Pedestrianism

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PEDESTRIANISM.—

We suppose there are a great many lazy folks in the world, and some doubtless who never use their nether limbs as long as they can obtain an omnibus or carriage to carry them over the ground. A male or female of sedentary habits could not fail to be vastly benefitted by a walk morning and evening, and would soon find an improved state of health the reward of this salutary exercise. Roses can never bloom on cheeks that are sedulously excluded from sunshine and the fresh air. Nature requires the free exercise of all her functions to render them sound and healthy, and therefore those who persist in confining themselves from the fresh air, and even when the opportunity offers for exercise, abandon it, through indolence or lack of energy, are sure in the end to experience the whole catalogue of evils incident to a torpid and impeded circulation of the blood, and a decay of the bodily functions.