Show lr lloy A gentle gentleman man experimented with bia his boy of 9 years who waa was out of school and in a community affording space and attractions for rambling he purchased a pedometer an instrument for measuring distances walked on the principle of the cyclometer used for measuring the distance traveled in a buggy or on a bicycle this ho heinan managed aged boget to get into the bottom of the tho boys pocket among the marbles nails twine knives and other bric a brac there collected its additional weight waa was not noticed for a few days and in that time it did its work the first day the instrument registered 01 miles and the boy was at the table for every meal ineal the second days record was 10 37 3 7 miles the third a rainy day at the fourth 9 8 17 the family were astonished at the result and thereafter when any one complained of a walk of a mile or BO so nobody pooh pooped louder than bob dob one other noticeable result was that bob got liia his monthly pair of abea without the usual lecture on the sin of wearing them out so fut youths companion |