Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1918 — ART OF WALKING REVIVED [ARTICLE]

ART OF WALKING REVIVED

That More People Take Beneficial Exercise Is an indirect Result of Great War. The human race was forgetting the art of walking. Vanity had had something to do with it —and the shoemakers, who catered to vanity. For the truth was, -people were paying more attention to the style of the shoe than to the comfort of the foot. Then came the war. Whatever else they are called upon to do, soldiers have to walk. In walking, one must have shoes that fit — shoes that do not cramp the foot, shoes with flat soles and low heels. So the armies of the world provided their soldiers with shoes In which they could walk —and the soldiers found the walking easy. Seeing these millions of soldiers with good feet, properly shod and finding that they could walk for long distances without tiring, the rest of the world gradually came to adopt sensible shoes. In the fulness of time all of us may learn to walk, and when we do we shall find that we had for many years overlooked the most delightful process of locomotion that has as yet been Invented. Walking is the best exercise that has been devised, because it is the most natural. Man Is a walking animal; the process of walking involves every nerve and muscle of the body and Insures health. Men and women who walk do not suffer from any kind of disease. But z the first principle of walking is a proper shoe for the foot.. —Southwest American.