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Show ALL ILLS CURED BY WALKING That Is the Belief of New York Professor, Pro-fessor, Who Covers 500 Miles a Month. t'rof. Charles Gray Shaw, howl of the department of philosophy of New York university, who has just completed complet-ed a walk from Philadelphia to New York, ninety miles, in a little less than 24 hours, recommends walking as a panacea for all ills, mental ami physical, physi-cal, a New York correspondent of the l'ittsliurtrh Dispatch writes. During the last three months he has walked, .altogether, 1 ,(500 miles, an average of more than 500 miles a month. A little Journey of 35 or 40 miles a day he considers con-siders a mere nothing, a trot around the Mock. And for regaining mental poise, calming distraught nerves, exterminating exter-minating worry, there is nothing, take it from the professor, equal to a good long walk. He belongs to the perixi-tetic perixi-tetic school of philosophy. "Walking is the most valuable exercise in I ho world," he said. "Also It is the cheapest. cheap-est. It is one of the best ways 1 know of cheating the doctor and the undertaker. under-taker. Walking, in the first place, draws the blood from the head to the feet. Then, when one walks, there are so many delightful trivial things . to cajole one's attention' away from oneself ; the color and shape of the clouds, the Mowers and the horizon, the amusing and transitory companions compan-ions of the road. And women ought to walk more, too. Their complexions and figures would improve if they did. Most people take too short slops and walk from the knee. The farther up the body the swing comes, the less strain." |