The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-27
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Very few people, comparatively,
realize the value of the daily walk or
the pleasure that may be had from It.
To those who never have acquired the
habit It has no attractions; in fact,
they are apt to look upon It as rather
nuisance and waste Of time The
city presents less advantages for this
than the country, yet that does not
seem to matter. Country folk are just
as likely to be Indifferent as those shut
up among city walls and hard pave
ments. The daily walk should be just
so much a part Of the routine of life as
breakfast, dinner and supper. or
course, such advice does not apply to
laboring people such "a those whose
work occupies their muscles from
morning till night-carpenters, masons,
teamsters, surveyors, housemaids, gar
deners, or any occupation of continual
walking. But the business man, the
business woman, the student, the
housewife, should make this walk one
of their most important duties. The
need of physical exercise for such peo-
pie is obvious; they surely need no lee
turing on that score. But they do not
always realize that walking is the best
general exercise the easiest to do ana
that requiring the least effort ana
granting the most pleasure
walking brings into play, easily and
naturally. almost all the muscles of the
body. 1t stimulates respiration. which
in itself brings untold benefits. The
exercise is easy, the muscles are work.
ing involuntarily, unconsciously the
benefit is gained-because walking is
the most natural thina in the whole
world. The only effort required is that
Of the will; to get up and get out, ana
to do it rellgiously But when this is
once begun it is no longer a trouble,
but a pleasure.
The best time to walk is in the morn
ing, before breakfast, having first taxi
en- a few crackers and glass of milk,
or some such little bite" Then again
in the late afternoon or early evening.
Walks should be at lie asst two or three
miles day, though wnen beginning
this exercise it is best to walk half
mile each time for week, then a mile
for a week, then a mile and half, and
so on.
Mrs Sarah Platt Decker Of Denver
said recently that all men, as soon as
they had acquired a moderate fortune,
should retire from business and devote
their lives to the state
Then" said Mrs. Decker, politics
would be pure. Then there would be
no graft in public contracts. Every
note would count. There would be no
graft-protected crime.
"As to graft-protected crime, have
you heard the latest?
"a police captain was about to raid
gambling den. At midnight, taking his
place at the head of squad of stall
wart men, he looked them over closely,
and then said to his lieutenant:
us everything in readiness for this
raid?
Yes, sir replied the lieutenant, sa-
luting. Our arms are in first-rate or
der, here are the reporters, there are
the fashlight camera msn, and noti-
fed the proprietor of the place this
afternoon
There is now in Paris distinct rage
for painted gowns and trihes The in
ception of this fashion may have been
with several art students in the Latin
Quarter who during the summer holt
days have turned honest pennies by
painting fabrics at the dressmakers'
orders. Indeed. this painting of chif-
fon and gauzes for gowns is interest
ing work and quickly done. The aver
age woman with the decorative in
stinct should regard it in the light Of
play
As a rule the painting is done with
water colors, and in a Aelicate, trans
parent way, no opaque colors being
used The plain white of the chiffon
or other material is left for the high
lights Of the painting. A few women
there are, however, sufficiently skillful
i'm the use of tapestry dyes to use them
in the place of water coors They are
a less costly medium for painting
gowns and have moreover, the advan-