WOMAN'S ENDURANCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1332, 9 January 1912, Page 9

WOMAN'S ENDURANCE.

ATTEMPT TO WALK 48,0(10 MILES IN FOUR YEARS. A walking tour of 48,000 miles round the world in forty-eight months is the task which the "Kelsey Kids" iMr. ond Mrs. Harry Humphries), of New Yμ k, havo set themselves. They started fiom New York in July of Inst year, and had in November toured 1000 miles of the United .States, 1500 milw of Canada, 275 miles of Labrador, and 1100 of Newfoundland. "With his wife, a fair, fluffy-haired woman with a bright, laughing face, Mr. Humphries arrived in London nn November 22. "The round-the-world, walk is for a wager;" said Mr. Humphries. 'AVo am to take no money except for Mjuvenir prf.tcards of ourselves. Wo must rot accent rides, and will receive .£2OOO from the 'Polo Magazine' on our return if the journey is completed according to the terms. "The tnur is really the tost of <\ woman's endurance, for a similar font lias never bi'tn attempted by a woman. My wifo is standing the strain of Hio journey splendidly. Wo aro practically vegetarians, liut sometimes wo linve been hard pressed for food."