WALKING FEAT OF MADAM ANDERSON IN AMERICA.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 138, 19 April 1879, Page 3

WALKING FEAT OF MADAM ANDERSON IN AMERICA.

There appear to be some feats of human endurance in which the softer and weaker sex, as it has from time immemorial been courteously called, can excel that which assumes to bo superior in every respect where muscular stiongtb is concerned. The achievement of Madam Anderson of walking 2,700 quarter miles in 2,700 consecutive quarter haurs, which was accomplished lately in Brooklyn, is without parallel in masculine effort, we believe. However expensive the strain must have been upon muscle, nerve and brain, and inevitably injurious to her functional system from the interruption of the processes of digestion, recuperation and assimilation, it nevertheless shows what a vigorous, resolute, aspiring woman can do to put into the shade of shadows such pedestrians as O’Leary and Carapana, who could not got through a week’s effort without resort to inebriation at the last, while she maintained a refined appearance throughout her thirty days of almost constant effort. Here has been a dreadful task, but she has earned extraordinary credit with those who admire such feats of human muscle, and she has made a little fortune of ' eight thousand dollars by it also.