Iron County register., 1888-04-19
1eN.FiTs OF WALKING.
The Healthicst Physical Exercise Tor tne
Sickly Ms Well a. tho Strong.


Tho Healthicst Physical Exercise for tns
Sickly ms Well a. the Strong.
There may be necessary exceptions
but the rule is that to be healthy one
must walk, and moreover one must
walk in the open air. No amount OF
dumb bell or Indian club practice in-
doors can in any measure take the
place of this absolute requirement. OF
mans physique. Indeed it is demon
strable that ali violent exercise taken
while confined TO the air of closed
room is directly injurious to the actor.
This is why fencing in hall ca not
develop physique as can most OF the
open air pastimes when judiciousiy ,
practiced.
It is error to take it for granted that
the evolution of enormous muscles IS
necessary TO health or to longevity;
on the contrary. undue development
of any tissue is sure to disarrange that
balance Of physique. that equipoise OF
physical arrangement upon which per-
feet health depends. Athletes of tho
common sort are short-lived and ex-
tire emely subject to diseases of the vital
organs. The moral of this is: Over
development means anticipation. IT
uses vitality in advance. it is hyper
trophy. just as acknowledgements is a
form of atrophy.
Now put on your loose, well-venti-
lated. broad-soaled shoes and come
with me. We are not going out on
walking race TO try 10 lower the rec
old. we do not care about any sport
ing slang, we are gong forth as ra-
tional companions to have brisk
turn for recreation after some exhaust
i've work. Take your staff in hand.
you will find it good exercise for your
hands and arms while walking; never
go without it. If at first your legs are
rather stiff or manageable on ac-
count of long sedentary period. walk
very gently, until you begin to feel
nimble. then increase your pace until
you have reached a speed which gives
you sense of healthful exertion. 1t
you begin to tire. slacken pace. but do
not stop to rest save when the weather
is very dry and the temper ature not
below seventy Fahrenheit or
when you have gradually
cooled yourself by saunter-
ing slowly for some time. Neglect
of this rule may do more harm than
all your exercise can overbalance. l
have seen persons of weak physique
walk on the sea beach in summer until
thoroughly over-heated and then sit
down in the full draught of the cool
sea-breeze. Such invalids wonder
why they do not get well. They think
a change of sir has no value. Sudden
heating or sudden cooling is danger
Gus even to the strongest, it is death
to the weak.
In very warm weather the walker
should adopt gentle. unexciting
pace, so that he may stop in any cool
shade and sit down, if he like. or be
ready to take plunge into some clear.
sweet out-of-the-way stream. At
this season / always carry book
with me to snatch suggestions from as
I rest. A volume of Ruskin. or of
Keats. or of Andre Chenier. Wallace's
Island Life" or an odd volume
of Button, has served my turn
| in many quiet little paradise.
OOH6Uln1CS llk0 u SuOEb HOFcls VI -
book of light essays. Recently took
great delight in going through
Andreas, that curious and quaint old
landmark of Anglo-Saxon poetry SO
charmingly edited by Prof Basker-
will of Vanderbilt University. To me,
study in the open air is the quint-
essence of study. the very bloom and
perfume of the tree of knowledge.
Sometimes I do not open the book
chosen as my companion. but it is q
| pleasure to know that have 1t in NV
pocket or pouch ready to be peeped
into whenever I like. The sense Of
the presence of Emerson or Words
worth or Browning is very satisfying
and fertilizing.
Now we are started upon our walk
and hope you begin 10 feel the fasci-
nation of it.
Next to clear conscience. give me
sound limbs. -Maurice Thompson, IN
ChautauQmaa