The Washington times., 1923-11-19
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TO FAVOR
IN D. {.
Health Enthusiasts Join Cap
tain Rodrigues in Four
Mile Sunday Hike.

Hiking has been re-established
as popular diversion and health
bringing exercise in Washington.
Yesterdays turnout proved that
when more than 800 men and
women, boys and girls, including
representatives from Congress,
Government departments, and
practically all Of the great de-
partment stores Of the city, mo-
bilized at the zero milestone on
the ellipse, and swung off with
Captain Godfrey Rodrigues on
the first Sunday hike taken by
the Washington Health Hiking
Club
Captain Rodrigues brought
here by The Washington Times
and Washington Herald to re-
vive hiking, declared the gather
ing one Of the most enthusiastic
that ever followed him on q
health-seeking pilgrimage.
Girls Become DevOtees. :.
Hiking has made an unexpected
appeal to the city's educational III
stitutions. This was seen in the
appearance Of an entire class OF
girls from the Marjorie Webster
School OF Expression. They were
led by Miss Marjorie Webster, an
enthusiastic devotee of physical cul-
ture in all forms.
Today's hike, the first planned to
meet the convenience OF workers In
Government departments, will start
from the zero milestone at 4:45
o'clock this afternoon. Before the
start Captain Rodrigues will give
the mixers q series of instructions
in physical culture exercises TO
"Iooser1 them up'I tor the four-mile
walk to follow. The start will DC
made Immediately following these
exercises.
Each day a new route will be
taken. Yesterday the hike covered
the Mall to the Capitol, returning
to Lincoln's Memorial and ending
at the milestone. Today the walk
will carry the mixers around Wash
ington Monument and out over the
Speedway. The time consumed will
not exceed an hour and a half, the
return bringing the party back to
The milestone shortly after o'clock.
Leave Off Vests.
Reiterating his advice that wom-
en- mixers wear boomers or nickcrs
and carry wraps with them, Cap
tain Rodrfgues today urged the
men mixers. who join the party
without bringing overcoats with
them, to remove their vests and
carry them while walking,
1T is important to avoid taking
cold" said Captain Rodrigues. zone
warns up on the walk, and when 1t
ends the tendency is to stand round
and talk it over. That is the time
the additional clothing is needed.
BY removing their vests and putting
them on again at the end of the
hike, men will protect themselves
against colds
Parents having children they wish
to send on the hikes can do so with
the assurance they will be properly
looked after. The number of chill
dren attracted by the walks is in.
creasing. Yesterday more than a
hundred appeared at the start.
Government workers going on to.
days hike are urged by Captain
Rodrigues to assemble at the zero
mile stone on the ellipse pronntlv
at 4:45 o'clock. Fifteen minutes viii
be given to exercises before the
hike starts. Four new physical
culture exercises viii be taught to-
day. Before they are introduced
there will be q "once over" Of the
exercises already given. Previous
to starting Captain Rodrigues VIII
illustrate the proper position for the
body in walking.
Hikers are invited by CAPTAIN
Rodrigues to suggest proposed
routes for the coming hikes. MANY
of the mixers belong to walking
clubs and know the surrounding
country. This suggestion, it is be-
lieved, will result in many interest.
ing walks being taken during tho
time Captain Rodrigues is in the
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