Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-02-16
How to Run.
Very few boys know how to ri

very lew boys know now TO run.
"H0, hol" say dozen boys. Gust
bring on the boy that can run faster
than camp
But, stop 8 moment. l don't mean
that most boys can't run fast--I mean
they can't run far. l don't believe
there is one boy in fifty, of those who
may read this, who can run quarter
of a mile at good smart pace without
having to blow like porpoise by the
time he has made his distance. And
how many boys are there who can
rum. fast or slow, full mile without
stopping?
1t hardly speaks well for our race
does it, that almost any animal in Gre
alton that pretends to run at all can
outrun any of us?
Take the smallest terrier dog you
can find, that is sound ard not a pup
Ply, and try race W h him. He'll
beat you badly. + i run third
faster than you can, and ten times as
far, and this with legs not more than
six inches long. | have a hound so
active that he always runs at least sew
enty-fve miles when / stay day in
the woods with him; for he certainly
runs more than seven miles an hour,
and if l am gone ten hours, you see
he must travel about seventy-fve miles
Of distance. And then, good hound
will sometimes follow fox for two
days and nights without stopping, GO
ing more than three hundred and fiftv
miles, md ne will do it without eating
or slice ping.
Then, you may have heard how
some Of the runners in the South
African tribes will run for long dis
tances-hundreds Of understanding
dispatches, and making very few stops.
make these comparisons to show
that our boys who can not run a mile
without being badly winded, are very
poor runners.
But l believe / 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 l
tried it ran mile and quarter at
one dash, and | was not weary nor
blown. And now Pm going to give you
the secret:
Breathe through yo,y nose
l had been thinking what poor run
ners we are, and wondering why the
q ANNALS 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, 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, but they do
this to cool themselves, and not because
they cannot get air enough through
their noses.
] found once, through sad expert
ence with pet dog, that dogs must die
if their nostrils become stopped. They
will breathe through the mouth only
while it is forcibly held open; 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 our lungs. One is, the nose
is filled with 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 of the
nose are longer, and smaller, and more
crooked than that of the mouth, so that
as it passes through them the air be-
comes warm. But these are only a
few reasons why the nose ought not to
be switched off and left idle, as so
many noses are, while their owners 20
putting through their mouths.
All trainers of men for racing and