GOING FOR A WALK.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 8, 17 July 1930, Page 12

GOING FOR A WALK.

, Did it ever occur to you that an. inspiring idea, is hidden an the' hackneyed occupation of "going for a walk?" You start out With a destination in vieivrj how small rtc your singde steps in comparison with the miles they measure out, yet you add step to step; &alf consciously you cover the ground; at last you; arrive, and you have not faund the journey so long after all. Sometimes you start off tired, your steps are slow, you move languidly; ibut you have detcranined to reach a certain place, and little by little, one 'step .taken and ithen another, mere habit helping to bear you on, you reach your journey *s end. You , may even have to rest.-by the way,-but you must arrive; and so you go <>n again to find the place of an accomplished task rewarding you at last.

X We would only, carry this spirit of determination, of effort persistent,

no matter hayr slight, into our lives, ■w'htit tasks we could accomplish, what heig-hts we might attain! It is the dbing of the daily task, the step added to step, jthat accomplishes the great things. Probably you know the oftenquoted story of the scientist whoso wife was always twenty minutes late for dinner. At the cni of , a year he gave her a book which he had written in 1 those Saily twenty minutes. Next time you go fpr a wallc, notice how short is each step by itself, how slight the effort needed, -that will bring you to the Promised Land. .