Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-03-21
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
INTfRESTING READING FOR THE
YOUNG PEOPLE.
Outings and Innings-A Piece of
Real Brayery-A Musical Genius
Two smart Crows-Curious ships.

1t any part Of your body is weak; ;
If your lungs tend to consumption, or
your chest is so narrow that your fam
lily physician tells you to live out-of-
doors and exercise; or even if your
chest is narrow and nobody has the
sense or forethought to tell you to go
out and eXercise-if any of these sup
positions Of mine are true, you need
some one to tell you how to exercise
TO correct that natural or cultivated
physical weakness. If you are weak
IN any one part of your body, go to a
gymnasium instructor, and he will lay
out regular course of exercise for
you, and unless you are very far gone
in any one spot, this exercise will do
you world of good. For particular
parts of the body, therefore. a gymna-
SUM is the proper thing; for general
exercise take every chance you can
find, and then, if all fail, go to a gym
naSium.
Now as to the exercise, and winter
exercise at that, of young man of
sixteen. There is nothing better than
the time-hOnored sport 1 ain going to
describe, yet Il sport that is so abused
that most of us do not know it in its
WE form.
= You have been training for the event
for at least a month. Remember that
no one should really go into the sport
that is, into a cOnteSt-until he has
trained at least one month. You have
trained in this way. Late in the after
noon, after school or business or other
hours of employment, you began, q
month ago. by running out across the
snow, across the fields, over and under
fences, for ten minutes. That is to
say, you ran out five minutes, and
came back in five. You did it slowly,
gentle jog, and you were dressed as
follows: Sneakers" thick Scotch
stockings, light pair of short trousers
without any Cramping arrangement at
the knees, and what is called
sweater" at college over the upper
part of your body. You don't need
hat. For day or two you went only
ten minutes, never stopping moment
until you got inside the house again.
Then you gradually increased the dis
lance until you were out a whole hour.
You went each and every day, unless
of course you were ill. and each day
you ran a steady jog, going faster of
course as you get into better training
towards the end of the month. Bun
always just as you came in SIGHT Of
your home. say two hundred yards
away. you Sprinted each night as hard
as you could. Now the day of the con-
test has come. During the night the
judges have marked out the course
with flags on sticks. 1t is five miles
long. and it winds around across the
country. Here is a big marsh to wal
low through. There is a 15-foOt jump
across a bank to make. Here again is
q long hill to climb, and there a thick
bit of timber to work your way
through. Finally. there is a straight
bit of road half mile long, and then
, the finish. Ten, twenty, thirty of you
Start. and the one who comes in first
wins. This is cross country racing"
one of the best winter or summer
sports in the world for boys of seven
teen or eighteen or over, but not for
younger boys. for the strain is too
great for them. OF the actual racing,
winning is interesting, and is some
thing to work for, but the training that
whole month is the real thing.-Har-
per'S Young People.