Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1919 — About Four Miles, Average Distance Walked by People During Twenty-Four Hours [ARTICLE]

About Four Miles, Average Distance Walked by People During Twenty-Four Hours

__ Nature intended that man should walk —properly done, it is one of the best of exercises. And most of us walk more or less; though for some of us if is regrettably less. After a careful consideration of mankind’s ambulations, including young children and old people, and the fact that nowadays we have the inclination and the facilities to ride more and walk less than our forefathers did, a fair estimate of the average distance walked during 24 hours by the men, women and children of continental United States seems to be four miles. a Casting our figures In the direction of enlargement rather than of reduction, the representative average American propels himself over a distance of 120 miles a month, 1,440 miles a year, a hundred thousand miles in the three score and ten years allotted to him in Holy Writ. He travels at a rate that woukWake him from New York to San Francisco in a little more than two years.—Scientific American.