The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-04-15
WALKING IS
better THAN
MEDICINE
Exercise in Sunshine and
Fresh Air Strongly Rec
commended

eAi1s ~ VlAgty fkeG-
commended.
Editor % Telegram on my nexi
birthday I viii be 90 years cd. Dt,r1
ing the last 50 years vas not siea
lsfetl I SeS to 1898 / walked from s 10
" miles day. During the year SOS.
travelled. With horse and buggy $500
miles and ON an average wafkssl
about mile day. The result w.ts
had no appetite for IarEe meal
and lost about 10 pounds IN weight.
From 1899 to this time have been
working at several trades where q
had to walk or go ON a bicycle a,bodt
tour miles day. During the summer
months for about three days every
month I walked from 10 to Il miles
day, some days II miles. Near:S
always on those days I eat mo- dinner
and in the evening OF those days i
feel as I were only % years old. and
n can truthfnlly say that i did NOT
feed tired within the last six years
I have been Watching the habits of
many men and women, and am eoI-
WINGED that many are eating ana
drinAng too much and do not have
exercise enough. especially In walk
ing: Some years ago i knew RICH
woman IN the city that was pale ans
sickly and used med5cine whole
year: 1t happened that She changed
doctors and the new doctor told her
to go to- the country and stay With d
cousin fer at least three fiiontlis ana
take mo- innedicine, but in place 81
medicine She should walk in the sun
eeyry dag, when the sun: was shining.
and she. would try to walk every day
a little farther until at the end of the
three months she could walk ssor Il,
miles. She came back to the city wei
and cured without medicine and had
learned some common sense. Hun
dreds and thousands OF persons eonla
BE cured II they would take dails
walks in the sunshine, and not SIT In
the shade and take medicine.
In our enlightened age we try hard
to get our heads stuffed full of leara-
ing, but very often we fall TO get
some common sense things into our
heads, and the result is illness, doc.
tors bills. and death many years be-
fore our allotted time.
Moderate exercise in the fresh air
and sunshine is much better than sit
ting in the shade and reading cheap
literature. Deep breathing is anotho.
snportant thing that should be prac-
ttced every morning. have prac-
ttced deep breathing for the last
eight years and during chat time /
have caught no bad colds.
There is a tendency on the part OF
business men to apply themselves too
closely to their business They sacri4
fee their health for business success.
am of the opinion that men could
do more real business and keep wen
IL they would walk every day oaa
hour and do some real, deep breath
ing, than they can by remaining In
doors from morning until night. Many
OF our tows and cities have clubs.
and club rooms where many Of our
most prominent men spend their
Sundays. ] am fully convinced IL We
had walking clubs, and men and wo-
men would take walks in the county
or along Lehigh or South Mountain
and fanlliarize themselves with the
great number OF plants and roots
which grow on the mountain they
would be all the bettcr for it. There
is no mountain in the state that has
more medical plants and roots. can
name about so different kinds, and
there are many other kinds that ] car
not name. One thing do known b.
experience, that have been instru-
mental in curing diseases with p,ants
and roots where different doctors had
failed to do so.
Inactivity shortens life. A man Of
! so years should walk further than a
younger person. AS persons grow
old. the arteries harden. and the only,
way under the sun to prevent it Is rs
plenty of exercise. and walking is the
best. The heart cannot pump the
blood through hardened arteries, and
no physician can cure them with nief.
iclnes.
I have been lover of the hills and
streams since boyhood and always
have been a walker. AS long as ]
lived in the country spent many
days in hunting trips. Since live
in the city got in the habit Of walk
ing several days month from 10 to
IL miles ana hunt stone relics. which
were used by our different Indian
tribes several hundred years ago and
I viii never regret the time, 40 days.
and L6OO miles walking to collect s.
0Oo specimens. would like to hear
from another Lehigh county man who
collected unore and finer specimens IL
eight years.
d. y. KERN.