MAKING WALKING EASY

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 88, 8 January 1926, Page 13

MAKING WALKING EASY

HOPPLES FOR PEDESTRIANS. London, December 19. The novel sight of a stout business man wearing elastic hopples, and walking smartly in Londou streets bewildered spectators. The explanation is that the wearei was using a young naval officers invention for the purpose "of facilitating pedestrian locomotion.” , , ~ , The inventor claims that Hie us:' ol the hopples accelerates walking and running by 25 cent, for the expenditure ol the"snrae amount of <.-ner;»y. It would similarly increase th< range of the soldier’s day’s march, would enable aged people and invalids to take n useful eonstitutional. and would assist nostnrm. sandwiehmen and messengers, but if used bv malefactors, the police would be forced to adopt it. If it were used in (hr* London-Brighton walking race (47 miles), it would save ball an hour. The inventor hopes to arrange for n test to he inad" in I’’ o ra ''< > - Various people, including women, arc snlisfnetorilv using the inv-ntinn. \ middle-aged 16-slone man. who usna ly l:-.m<od astonished Ins nembbouts bv o-erfaking them when walking to the station. He says thnl he sores four minutes in 11 mil's nnbdl. and neither I)P T«rdres nor bee.-mies to-eiitbless. •' n indifferent un'vers'lv ntlilcle. r.-in- tin cbi'-fic. C"t-re<l in n race in "bi'di Dm-o wore ‘>l competitors and ran second. He reached Hie post with such imnctm: that he required 15 yards ; n which to pull up.—Syduey "Sun” Cable.