Show BRISK WALKING A URI NOR UL 1301 DILall I 1 ILLS L L truly this Is a day of fads but none so sensible or beneficial as the walking fad which society in every degree has now adopted remarked a prominent physician says the wash ington post there is nothing like the open air and an d people are now beginning to rea lize this there are always alays a number of people who seem happiest ahen a they go about with long faces and sour looks and are ever ready to tell you in doleful tones that life is not worth the living if you will observe these are the people who wear heavy over shoes wrap up to their eyes in woolen clothing and buy a variety of patent medicines much of which could be dispensed with by suitable warm cioff ing and a good brisk walk every day walking Is an ideal exercise and apart from the great benefit derived from the action of the muscles brought into play by the movement of the legs and arms the mind too is helped by this wholesome practice it Is only natural to suppose that the brain tires of monotonous sur soundings roun dings the same scenery the awful sameness of things all soon palls upon one and the result is frequently fatal certainly accountable to a large degree for many nervous disorders when the antidote for many of the so called bodily ills could be found in a short walk through a pretty park in walking the mind naturally be comes diverted and so interested in things other than one ones s own tunes and at once the attitude changes to one of cheer again walk ing is one of the greatest stimulants of thought take for instance our greatest thinkers orators actors in fact all literary people and you will discover that they were and those of to day are all great walkers in walk ing one gathers incident and il lustra tion fresh and full of actual detail and when the author or orator pictures a thing in this living fashion he im mediately carries conviction with him and a nd so furnishes the secret of his success while from a physical stand point there is nothing that will as quickly induce a free circulation of the blood or so reduce fl flesh e sh as a good walk alk and it is much safer than starving for not infrequently does mrs burden become mrs gray through the means of an unwise and unwholesome diet in her desire to obtain a sylphlike figure walkin the fresh pure air and breathe proper ly ng the air through the nostrils that the lungs may become filled and the panacea will be found tor for many bodily ills and vexations of the day |