The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-08-08
WALKING AS A PAsrIME.
1t is One of ths Very Best Ways of Spend
ing u Vacation.

Ing vacation.
This mode of travel, besides being
independent, has other advantages. No
great preparations are needed for q
trip A vacation of few days can be
utilized by a man swinging his pack on
his back, and going off into the coun-
try. Owing to the continual change OF
abiding place, in three days, it often
seems as if the traveller had been abb
sent week.
Another advantage is the light ex-
pense. In all other travelling trips the
cost of mere locomotion is great item.
By walking, the change from place to
place is made without paying any rail-
road or steamship fares, without pay
ing any expressman or hackman, and
without any unavoidable expenses
which often make the cost of the trip
a matter of anxious thought.
The greatest advantage is the tonic
effect on the body and mind. This is
due to the freedom from care, and to
the natural life-the continual exercise
in the open air, which stimulates the
appetite, and causes great demand
for food. The amount of food consumed
on one of these trips is generally three
times what is taken at home. The
stimulating action on the skin, by the
constant flushing of the pores in conse-
quence of the exercise, and the baths
required to keep one clean, bring into
state of healthy activity part OF
ones system generally neglected by
those living sedentary lives. In the
coolest winter weather often find, on
closing days tramp, that my under
garments are wet with perspiration.
J Then, too, fatigue brings good sleep
Thus with exercise, good food, free
, perspiration in fresh air, and plenty Of
, sleep, man takes natures best tonics
1t must not be supposed that these
tramps exercise only the legs and feet
l If one carries pack, the upper part O.
t the body and especially the muscles
/. which hold the shoulder-blades, arr
Z thoroughly exercised. The back ant
0 the abdomen come in for their share
/ so that when the trip is over, and ON
4 goes about without his pack, it is no
e very hard to walk erect.
If man wishes to begin the practic
, of tramping, 1 should advise him t
n take at first daily walks of at least fou
). miles. After little hardening OF tn
e muscles in this way, he should try tn
). experiment of going for the whole da
e with bag or knapsack; and, after
n week or more, for two or three days
h With this preliminary training, tn
= candidate for walking will be ready fo
e longer tramp. But, above all thing'
II let the beginner not do too much
y once. After tasting the good effects
It walking, am quite sure that II ma
le has any love for nature In his soul, an
it any admiration for the beauties
IL scenery, he will not willingly foreg
n, the pleasure of tramping whenever b
N has opportunity to enjoy it.
IN There are certain particulars in I'll
rs care of the person, both on the tram
ID and after the walk for the day is owe
es the advantages of which l was long
Sc learning. In the first place, on a lor
1e tramp, made it principle to start OF
d, early, never doing more than twen'
Or miles the first day. Walking wit
I'd novices, l endeavor to begin in Il
n. afternoon, if possible, SO as to give re
of to their weary muscles after only fe
d. hours or exercise. The third day is {
ne ways the trying one; it seems to tai
"a about seventy-two hours to get to Il
id critical point of fatigue. have nev
if known any one to pass the third da
i'll and keep on walking, without makil
Sc successful pedestrian, and every M
a who has failed in walk has failed t
ur third day.-Eugene Lamb Richards,
an Tanfttru