Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-03-12


and healthful sports, hands out a pre-
scription that he has taken for the
past seventy-one years.
If you are sick, walk to get we'll.
If you are we'll, walk to keep we'll.
No matter what ailment you may
be suffering from if you can locomote
your pedal extremities there is hope
for you This is the prescription OF
Chas. Worden the renowned pedes-
trim who was a caller at the News
office Tuesday, and who walked from
Amigo to Langlade, Wisconsin, yes
terday, distance of "a miles. Chas
Worden is one doctor who takes his
own prescription.
If the great pedestrian lives IN,
til next November he will be II years
of age. He celebrated the biblical
"Three score and ten" when that
birthday came along, by a little rs
mile stroll on the country roads.
"The only time l feel that I might
get sick is when l sit down among
lot of able bodied men who lounge
comfortably in pillowed chairs and
complain of their livers, kidneys,
their heads and their hearts.
"Why these fellows don't even
take thinking exercises. If they live
in a hotel, they have the bellboy
bring them some Postum; if they
live at home they have the missus
Or one of the Riddles go to the drug
store for a patent medicine.
Now, I want to tell all such how
to cure themselves. Just buy bot
tie of patent medicine, read your
symptoms on the folder, then put
the bottle where you can look at it,
or rub the bottle on what you think
is the affected part.
after you have done this Mr.. Bus
inessman or Mrs. BusinessWCman
or whatever you may happen to be,
start out in the open air and have
nice little walk.
Then come back and look at the
bottle again, or rub it on the af-
fected part and you will feel re-
lieved. If you will follow this course,
that one bottle will last you as long
as you have any possible use for
it, but if you open the cork and
pour the contents into your stom-
ach, and keep on doing it, the
stuff will surely put you down and
out.
Talk of Ailments Makes Him Sick
But, protested a listener, I'm
not used to walking" Get used to
it," snapped back the veteran pedes-
trian. Start now. Begin with a half
mile today. Throw your chest back.
Throw the worries off your mind,
then start to hike. If you walk 4
half mile today you will be able to
walk a mile tomorrow, and two miles
the following day.
you don't have to go out for a
record. Just take a stroll. If you
get tired on the way, rest But, af-
ter you rest a bit, get up and finish
your distance"
Were you ever sick, Mr. WOr-
dem? meekly inquired a nervous lit
tie lady who had been listening to
Mr.. Worden talk on walking.
YES" returned Worden with a
bland smile Eve been sick all my
life listening to people talk of sick
ness with the big, beautiful outdoors
around them, and a nice little walk
before them"
After Worden was submitted a
list of popular diseases he was asked
whether walking would cure everyone
Of them.
Eyes, it will cure every disease
you MENTION" asid Chas., Though l
don't call any of those maladias you
AhChCiOu ul0CooSS. CcliA LlCul
ness in one form Or another.
Now, continued Worden, How
anyone living in a beautiful country
like this, with such a climate, can
refrain from walking, l do not under
stand. This lovely country should
be the Hiker's paradise. There are
few places in the United States
where you can find finer conditions
for walking than are here generally.
Roads, scenery, fresh air, sunshine!
Um-m-!', and Chas. smacked his
lips and rhapsodied like a poet.
when did you start in to walk?
asked a bystander
when 1 was nine months DID,
replied Charles.
And you've walked ever since?
queried the interested one.
Eyes, l walked out of my cradle
when l was nine months DID, have
walked ever since and l am going
to keep on walking. They are not
going to keep me confined to a room