Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1898 — Walking Exercise. [ARTICLE]

Walking Exercise.

While people residing in the country can always obtain ample exercise by indulging in pleasant pastimes, it is different for the numerous dwellers “in busy city pen;.” to get away, and, says a medical contemporary, they consequently suffer oftentimes from dyspepsia and indigestion, and the girl from pale and blotched skins and general languor. They neglect tbe one form of exercise open to them, without either expense or trouble—a good sharp walk. Not a slow, aimless ambling, looking into shop wimdows, but a real determined three or four mile walk, in which every muscle of the body is brought into play—limbs, chest, neck and chin. Let the pale, languid, anaemic girl who feels too inert to perform the simplest daily task with pleasure or interest, begin to try it. She will find herself transformed Into a healthy girl, able to sleep soundly, to rise early, and to perform tasks she would never have dreamed before of undertaking. In fact, walking is such a simple remedy for so many of the ills that flesh is heir to, and a cure so certain to be crowned with success, that the habit of daily exercise, once established, will become a delight and a necessity.