The Value of Walking.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1894, Page 4

The Value of Walking.

A doctor says : — "No pxercisequals walking as a health giver and life saver. I don't suppose London has a thousand citizens who can walk twenty miles a day. An<l ver over adult ought to be abl r<» do 8". Pedestrianism renews every part «>f the body. Try it, nor as a nfceßsity, but as an exercise. Get out f>veiv morning and walk. Your iVet should be shod with care Wear good Eng li"h walking shoes or old fashimie ( Army brogans Be sure and have room in the shoes for «*ach to» to perform its functions, and see that, the shoes do not slip at tho heel WVar thick woollen stockings, and pee that they do not crease or bind. The fout strikes the ground on an averago 2000 times in every mile, and a fold in the stocking no thicker than a horse hair will cut into the skin dur intr a long walk For a person unac cus'oraed, let tlip first walk bn threw or four miles leisurely taken. Add a half-mile every other dav. Keep i< up for three weeks, and you will l>n able to walk twenty miles a dav easily and without fatigue. You will see the difference in the muscles of your limbs, will feel stronger in the back and neck, and your mind will do its best work. These walking exer ciees are especially fitted for persons of sedentary habits of either sex — 'pach^rp, typp-writers, printers, hook k epers. ministers, bankers, pbybiciacs, and all.