The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-03-02
WALKING rs FASHION
HOW HEAVY NEW WORKERS TRY TO
REDUCE THEIR WEIGHT.


Central Park a Favorite Place For Wealth
and Beauty to Walk as Well as to Ride.
Good Natured Comments on the Daily
Procession as 1t Passes BY.
Pedestrianism is quite the proper thing
nowadays. Even when the streets are
in a filthy condition, the daily constitu-
tional is quite as necessary to the aver
age man as his daily bath or his evening
of recreation. He takes stroll on the
avenue perhaps to timber up his joints
and meet his friends. Perhaps, If he is
inclined to rotundity, he does it to re-
duce his weight.
OF late Central park has been growing
in popularity among the portly class. If
you will take trip up to the big reser-
voir at almost any time of the day, you
may see any number of people of all
ages, conditions and degrees of prosper
ity plodding about the 1a-nile TRACK
which surrounds it.
The reservoir is the highest portion OF
Manhattan Island. The view from all
sides is picturesque. On the south the
city lies stretched out in magnificent
panorama as far as the eye can reach. 1t
is spot particularly adopted for the
purpose for which it was intended-the
pleasure Of the people.
Some Of the pedestrians there are sprint
ers, and do their work without regard
to dignity. Others STUNT around with
all the dignity of game cock. It is not
an uncommon sight to see a woman
weighing from 200 to 300 pounds putting
along like a slow going locomotive with
a heavy train attached, her arms swing
ing at her sides like the driving rods of
, an engine. She is out for what there is
in it. She cares nothing for the ques-
tioning looks of the spectators nor for
their unkind remarks. She has just SO
many pounds to remove per the doctors
orders, and she is trying to do it.
So regularly do these open air fends
make their appearance on the track that
the men employed at the gatehouse on
the south side in the capacity of watch
men, gatekeepers and helpers can spot
one half mile away.
"There comes Aunty So-and-so," they
comment. "What gait she has got on
this morning! See that stride! She's
| trying to break the record"
"And there is Pepper So-and-so. He's
making good time too. Wonder If he'll
overtake her before size reaches the turn?
Whew, but he's making the gravel fly!
Five pounds off III. morning sure" and
as the reducers Of flesh go flying past the
gatehouse the nCl familiarly to the men
who happen to be in sight.
"Who is this cc3ning?" asked reporter
| of the men at the gatehouse a few days
ago as he say q young woman approach
ing.
"Why, we call her Beauty" one of the
men replied. She was tall young wom-
an, fair, and with the form of Juno.
/ She was striding along on the other side
| of the lake. AS she passed the men she
nodded good morning and strobe away,
her head in the air, her shoulders back,
chest thrown forward and with 3-foot
stride. She was out for oxygen. Her
cheeks glowed with the rosy hue of per-
feet health, and her eyes sparkled like
diamonds.
''She lives ON Fifth avenue" contin.
ued one of the helpers. every morn.
ing at o'clock, if the weather is any
way pleasant, she is here walking for
dear life. But amt she 'beaut? And
she's not stuck up bit. She has nod
and smile for all of the boys. just as
you saw her then. I'll wager every dol
lar have that there isn't a man on this
/ hot 10 1o,s &c oh 10 ~,
the mood for sprinting. Look at that
stride of hers. She covers three feet
| two, I'll bet" and taking tape measure
frow his pocket he measured the marks
Of her feet after sine had passed.
81 told you so,' he exclaimed, holding
up the tape SO it could be seen. '"Three
feet two and one-half," and he grinned
with delight. Eyes, I've measured it be-
fore," he acknowledged, when accused
of it. 'You see, l take great interest
in the girl, because two years ago when
she first began coming here she looked
as if she could not live month. She
was as pale as ghost. Her chest was
sunken in, and thought she was going
into consumption. You would never
| tIllhh ~ W SCO uCl INV, OoDs w t14IO1 vi
summer she seldom misses a day except
perhaps during the extreme heat of the
summer and rainy or wet weather. Hel
father is a commission merchant dow
town. and very often he accompanies
her in her walks. Everybody likes l.,
watch her, she isso graceful and strong.
Then came man of about 80, short
and very obese. He had very lar;
head, short gray whiskers and legs thai
were no larger than baseball bats.
Morning" he said, with nod of recog-
milton. Fine air-lots of it. Three
pounds off this morning or die. Lots OF
people out Goodby," and as his spindle
shanlls, working at the rate of 100 times
a minute. carried him out of range of
hearing he was still talking. He was d
Wall street broker. He has been tryins
to reduce his flesh for year, but he is
as fat now as ever.
But here comes the hummer"
| Morning, boys, morning. Can't stop
talk. In hurry. Make circuit 90 min
utes or bust. By by" And he was out
of hearing.
He was short man, thin and about 55.
He had smooth face and was why OF
limb.
In a few MINUTES bevy of pretty girls
seminary girls-came along with their
chaperon, a young woman who looked as
1t she had but just graduated herself
She eyed the men suspiciously as much
as to say: Don't you dare fiirt witt
these girls. They are out under my care,
and ] will protect them. New York
World.
A City In Mountain.
| The city of Bantam, in Bokhara, is cut
in the side of mountain. There are
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