The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-26
How to Run.
Very few boys know how to rur

Very few boys know how to rus.
"Ho, ho!" cay doz9n boys. Just
bring on the boy that can run faster
than [ can!
But stop moment. l don't mean
that G1ost boys can't run fast - |
mean they can't run lar. | don't
believe there is one boy in fifty of
those who may read this, who can
run quarter OF mile at coed
smart pace without having TO blow
like q porpoise by the time he has
made bis distance. And how many
boys are there who can run, fast or
allow. tuIl mile without stopping?
1t hardly spesks well for our race,
does it, that almost any animal in ere
alton that pretends to run at sl Can
ontrun any OF Us?
fake 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 no more than
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active that always runs rs miles when
| stay day in the woods with him
for be certainly runs more than seven
miles an hour, and il | am gone ten
hours, you see be must travel about
IS miles of distance. And then, II
good bound will sometimes follow a
fox two days and nights without stop
ping. going more than $50 miles, and
he will do 1t without eating or sleep
ing.
Then you may have heard how
some Of the runners ia the South
African tribes will run for long dis
tsnces-hundreds of miles ga rrying
dispatches, and making very few
stops.
l make these comparisons t. show
that our boys who can not run a mile
without being badly winded are very
poor runners.
But believe l can tell the boys
something that will help them to run
better. was pretty old boy when
| first found it out, but the first time
/ tried il | ran mile and a quarter
at one dash, and l was not weary nor
blown. And now I'm going to give
you the secret:
Breathe through your nose.
I had been thinking wha. poor
runners We are and wondering why
the animals can run 80 far, and it
me that this might account
for the difference, that they always
take air through their nose, while we
usually begin to puff through our
mouths before we have gone many |
rods. Some animals, such as the
dog and the fox, DO open their mouths |
and pant while running, bat they do |
this to cool themselves, and not be |
cause they cannot get air through |
their noses,
| found once Through sad exper-
ence with pet dog that dogs must
lie if their nostrils become stopped. |
They will breathe through the open |
mouth only while it is forclbly held
open: if left to themselves they al
ways breathe through their noses.
80, possibly, we are intended to take
All our breath through the nose, un-
ess necessity drives us to breathe
hrough the month.
Thee are many other reasons why
Ne ought to make our noses furnish
Ill the air to eur lungs One is. the
lose is filled with little forest of hair,
which is always kept moist, ike al |
he inner surface OF the nose, and
PARTICLES of dust that would otherwise
ush into the lungs and make trouble,
IRE caught and kept out by this little
lairy network. Then the passages
II the nose are longer, and smaller,
md more crooked than that of the
mouth, so that as 1t passes through
Gem the sir becomes warm. But
hese are only few reasons why the
iose ought not to be switched of and
Eft IDLE. as so many noses are. while
heir owners 60 putting through their
mouths.
ALI trainers OF men for racing,
owing, land all other athletic contests,
Understand tnis, aDd teach their pu-
Ills accordingly. II the boys will try
bic plan. they will soon see what a
ifiereoce is will make in their endur-
nee. After Ecu have run lew rods
olding your mouth tightly closed,
here will come t1ne when it will
eem as though yoa could not get air
n0lgh through the nose alone; but
ont give up; keep right on. and in
few moments you will overcome
lis 4 little practice of this method
I'll go far to make you toe best run.
er in the neighborhood.- Theo. B.
9ilson. s. Nicholas for February,
sS2.