The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-03-09
Running,


Very few boys know how -
| "Ho, hor' say dozen hor : iaa
bring ON the boy that can =,
than | can!'' run u
But, stop a moment 80,
that most boys can't run ~ ~ %
they can't run far. Idon't hs,;.,. . =
is one boy in fifty, of those nv y
read this, who can run an.s y 9
mile at a good smart pace T; aaassI 7
ing to blow like a porpoise bv ' ~ \
ne has made his distance. a y I
many boys are there who can 1au
or slow, a full mile without sto, ~ |
1t hardly speaks well for n spas I
does it. that almost any animal !.
ton that pretends to run At IN =. = q
run any of us? az
Take the smallest terrier-doc 3.
find, that is sound and not 4 n, { Ivy
try a race with him. HellI XXX.
badly. He'll run a third faster a. IA \
can, and ten times as far. and III; ss L
legs not more than six inches lSs
have a hound SO active that he y sIs
runs at least seventy-five miles M j
stay a day in the woods with him i. y y
certainly runs more than seven nm, MY; =
hour, and if | am gone ten hfs ,,,s''' l
see he must travel about seysrts y
miles of distance. And then
hound will sometimes follow
two days and nights without storm
going more than three hundref
fifty miles. and he will do 4 IN
eating or sleeping.
Then, you may have heard how !,
OF the runners in the South Abj
tribes will run for long distances
dreds OF understanding dispatches |,
making very few stops.
make these comparisons il II
that our boys who can not run 4 N
without being badly winded are y
poor runners.
But l believe I can tell the bovs j.
thing that will help them to run NM
| was q pretty old boy when / y
found it out, but the first time I,r;a]
| ran a mile and aquarter at one 1,5|
and | was not weary nor blown N
now I'm going to give you the sscr1s
breathe through your 9oset
/ had been thinking what potr u
ners we are. and wondering Win \
animals can run SO far. and it came h
that perhaps this might account ior h
difference, that they always take \
through the nose, while we us,nny n
gin to puff through our mouths 6eI1
we have gone many rods. Some n
mails. such as the dog and the Ia \
open their mouths and pant Wills n
ming, but they do this to cool, fkss|
selves, and not because they can nj /,
air enough through their noses.
Ifound once. through a sd el,u|
once with a pet dog, that dogs mud p
If their nostrils become stopped
will breathe through the mogth g
while it is forcibly held open; Il It'd !
themselves they always breathe thnu
the nose. - s
So, possibly, we are intended u q
all our breath through the nose, unI}
necessity drives us to breathe thruaI
the mouth.
There are many other reasons Viii
ought to make our noses furnish IL q
lir to our lungs. One is, the no&
illed with little forest of hair, NJ
$ always kept moist, like all the ia
iurfaces of the nose, and particla
lust that would otherwise rush into !
ungs and make trouble are caught =
.ept out by this little hairy net-xq
then the passages Of the nose arc II
T and smaller and more crooked
hat of the mouth, SO that as It ~
trough them the air becomes MI
SUIT these are only a few reasons
be nose ought not TO be switched
nd left idle, as SO many noses
1hile their owners 60 putting thul
HSiA iAouttios r..s.s so g :. /
All trainers of men for racing andr
1g, and all other athletic contests
erstand this, and teach their pupil
ordingly. If the boys will try thisd
tey will soon see what q diiferena
I'LL make in their endurance.
on have run a few rods holding y
louth tightly closed, there will con
lme when it will seem as though
ould not get air enough through
ose alone; but don't give up;
lght on, and in a few moments You
vercome this. A little practiceof
1ethod will go far to. make you The
unner in the neighborhood. 1Aed
williamson. in st. Nicholas.