Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — Kansas Hiking Clubs on Long Trudge [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kansas Hiking Clubs on Long Trudge

rOPEKA, Kan.—if walking is good exercise for the city man on Sunday,. why is It not good for him on any other day of the week? That Is a question which not less than twenty hiking clubs are considering in as many Kansas towns. Golf and automobiUng are threatened by this new system of exercise. Edward Payson Weston when he walked through Kansas a year or more ago started the idea of hiking clubs among the business men of the towns and cities. In forty or fifty towns clubs were formed to go on walks on Sunday morning. Sunday was choadn because ,it was the only day the buslneM'men could devote to exercise. Now they are plan-' ning in several towns to make two or three hikes each week. An early morning walk and a fried chicken breakfast five or six miles out In the

country Is something to think about The business men organize a walking club, the Peripatetic club or the Weston Wabblers or something Hk* that, and select a captain. It Is the captain’s business to pick out the road over which the hike will be made on Sunday morning and notify his company. Another of his duties Is to have a conference with Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith or Mrs. Brown, who happens to Uve five or six miles out on the road selected, and arrange with her to have ready a steaming hot breakfast of fried chicken, brown gravy, biscuits and alfalfa honey at seven o’clock. Usually the price for such a ■Sunday morning breakfast out In the country Is SO cents a plate- ' ~ ? During the last summer the farmers* wives who have prepared these feasts for the hikers have been astir early. They watch down the road for the column of walkers to dune over the hill, and then they take the biscuits and fried chicken out of the oven. The table is always set when the men arrive, and it Is the evidence of every Kansas woman who has entertained the hikers that they are hearty eaters.