Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-08-09

Vacation Health Rules
Walk, But Don't Overdo 1t, Is One of the First.


haste after visit from the hotel ply.
stefan, who had treated her for a oil
ious attack. I found her red with in
dignation.
"That doctor is an impertinent fell
low she cried, and l want you to tell
the proprietor that | insist on his
sending for some one else to treat me-
What did the doctor say?' In
quired.
He told me ate entirely too
much rich food-just as if didn't pay
for all ate'
She couldn't be reasoned with.
"Overeating is one of the commonest
causes of trouble at summer hotels
among women who are past their first
youth and spend all their time inertly
on the piazzas and in driving and
sleeping. On the whole, however,
such women don't give us as much
trouble as guests who go in for long
walks and refused to be satisfied with
anything short of climbing every
peak within miles of the hotel
Il have known women who never
dream of walking more than few
blocks in the city and who the minute
they reach our hotel start out to
climb mountain in high heeled ties
and openwork stockings. / have
known others from the start deter
mined to walk a given number of
miles day.
"a frail looking city girl arrived
last season brimming over with en-
thusiasm at the prospect of training
up to ten miles day, like her English
cousin, who thought ten miles Just
pleasant little saunter. Fortunately
this girl dressed the part when she
went mountain climbing, wearing
stout fiat heeled shoes, flannel bloom
ers and short skirt without frills.
mo. she never did her ten consecu-
tive miles, and at that every few days
she had to take to sofa and rest. At
the end of eight weeks she went home
thinner than when she came.
Il could fill book with the fool
hardy exploits in the water and on
land of the women at our hotel, and
it would make interesting reading for
any one but the proprietor"
At this juncture the housekeeper
put on her hat and went off to buy her
railroad ticket, and the reporter sought
the Office of Dr. Edward Wallace Lee
and put this question:
I'm your opinion should a woman
who goes to spend a months vacation,
a woman of affairs, say, who is tired
mentally, if not physically, spend
some time every day walking, or is it
wiser for her to stay in hammock
most of her waking hours?"
Walking may be called the uni
versal exercise" the doctor began. 1T
is certainly the most healthful know
of, and a woman who doesn't improve
in health by taking judicious amount
of this sort of exercise every day, and
who can't enjoy walking, has some
thing radically wrong with her. Ham
mocks have their uses, but ! would
not advise a woman who is in normal
condition, no matter how tired she
may be, TO spend most of her vacation
in one whether her vacation lasts
only two weeks or two months, or
longer.
Persons who don't walk any during
their vacation will undoubtedly gain
flesh or, rather, should say fat, but
they won't gain muscle and strength,
and every woman ought to cultivate
muscle instead of fat. If most women
would walk Systematically every day,
winter and summer, they would be
better off
Walking promotes every normal
function, the function of respiration
in particular. The main benefit some
persons derive from sea voyage is
not due, as they imagine, to inhaling
big doses of pure air, but to the cir
cumstance that they walk the deck so
much.
Lying in hammock one can
breathe quantities of fresh air, but
during a brisk walk, in addition to
breathing fresh air, perspiratfon is
started which helps eliminate effete
material. The trouble is that some
people when they start in to walk for
health while on an outing are apt to
overdo 1t.
"A woman entirely unaccustomed to
the exercise may accompany some one
who can easily do two or three miles
without getting tired, and in trying to
keep up with her companion will come
back used up and disinclined to repeat
the attempt.
ITO my mind one Of the best health
rules for vacation time is this: Walk
bit every day, but never walk TO the
point Of extreme fatigue.
AT the start, If more than half
mile makes one feel tired, don't walk
a step further than half mile. The
next dag the walk will probably be
extended trife further and the day
following a trihe further than that.