WHY YOU SWING YOUR ARMS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 708, 30 September 1914, Page 3

WHY YOU SWING YOUR ARMS.

If you watch people walk you will note that nearly all of them move their arms. If they walk slowly Mie movement of their arms is scarcely perceptible ; if they walk rapidly their arms generally swing vigorously. Most peopje believe this swinging of the arms as they walk is merely a natural swaying motion caused by the movement of the body, just as the tassel of an umbrella will swing when one is walking with it, but this is by no means' tli9 reason. The swinging of the arms is natural enough, but the nature of it d rites away back to the unknown days when man . was a quadruped. Of course, when man was a fourfooted aminal he walked with his "arms" as well as his legs, and even to-day, after the thousands upon thousands of generations that have passed since we assumed an upright position, every time he takes a stop his arms move a trifle, involuntarily, as though desirous of taking a" step in its turn, just as it did when man, when four-footsd, pranced up and down the earth. By keeping our minds rpon it, we can hold our arms nearly motionless when walking, but let us hurry along, thinking of something else and our arms still swing, proclaiming our descent from ancestors who walked on four limbs that kept time together.

DYSPEPSIA PROOF. Much is said about American dyspepsia, but thero is one native race of America, that is certainly not greatly troubled by the modern curse. The sturdy little Esquimaux defy all the laws of hygieno and thrive. The Esquimaux, like the ordinary dweller in America, eats until he is satisfied, but there is this that he never is satisfied while the shred of'.the feaet remains unconsumed. His capacity is limited by ths supply, and by that only. He cannot make any. mistake about the manner of cooking his food, for as a rule he does not cook it, nor, so far as the blubber or fat of the Arctic animal is concerned, about his method of eating it; he cuts it into long stripß an inch wide and an inch thick, and then lowers the strips down his throat as one might lower a rope into a well. And after all that he does not sufferfrom indigestion. He can make a good meal off tho flesh, and skin of tho walrus, provision co hard and gritty that in cutting up tho animal the knife must be continually sharpened. TII9 teeth of a little Esquimaux child will meet, in a bit of walrus skin as the teeth of an ordinary child would meet in the flesh of an apple. And that when the hide of the walrus is from ono-half to ono and a half inches in thickness, and bears considerable resemblance to the ckin of an elephant. The Esquimaux child will bite it and digest it, too, and never know what dyspepsia mea.n3.