WHY YOU SWING YOUR ARMS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 451, 25 July 1919, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHY YOU SWING YOUR ARMS.

If you watch people walk toii will note that nearly all of them move their arms. If they walk slowly f!.p movement of their arms is scarcely pcrceptiblo; if they walk rapidly their arms generally swing vigorously. Most people believe this swinging of tho arms as they walk is merely ft natural swaying motion caused by the movement of the body, just as tho tassel of an umbrella will swing when oiie is walking with it, but this is bj no means the reason. Tho swinging of the arms J.-, naL:it:;! <.i:ough, but the nature of it <! ! -wv back to the unknown day.s uln-u man was a quadruped. Of course, when man was a four* footed aminal he walked with hit '•'arms" as well as his legs, and even to day, after the thousands upon thousand; of generations that have passed since wo assumed an upright position. every time ho takes a sfwp his arms move a triHo, involuntarily, as though de.Mious of taking a steD in its turn, just as it did when man. when four-footed [non e! up and down the earth. By keeping our minds i pon if., we can hold our arms nearly motionless when walking, but let us hurry along, thinking <>f 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 dy»> j pepsia, but there is one native race j of America that is certainly not greatly troubled by the modern curse. The I sturdy lit II:? Ksrjtiimaux defy all the laws of hytrierin and thrive. Tho Esquimaux, like the ordinary dueller in America, eats until be is satisfied, but there is this difloren'o. (hat lie never i> satisfied while the shied of I ho feast re» mains "utu'it.-mood. capacity is limited by th • "i-rv. and by that only. lie cannot, make any mistake about the manner of cooking bis food, for as a rule he does not cook it, nor, so far as the blubber <>r ft of the Arclie animal is concerned, about his method of eating it; lie cut,; it into long strips an inch wide and an inch thick, and then lowers the ships down his throat as 0:10 niijit lower a rope into a well. And after !11 :i? be does not suffer | fro:" ••- •i .0 lb- can make a good j meal <.f" hj, and skin of tho wnlru-, - f >!■ ■ii .n so bard and gritty I!:'iI in cut! in;; up t!• • • animal the k*:ift* must b<> continually sliarj>« ned. '!" •• t I': of a little Ko|uin.aux e 1 - ' ■ " oJn a bit. of walrus skin • 1 I."I h 1 I ,'|II ie ' oil.ll'V child Would i' 'in 'b.. lii b 11!' an :i;-p!e, And j :hit V, bfVl I !|e hide of I• v. >!l Us is ' f: in one-balf to ' lie and a half incb"S in tliieluiess. and hears c i'i-iderab|e re.'•••••iblance to Ibe ■ ' : * 1 01 «• I■ •j• b:■ lit. The T';';„i"i I v ill hi; • j| and d' es) j', { 1. nd 111", cr km>w uhat tlvsp. > f-1 • ■ 111