The Washington times., 1917-03-02

old her twenty miles a dAy. NO Won
Ter she tyas handsome.
In this relation may be mentioned
a young woman who asked her ply
sician to write q prescription for a
complexion improver and was advised
as follows: "Get one pot OF rouge
(any kind of rouge) and one rabbits
foot. Bury them together two miles
from home (or from any trolley line
or other means OF conveyance) and
walk out and back Tin any and every
kind OF weather, there are only diff
ferent kinds OF good weather), wear
ling arctics or rubbers in snow or rain.
And be sure that those articles are
still where you have buried them.
Besides this go TO bed so that you
will be sure to sleep eight hours:
bathe in water as cold as possible
within comfortable limits; give your
self q good rundown after the bath;
eat three square meals OF wholesome
food, cutting out the sweets and indi-
gestible pastries, with six glasses of
water during the day; see that the
body emunctories are functionating
properly. And then you will assur-
edly have q complexion that will stop
the traffic on any thoroughfare you
choose to grace with your presence"
some precautions Needed.
Those who are not accustomed to
long walks and want to get the habit
should take some precautions. The
strength must not be overtaxed in the
beginning. In going for q days walk
on \ Sunday or a holiday there is no
harm In getting stin and wholesomely
tired: a warm bath at bedtime will
set that right But when there Is to
be a walking trip there should be no
more than five miles the FIRST day, ten
the next, fifteen the third. After
which breaking In one may begin at
daybreak and foot It until he is
canopied by the stars; and no harm
will come to him, but much good and
happiness.
The way to walk Is to throw back
your shoulders, military fashion. the
chest out, the pectorals expanding,
the nostrils dilated, the lips closed, the
head erect, the arms swinging half
way, not like a wind mill. Let the
mind be diverted by the ever changing
| scenery along the.road: there II moth
ing else that will so surely get the
cobwebs out OF ones brain.
This simple, primeval exercise is
preferable to any other, in that IL Is
not necessarily in the contestant class
of athletics. No preparations (except
as stated) are needed to be in prime
for it. In other sports-boxing. tennis
and the like-what men do not become
slower in their movements after forty,
after thirty, indeed7 Who, even the
most expert, could after fifty think of
competing with young men in them?
Little Paraphernalia Needede.
Nor is there any way better than
walking tours for middleaged gentle
men to dissipate an undistributed mid
die and to restore the belt line to
something like the normal
For a walking trip little parapher-
MALTA is required. A stout easy pair
of shoes is essential-such as have
been tried out at least a week before
hand. And the feet must be we'll nurs-
ed, bathed and vaselined, IL necessary,
at the end of the day so that they
| will not go tender. Many a walking
trip has gone to pieces the hrst day
or two by reason of blistered feet.
Talcum powder is to be busted In the
shoes IL there has been perspiration.
A real wayfarer who is not too
fussy and of reasonably democratic
tendencies cap find a good luncheon
almost anywhere on the road. Some
most agreeable recollections of this
writer are OF his seat on any con-
venient barrel in a crossroads or a
country store, crackers and cheese In
one hand, a glass Of ginger ale or
cider in the other (nothing stronger.
not II you really want to keep on
walking), spiced with discussions OF
the perversities Of our political sys-
tenn among the village coterie. Hotels
great and small, magnificent and
modest 1.-THE latter generally the most
comfortably, abound