The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-06-10
Virtues or wsiktng.

Nothing is so agreeable 10 the spirit as
motion. The large portion Of cur enjoy.
ment Of life comes from transition from
place to place, more or less rapid. No
recreation Is moro agreeable than travel,
and no punishment so cruel a. imprison.
msnt. And Of all sorts of locomotion,
voluntary or involuntary, none is 20 sat.
isfactory and refreshing as that which
comes from the use o' our feet The
body Ii not the only beneficiary; the
spirit, always more or loss in sympathy
with the fesh, is the principal gamer.
Never can one find 80 perfect q remedy
against the mental condition, commonly
spoken Of as the blues, as a good, vigor-
Gus walk. Again and again, when op-
pressed by that melancholy to which we
are liable at seasons, has the victim
grasped hat and stick, and, striding out
into the open air, has speedily left fths
enemy far in the rear. One can run
away from the "blue devils" in o few
minutes at any time.
The world knows all about the walks
that Dickens took, for the delightful pic.
eures be has given US are but trans
cripts Of what he found and treasured.
In forty years his daily tramps are said
tohave aggregated one hundred and forty
tbousand miles. He constructed for
himself theory that to every portion Of
The day given to intellectual labor should
correspond an equal number OF hours
spsnt In walking. Carlyle usually took
avigorous tramp Of several miles, enough
10 put him In glow before he com.
mAncsd the days labor. Macaulsy
found in walking his favorits recres.
esn. Buckle, the historian, walked both
eossnoon and afternoon, and heat or
eos1, sunshine or rain. made no differ.
snes 70 him. Kant, the philosopher, &C.
enstsmed himself TO long walk every
dsy without regard TO atmospheric con.
eisoas. Equally resoluts ia his out-oi.
Seos sxerciss was Longfellow. who
ssvse omitted his dsily tramp, though he
might 60 no further than the walls Of
h garden. Gladstone ct sighty.ons i
- most active all.round man In Ene-
had. That bodily motion facilitates
osatal activity u semething We oil know
b experience. Burns composed all his
sweetest songs at the plough. Thomp.
oeo could not compose except in the
spso cir, and Tennyson, Wordsworth.
Lander and Rousseau we're ali inspired
- thy walked.
There are Thousands OF puny creatures
h this world Of ous who have no excuse
for their inanity-thousand Of ianguid.
torpid, complaining bodies. victims Of
dyspspsia and ennui, but with half their
troubles in their brains, who, II they
would walk regularly and pleasantly in
stead Of consulting physicians and drug.
Gists, would soon flnd themselves sound,
healthy and contented men and women.
Instssd Of tossing on uneasy beds
through weary nights, they would sleep
"liks tops;" their imaginations would
clear up, their aches and pains and
dumps would Zee away, and almost be.
fore they were conscious Of the transfer.
nation, they, who had thought them
calves invslids for years. would forget.
IN the best enjoyments Of life, that any
thing had ever been the matter with
them. There are few people who can not.
b. proper attention TO the best Of physi.
cal exercises, add from ten 10 twenty.
dvs years to the average vital span. Tho
truth 70 that most persons die uncon.
cious suicides, owing to the disregard of
natures simplest requirements; not
strictly criminal, but nevertheless guilty,