People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — The Best Exercise. [ARTICLE]

The Best Exercise.

Running is the great beautifler of figure and movement. It gives muscular development, strong heart action and free lung play. The muscle comes where it ought to be, the shoulders go back, the loins hold the trunk well balanced, and the feet take their correct positions. It was running which made the Greek figure. The more active tribes of the American Indians have been runners from time immemorial, and from the chest to the heels they are much more beautifully built than the average white man. Running people have usually the firm but elastic texture which is the beauty of flesh.