Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1911 — Walking Safe and Sane. [ARTICLE]

Walking Safe and Sane.

Taking it for granted that your heart is sound and normal, eight or ten miles’ walk a day can only do a young man good; is the safest, sanest, best of all exercises, especially If the walker uses his powers of observation and thought on the way to cheer up and freshen brain, heart, appetite and nervous system. Forced long tramps for the mere glory of the thing; are N. 0.; are sometimes positively injurious. Walking should always take the form of a gay. excursion, and not a stunt—where possible. Such walks are unusual these days, but long ago were everyday affairs, like hunting and sparking' One thing today is different; the roads are much harder; you know, in the old days there were no asphalt streets, gravel roads or other nongiving foot and leg killers. Every man ought to take one or two long walks a week and he ought to have three or four pairs of gdod shoes just for that purpose, so that while he is breaking in and softening up a new pair there are a couple of easy pairs to fall back on. Walking does not hurt the heart, and if there are no baggy veins or vein bags, walking hardly ever hurts a man.