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Show I WALKING FOR HEALTH. Recommending walking as a cure of I most of the ills to which humans arc heir. Haskln offers this advice. No doubt if we were not too lazy lo walk, all of us who are still fairl sound organically and have the use of both legs, could walk I ourselves into health- and keep our selves there. It is a prime cure for constipation, which Is the source ot about half the troubles of civilized man, and it insures large doses of fresh air. the lack of which Is the source of most of I his other ills. But walking Is a habii If you have it. ou will walk in spite of everything and if you haven"t it, it takes a good deal of effort to get started. Most of us, too, think that if we walk a mil or two a day we are doing well; but, as a matter of fact, that is not enough to do an good Ten miles is only a fair day's walk, and five is the least that will do much for your health. And if you aspire to be I considered a walker. ou f-houlrt step off your five miles in an hour and a half at the most. A five milk walk two or three times a week to keep In form, and a 20 or .'o mile walk on the week-end is Ibbbbbb about right for a modest begin H nine, according lo the beM au- h The average business man who should indulge In hikes does no walk ing which he can avoid. The automo bile Is making men less capable of talking Ogden should have a club devoted to hiking and no time ot year is more H lavorablc for an organization of that I kind than winter when people are bo disposed to house up and afflict them helves with the impure air of the home or store that is so conducive to cold. H Golfing ha? a charm for those who H play the game and can nfford the H puaeure. It Is an outdoor game which brings a diversity of enjoyments, but hiking Is a pastime and a health giver denied no one who has the physical strength to move about In the winter time there are beauti fl ful spots to be visited by the hiker ana in spring ana summer idc ueugni? i I of strolling are unlimited. There are hundreds of men in Og den, sitting In stuffy rooms seeking entertainment in the company of each other, who would be greatly b aefite 1 mentally and phyrically, if they were drawn out to the open air by a club of hikers. BBBBBBBBBBB1 . |