The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-10-13
How to Run:

Very few boys Know how to run:
"Ho, ho!" say q dozen boys. "Jus
bring or the boy that can run faste'
than I cam"
But, stop a moment. I don't NEAR
that most boys can't run fast, ]
mean they can't run far. 1 don't be
liev there is one boy in fifty, o
those who may read this, who car
run a quarter of a mile at a gooC
smart pace without having to blow
like a porpoise by the time he ha;
made his distance. And how many
boys are there who can run, fast OF
slow, a full mile without st ,pping?
1t hardly speaks well for our race,
does it, that almost any animal
in creation. that pretends to run al
all can Outrun any of u.s.!
Take the smallest terrier dog you
can find, that is If he is sound and
not a puppy, and try a ace with
him. He'll beat you badly. He'll
run a third faster than you can, and
ten times "a far, and this with legs
not more than six inches long. /
have a hound so active that he al
WAYS rms at least seventy-ive miles
when I stay q day in the woods with
him; for he certainly runs more than
seven miles an hour, and if I am
gone ten hours, you see he must
travel about seventy-five miles of dis
lance. And then, a good hound will
sometimes follow a fox for two days
and nights without stopping, go
ing more than three hundred and
fifty miles, and he will do it without
eating or sic. ping.
Then. you have heard how some of
the runners in South African tribes
will run for long distances-hun-
dreds of miles-carrying dispatches,
and making very few stops.
! make these comparisons to show
that our boys who cannot run a mile
without being badly winded are very
poor runners.
But [ believe I can tell the boys
something that will help them to
run better. l was a pretty old bay
when I first found it out, but the
first time [ tried it 1 ran a mile and
a quarter at one dash, and | was not
weary or blown. And now 1 am
going to give you the secret:
Breathe through your nose!
I had been thinking what poor run
ners we are, and wondering why the
animals can run so far, ana it came
to me that perhaps this might &C.
count for the difference, that they al
ways take air through the nose,
while we usually begin to puff air
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.
I found once, though a sad expert
ence with a pet dog, that dogs must
die if their nostriIs become stopped.
They will breathe through the mouth
only while it is forcibly held open;
if left to themselves they always
breathe through the nose.
So, possibly, we are intended to
take all our breath through the nose,
unless necessity drives us to breathe
through the mouth.
There are many other reasons why
ought to make ose furnish
all 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 surfaces of the nose, and
particles of dust that would other
wise rush into the lungs and make
trouble are caught and kel t out by
his little hairy network. Then the
passages Of the nose are longer and
smaller and more crooked than that
If the mouth, so that as it passes
them the air becomes warm.
But these are only a few reasons why
The nose ought to be switched off and
eft idle, as 80 many noses are, while
heir owners are putting through
mouths.
All trainers for men for racing and
and other athletic contests.
understand this, and teach their pu-
,iIs accordingly. II the boys will try |
his plan they will soon see what a
it makes in their endur-
lnce. After you have lun a few rods |
your mouth tightly closed
here will come a time when it will
eem as though you could not get
Iir enough through the nose alone;
tut don't give up, keep right on, and
II a few moments you will overcome
his. A little practice of this method
will 60 far to make you the best rum
Ter in the Observation-Disclosures. B.
Williams, in st.. Nicholas.