The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-13
WESTON ON
How TO WALK
Does at 68 What He
Could Not Do
at Is.

| NEW YORK, May 27.-When Edward
Payson Weston was 25 years old he
was champion walker, but he broke
his own record a few days ago, despite
the fact that he is IS. He now tells in
his own words for The Examiner how
he was able to do it:
The ability of a person to perform
unusual feats of endurance depends in
the first instance upon his possessing
proper physical constitutions; in the
second place upon his having GER
tain amount of pride and principle and
finally upon keeping these physical and
mental qualities in working condition
by avoiding the abuse of salf-indul-
gence and crookedness.
If man is to retain his physical
and mental vigor; in the spirit of the
congratClatory teregrams received by
me on Wednesday from the Rev. Alex
Irvine, If a person is TO be an odd
young man" instead of an old man. so
as to fit him at 6S for what he could
not do at %, he must not only retain
his physical coalition by a simple life,
moderation and constant exercise but
must also retain, as far as humanity
will permit, a clear conscience
Nothing is more necessary on a walk
than spirit, and who can have the right
spirit with a consciousness that he
has done dirty trick to some one?
GYMNASIUMS NOT NEEDED.
1 am a firm believer in the fact that
the Great Creator provides us with all
the necessary implements to encourage
health without the use of artificial ac-
cessories, and so, instead of being a
patron of gymnasiums, I used to frolic
on a grass plot by throwing somer-
saults, fipfiaps and handsprings
A favorite way of expanding the
chest was to place my hands on the
ground, then by resting my knees on
my elbows raise my body to a horizon
tai position with the muscles of the
arms. In this way one avoids the
chance of overstraining.
Many times I have been asked by
women, more especially while engaged
IN some task, if L was not very tired
and invariably replied: Il never was
tired in my life" but if you ask, Don't
you ever feel like sitting DOWN." then
| say, There you have me-
And in this reply I also reveal the
reason why more people do not take up
walking as an exercise.
In every effort a the start whether
it be fifty, or hundred five hundred
or five thousand mile task. from the
first to the fourth mile I am sure to be
afflicted lin my own mind) with every
disease in the calendar and after I
have gone about two miles l am posi-
tive that If l could only sit down or lie
down for five minutes | would be all !
right. All this is fancy. There is alb
nothing the matter with me.
but l am nervous. AT times both legs
below the knees have the feeling that
one has in his forearm when he strikes
MS funny bone" 1t requires all the
viii power imaginable to keep on the :,
road.
400 MILES IN DAYS
However. as L near the fifth mile T
begin to feel better and feel refreshed;
oy the time 1 have gone ten miles it
becomes interesting and when I have
gone fifteen miles a cup of hot tea in
spires me TO go on indefinitely until by
he time I have travelled sixty or seven
y miles in hundred-mile effort you
could not get me to stop unless you
shocked me down with club.
A favorite exhibition of mine in the
titles throughout England was to walk
90 miles in five days. Most people
would figure it out as eighty miles a
lay, but I always made my calcula-
ions as follows:
The first hundred miles without raet