Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-07-17
WALKING FOR HEALTH
A Form of Exercise That viii Cure Many
His.

Walking as cure for malaria has
not been as much exploited as 1t de
serves to be. The malaria sufferer IL
too apt to sit indoors and brood, or al.
most as bad, lie down and doze, when
he should be stroliiDg in she fresh air
even IN wet weather. Obstinate cases
of malaria that have withstood the
onslaughts of quinine and sea air and
mountain air have yielded to system
attic walking, and the best investment
for the suffered from pains and aches,
drOwsiness, blueness, moods and morbid
fancies is rain coat or short water
prOofed skirt and coat, a sensible hat,
stout. high-laced boots and feather
weight OvershOes. Don't wait for the
weather to clear or to settle. St.
Swithin has put his ban upon US
Wrap ut warmly and go out. If you
wear flannel next to your skin, protect
your feet well and keep your mouth
closed. The dampness won't aggravate
even rheumatism or sensitive sore.
throat, and the air and exercise will
do your nerves and headache and blues
a world of good.
Walking as a cure is as great as anti
toxin or DR.. Koch Is lymph, but it does
not seem to be as we'll known. A man
who says he ''takes an interest in ev-
erything on top o. ground" says that
he used to meet almost daily "a very
pale. detected, melancholy-looking
young man. He walked along without
seeming to notice anybody or anything,
and was evidently a desperately sick
man. As his clothes were plain, though
decent enough, 1 judge him to be la
boring man of some kind, and felt a
great sympathy for bis condition. He
was evidently not able to work, but
looked as il he could not afford to be
idle.
''By dint of persevering inquiry
among neighborhood policemen found
out that the poor fellow was really in
a critical state of health-he had had
q sunsrroke the year before. and it had
left him with some brain affection.
Doctors had not been able to help him,
but he had learned for himself that bis
nerves were most quiet when
be Was walking. So be walked, walk
ed, walke6-every day-at least three
times day-Often long after nightfall
and all over the city. At home be
merely sat silent, brooding, holding
bis poor tormented head in his hands.
No one spoke for fear of distressing or
shocking him. A faithful sister sup
ported him by sewing. A pathetic story,
isn't it?
"For several years, | am told, this
walking man, as the school boys called
him, kept up his compelled exercise.
Then I missed him. Fearing he had
died, again made inquiry, but the
new policeman knew nothing of him.
The other day-in another part of
town. Was rejOiced to see the walk
ing man-hale and heartY-on a street
corner chatting with other men. |
waited for chance to speak with him,
and he told me that he was sound and
well walking had cured him.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
1.-THE blood is the lIfe." Science has never
gone beyond that simple statement of scrip
ture. But it has illuminated that statement
and given it a meaning ever broadening
with the increasing breadth Of knowledge.
When the blood is "bad' or impure it is not
alone the body which suffers through dis
ease, The brain is also clouded, the mind
and Judgment are affected, and many an evil
Iced or impure thought may be directly
traced to the impurity of the blood. No one
can be well balanced in mind and body
whose blood is impure. No one can have a
wholesome and pure life unless the blood is
pure Foul blood can be made pure by the
use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
When the blood is pure, body and brain are
alike healthy and life becomes daily hap
piness.
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