Walking as a Cure=all.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 July 1910, Page 4

Walking as a Cure=all.

HKOII'K KOI? iIKAf/HI f?V YKTKK.W OK 71. Edward I'. "Weston. the famous American veteran of seventy-one, who has just completed a 3500 miles walk, declares that walking is the best, of :tll exercises for those who wish to kocp fit and strong. _He believes in remaining a "lightweight.," .and himself weighs less Mian ten stone. "Walking is the thing to cure anything and to make us real people. 1 lie states. "Po you think we could ■ interest New York women in walking " They are the best-looking girls in the world, but they do not get enough exercise." West oil walked lo} miles, on an average, each day. His food consisted of eggs, milk, .sugar, bread, suet pudding, fruit, griddle calces anil |>ie. "When you're taking porfw-i exercise,' 'he says—"and walking is that you can oat almost anything in reason and digest it perfectly— pies, cakes and puddings included." Sugar lie believes to be the secret of energy. "How many people know," he ■asks, "that Undo Sam send« his soldiers in the Philippines a couple, of million pounds of candy every year? That sustains their energy." AVos'ton at:> from twelve to eighteen eggs a day. fie gives the following receipt l fo'i' tender feet : — "Got some rockcalt--the kind yon use to freeze ice cream. Dissolve a. handful in a tjiinrt of boiling water "Whe.ii it is all dissolved :uld five or six quarts of cold water, and put it in a basin under your bed. ' Let it reach the temperature, of your room. "When you go to bed bathe your feet in it. "Wipe thorn dry, and bathe them with extract, of witch hazel. T-et this dry on." "This also cools your head," lie adds. "Yon do not dream, and you arc nsioep almost beforo you get between the sheets." For rheumatics, he concludes, walking is a certain cure.