off and left idle, as so many are, while
their owners go putting through their
months. .,.l ~, ..,.i,r,,. siUi.f
gtrs bS 81 Ct n@efe R ffREt assonfess
understand this, and teach their pupils
accordingly. If the boys will try this
plan, they will soon sec what differ
ence it will make in their endurance.
After you have run few yards holding
your mouth tightly closed, there will
come a time when it will seem as though
you could not get Dir enough through
the nose alone; but don't give up; keep
right on, and in o few moments you
will overcome this. A little practice of
this method will go far to make you the
best runner in the neighborhood.-
Tbso n Wilson iu 81 hinbotyA