A NEW USE FOR LEGS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1924, Page 1

A NEW USE FOR LEGS.

Bv Edwin Pugh, in the “Daily Mail)

During the recent railway strike quite a lot of people found a new use for their legs. Kvery day some thousands of them had to walk to and from their places of business. They bud to walk, you see—and they did. Well, if they had to walk one day, wliv not. every dav?.

Very likely they found walking a weariness of the flesh ; but that was only because they were not used to it. A week or so's practice and most of them would have found walking a pleasure instead of an exaction. Of course, there are some too old or otherwise physically unfit to whom walking could never be anything but a pain and a hardship, kef these by all means ride if possible. There are objections to walking, but I think most of them can be met Walking wastes time. You would he late at the office or works. But not if you gel up an hour earlier. When it. rains you would get wet and catch cold. But not if you wear stout hoots and a mackintosh. And if hosts of people were doing that your costume would not matter. It might even become a new fashionable crtv.c. When the weather is sultry you would get so hot you would not be fit for your work. But not it you wear light clothing and take it easy. Walking wears out your boots and with boots at the present high price. What it would cost you in boot leather -it would save you in fares. And the regular exercise might save you even more in doctors’ lees. After a long day’s toil you are too tired to walk. That: is true enough in many cases; but if those who have been sitting all day would only walk home instead of riding there would be olenty of room for others engaged in more arduous toil. Think it over. Try the experiment, if only one in three of those who ride were to walk instead, all sorts of difficulties would disappear that nowmake getting about a constant exasperation, all our traffic problems would bo solved, and an immense saving would be effected in this vital matter of transit.