The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-10-20
new WEIGHT RRDUGER.
FRENCH WoMEN KEEP SLENDER
By CROSS COUNTRY HUNTS.
Women in the City Would Not Find it
Difficult to Organize These Runs Out
side City Limits.

Difficult to Organize These Runs Out
side City Limits.
The health hunt is the latest thing in
society here and abroad.
The ladies of France have one meth
cd of keeping slender and this is by
cross country running. Tennis and golf,
the automobile and the bicycle all
amount to nothing as fashionable
pastime, compared with the health hunt
across country.
Cross country running is very differ
ent from cross country walking. In the
latter case one starts out with a COM
panion for long walk, which extends
over several days, and maybe weeks.
one takes hand satchel and makes
stops when weary. But with cross
country running it is very different.
The sport partakes more of the nature
of a chase. --.r- ..-..s. 49,.
Women who live on a farm or who
have country places, or who go away on
picnics, or have access to the woods of
an autumn afternoon can indulge in a
cross country chase with great deal Of
pleasure and benefit. <-..~-
A health hunt would not be SO very
difficult right in the city. It could be
organized any day and the hunters
could take a trolley to the city limits
and there start upon the hunt.
A party of health hunters took the
train out to the country near larry
town and there started upon their hunt.
They raced across country for an hour
and then raced back. The leader was
one who understood the turns and who
was able to bring them back in time to
take the train home. A stop at con-
Yenient tavern gave them such refresh
ments as they needed.
But those who run must run by rule
Iif they are going to benefit by it.. It
will not do to run until one is all out of
breath and red in the face. Such run
ming brings nothing but exhaustion and
palpitation, One must run correctly.
The person who runs In the wrong
way will have lame muscles and tired
feeling. The run will do a thousand
times more harm than good. But the
one who runs in the correct way Will
come back feeling fresh. A run over
the golf courses is nothing at all In the
way of exercise compared to good
cross country run.
Here are some of the rules for a
health hunt:
Wear easy shoes that bend to the feet,
but do not slip or rub. Before starting
be sure to ease the shoes. This is done
by rubbing 81 init them the night e.
fore. Let them be pretty well grease
soaked. This will keep out the water,
at the same time making the shoes very
soft. as +
Put on clean stockings and do not
neglect to ease the stockings also. Wet
a cake of soap and rub it over all the
spots on the stockings that are apt to
rub the shoes. 1t Is a good thing to
lightly soap the heels and the sides Of
| the stockings If they are inclined to rub
land blister. The soap viii do away
with any friction caused BY roughness
of the lining.
Wear snug, lightweight underwear and
let all hands be losse. There IS nothing
/ quite as good as thin sweater. 1t hugs
the neck just tightly enough, while it
does not injTe the waist and it in no
way prevents one from exercising. 1t
absorbs the perspiration, and it is pref
ty, for the cross-country hunter must
not forget her looks. She must look
nice as well as feel comfortable.
The skirt can be good length for city
wear. The ankle length is very good,
and its color can be dark or light just as
one prefers. The hat should be very
| light in weight and of the kind that will
stay upon the head. f..
The best time for the cross country
run is in light rain. This lays the dust
and makes the air pleasant.
The runner should learn how to run.
Don't run as though one were racing,
all doubled up, with the lungs cramped
and the stomach laid in folds. This is
very apt to give one the athletes indi-
gestion. Run in an erect way, take the
| fences easily and without doubling up,
If one cannot leap them, why climb
over them. Don't rush, but run gently
onward in a sort Of dog trot which will
get one there in the long run.
| The Japanese runners, who pull the
| little carts in which the tourists ride,
can run easily twenty miles and many
of them can make the return journey
almost without stopping. They run
with the legs holding the body erect.
They do not double up and cramp the
organs of the body.
| While running keep the chin up and
| the head back and the shoulders
squared. If possible, take deep breaths
into the lungs. Don't get out of wind.
After-one gets used to running 1t Is no
harder to walk on a run than to walk
slowly. The little running jog trot is
very easy to learn and very easy to
keep up., ~~$=.
One can trot for an hour as easily as
one can walk. ILL.,
AS a preliminary, to running practice
deep breathing. Stand by the window
| if one has a pure air window-ar1d take
deep breaths. Fill the lungs full, and
throw back the shoulders. It is the
i, very finest exercise for the lungs in the
world. r.- %
For reducing the weight the cross
country health hunt is the best thing
that ever was. There is nothing that
compares to it in any way. =
But here is one caution, Do not run
across a marshy country nor where the
air is filled with the pollen of flowers,
which carry the germs of hay fever.
| Choose clear air and let the day be
cool and cloudy. il possible. Brooklyn
Eagle.