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Show Eaie. Tl"3 Deseret NT SUP PLEME " , FEBRUARY, 1, 1892." HOW DO YOU WALK- - WHY GUM CHEWING BURIED CITIES OF NEW MEXICO. IS INJURIOUS, A stnamiker says as soon as a man comes into my shop and takes off bis fihoes I can tell whether or not he is a good walker, and it is astonishing to And how few men know the proper way step out. If the shoe is worn at the heel, not, un the .id" but straight back of thu sole shows signs of; htI weakness at the bal. of the foot, a little gretter on the inside just below the fuse of the great top, I know that the. wearer is a good walker If, however thehelis turned on one side, or is worn i venly throughout, and the sole it worn most near the toe, I know that I ' ave to dealwith a poor pedcs'rian. The reason of the difference in rosi inof the worn epo's lies in the fac. tha. the po r walker walks from nis lnre 8nd the pcoore fiom h's hip. Watch the passerby on the street and ill at once see ti e difference. yt u Nine men out of ten will bend the knee very onsiderably in walking, stepping straight out with both hips on the same line, and the toe will be the first to strike the ground. The tenth man will bend his knee very little, just enough to clear the ground, and will swing the leg from the hip, very much as the arm is swung from the shoulder, and not from the elbow. By so doing he calls upon the muscles which are strongest to bear the strain, and increases the length of his stride four or six inches The heel touches the ground first and not the toe. A slight spring is given from the ball of the footon making another stride. Men who walk in this fashion cover the ground 30 per cent, faster with the same exertion than In tbo?e who walkficm tbefer-eepugilism the old rule is to strike from the shoulder and not from the elbow. In pedestri anism it is to walk from hip the and not from the knee. Globe Irt-me- r . Demecrat. Scientific Rain-Matin- g. The Archdeacon prayed for rain last Sunday, but it hasn't come Dowler yet. Showter Next time you'd better send for the canon. Puck. :0: :0: "New Mexico and Arizona offer as Can gum ci ewing be regarded as to great a field for archaeologists as do any degree harmful? the lands where the empires of ancient The habit is unnatural. It makes no days flourished," said W. P. Metcalf , normal need, as does the cne wiug of the of Albuqureque, N. M. "An expedition cud bv the cow aBd some other ani- lef . Albuqureque only a few days age mals. Whatever is abnormal is presum- toseekfor treasure which traditions say ptively irjurious, even though we may is to be found at Gran Quivera, 100 miles uot be able to trace its eff cts. It took from that city. Before the pilgrims a ion',' time to find out that tobacco landed at PJymouti Rock there were one caused of most the fatal chewing flourishing settlements of white men diseases of Jhe heart, along the Kio Grande. Coronado in Every secretion of the body has his history of the explorations made as is natural limitation. Artificial stimul early as 1540, wrote of the seven cities ation greatly beyond this point must of Cibola, describing them as of fabulbe hurtful. This is a general law. ous wealth and magnificent beauty. Gum chewing stimulates the salivary The ruins at Gran Qaivera are believed glands vastly beyond their normal to be the ruins of one of those cities. limit, and the result must be injurious. "Coronado told of abundant gold and The constant swallowing of saliva in treasures in all of these cities, and a sort of churned state carries into the many expeditions have explored about stomach a large amount of air, which Quivera. The ruins indicatd that a becomes a source of ok en Jul an targe city stood there. The limestone olten of positive injury. It must be walls mark out the sites of palaces, remembered that air swallowed in this monasteries and churches. A curious way becomes greatly expanded by thing is that no water can be found for internal heat. fifty miles around the site of the old Muscles are enlarged by use. Wit-ces- city, although treasure searchers have the blacksmith's arm as compared honeycombed the land trying to secure with that of the scholar. Witness also a supply of water. No treasure has 'he enormous muscles of the athlete. ever been found there, but the belief Now the normal use of themasseter that it is located there antedates any muscles tends only to keep them in traditions of Mexicans or Indians. proper working condition; but their Just what prospects induced the last overuse in gum chewing must tend expedition to start out I do not to their undue enlargement and thus know." Chicago Tribune. to the disfiuiation of the face. Youth's Companion. Ni Satisfaction in Good Grammar. Some time ago a much-vexe- d point ;o: Arabas to the merits of English and Little Dot- - Ob, I just love cake; it's ian horses was decided to the lull satisfaction of those present. All Pas- awful nice. Mamma (reprovingly) You should ha, who has the finest stud of Arabian horses in Egypt, maintained that no say you "love" cake; say "like." Do English horse could run against an not not siy "awful;" say "very." Arab horse for four miles. The match Do not say "nice;" say "good." And, was arranged and run between an En- by the way, the word "just" should be glish officer moaned on a thoroughbred omitted; also the "oh." Now, my dear, and an Egyptian pasha, mounted on a repeat the sentence correctly. Little Dot I like cake; it's very pure white Arabian. The points were from the first station on the Suez Des- good ert to Cairo. The English horse, which Mamma That's better. Little Dot (with an air of disgust) was bre i by Lord Uibblesdale, won in Sounds as if I was talkin' 'bout bread a canter by one quarter of a mile. Good News. Our Little People s |