Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — Benefits of Walking. [ARTICLE]

Benefits of Walking.

The best, simplest, universal exercise Is that of walking. I can walk with enjoyment for hours along a flat country and even in the parks and embankments of London, but I attribute my health and activity in my seventy-third year to the steady pursuit of climbing hills, mountains, glaciers and moors—a practice which I began in my seventeenth year in the highlands of Scotland. /since then_l have consta_ntly

worked all round the Alps, Lem Nice to the Tyrol, doing nearly all the well ktaown peaks, passes and glaciers—the Grivola In a verglas being the worst. I have walked in the Pyrenees, the Apennines and the mountains of Sicily and Greece; the Welsh, Scotch and lake hills, the moors of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Hampshire, Cornwall, Surrey and Sussex. I played cricket in my school and college elevens as bowler, nud I have enjoyed tennis, rackets, lawn tennis (which I still play), football, rowing and skating. But none equals walking. I have ridden all my life, but I find hunting, shooting, fishing and golf sheer waste of time. An Alpine glacier —even a British crag side—is worth all the stupid forms of “sport” put together.—Frederic Harrison in London News.