The morning call., 1890-11-25
WALKING CLUBS.
Lazy People Have No Interest in the
Subject.

Lazy People Have No Interest in the
Subject.
There are few places in the country more
advantageously located than San Francisco
for those city jewellers who enjoy days
recreation now and then apart from the
scenes of business strife.
An hours ride from the western metropo-
lis brings the sight-seer into any character of
country desired, except snow-covered peaks,
and occasionally Mount Tamalpais and the
hills back of the City of Oaks furnish
these, so that walking clubs should abound
here; where there is one there should be a
dozen, An enthusiastic walker sends a
clipping from an Eastern Journal with q re-
quest for its publication in The CALL, hop
ing it may stimulate some OF our young peo-
pie to engage in that most healthful pastime,
walking, and as the winters OF California
are so mild and favorable for outings, now is
the time TO get out into the country. The
clipping is printed below, and it is probable
the writer has taken his points from the
notices of the Sight-secrs' Club Of this city,
which have frequently appeared in this
Journal:
You may have heard of a hundred kinds
of clubs from baseball to Browning, and
you may belong 10 half dozen, and yet have
never heard Of walking club. If So you
have missed one of the best of all.
Autumn is here. and the bracing mir makes
YOU Iecl ike UliShly. Liz ltdNcS
are turning to gold ana scarlet, the nuts are
nearly ripe and the squirrels are scampering
through the trees, chatterlpg challenges
with saucy eyes. Now is the time to organ
ize walking clubs.
A number OF bright boys and girls might
get up such club in an hour. No initiation,
no fees. A President perhaps and maybe a
Secretary to put down anything wonderful
that may happen during the walks. The
only business of the club will be to settle
where they will walk. No constitution, Ii
bylaws.
Take any morning when it does not rain,
see that your feet are shOd strongly and COM
fOrtably, and walk as many miles as you can
without fatigue. Hold up your head, throw
your chest forward and walk. Don't mince
along or shuttle. but strike a long, swinging
step from the hip j,ints.
Have destination. Select farm house
or a country inn three miles out. Manage TO
get there in time for dinner or supper and
after eating rest one hour. Then come home
by different route. At night take bath
and 60 to bed.
Take walk once the first week, twice the
second week and keep that up for six weeks.
Then walk three times week, it the weather
permits. Begin with siX-mile walk and
lengthen it TO ten.
Keep up these walks during the autumn
and winter-in fact, up to next summer.
Get number to 60, and keep on enlisting
new members. Seek new route for every
walk, If such thing is possible. if NOT, add
variety by dividing The club into two deiach-
ments, which shall meet at some previously
agreed upon place to lunch. Then swap
routes" for the return trir. or return all
together by a third route.
There are hundred ways of preventing
monOiOny. lncite members to discover new
points of interest and ge. an amateur botan-
list or geOlogist to join you. Study natural
history as You walk, discuss, argue, reason-
but don't quarrel.
This is the way to be healthy and wise.
Never nind the wealth-that will come of
itself.