Evening star., 1942-01-05

M. AeLenore. OF the ADULTS IN
this country admitted they did no
walking apart from what was neces-
sary for them to do to get their
work done and keep from getting
fired.
With the automobile, bicycle, pogo
stick, Irish mail and scooter soon to
be taken away from them because Of
rubber rationing, Americans are go
ing to be forced to get down to earth,
so to speak, and use their feet for
transportation.
This Is q dread prospect for many
Of us, grant you, but we might as
we'll begin preparing for that day
when we won't be able to waddle to
the garage an sink back exhausted
behind the wheel Of our cars or
wobble to the street and hail taxfs.
I already have enrolled in my
friends school Of walking. The day
my tires give out and the old bus
sinks wearily to its rims, I don't
want to be marooned in my house
because I had thoughtlessly forgot
ten to re-learn the act of moving
along under my own power.
am going in the school as a
freshman, and I was lucky to get in.
I barely passed my entrance exami-
nations.
These were conducted on q strip
Of city sidewalk and were very Sc
we're. No leaning against buildings
was allowed, no fake tying Of shoe
strings in the hope of catching a
little rest was countenanced, and it
was considered cheating to have q
dog on leash pull you along.
Under the stern eye Of an in
structor I made five blocks before
showing distress. Then, all Of a
sudden, all the miles I had ridden
in cushioned automobile seats, all
the miles I had covered in elevators,
and all the hours had spent sitting
down caught up with me. My calves
bleated like doggies caught in snow
storm. My tibia nudged my fibula
and together they whispered to my
femur, Whats going on here?
This mans walking" Ny insteps
appealed to my arches for help and
my knees begged for succor.
The instructor had to call q cab.
Exhausted as was by the ordeal
OF covering five blocks on foot, I
still thrilled to my accomplishment.
1t gave me great feeling Of salts
faction to know that the effort
Mama went to when I was II months,
going on, had not been in vain.
She had taught me soundly appar-
emily, and all the luxuries of the
machine age had not been sufncient
completely to destroy my ability to
navigate all by myself.
In addition to classes for adults.
there will be classes for children.
Children will be taught how to walk
to school and not have to depend on
being dropped at the front steps in
the family car. They will be taught
how to go to the movies and call on
their girl friends without mechanical
transportation.
The School Of Walking will be CO.
educational, of course. Housewives
who haven't walked to the corner
grocery in IS years will be gradually
conditioned to such narrowing trip
on foot. Women who now scarcely
can make 1t around . bridge table
to empty the ash trays will be
gently instructed until they find
themselves able to walk as far as
the front gate to meet their hus-
bands coming home from work.
Women who have found 1t trying to
get along without at least three con-
veniently located telephones IN the
house will be able to climb the
stairs to answer one.
The only thing holding up the
opening OF the School Of Walking is
q scarcity Of teachers. Many have
applied for positions only to balk
when they learned the school was to
be located at point four blocks
from the nearest bus and street car
stop, and that they would have to
cover this distance on foot twice a
day.
Now, II can only get a cab to get
this over to the telegraph ONCE.
everything will be swell.
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