WALKING WISDOM

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1926, Page 16

WALKING WISDOM

- You will find thick stockings better than thin ones when tramping, but moro comfortable still is a pair of silk socks, worn inside out under your ordinary ones. You won't get all the help you should from your walking stick unless it is the right height. When your stick rests on the ground (put it close to your instep) the handle should come about two inches and a half higher than the crotch of your thumb and first finger. Measure it carefully, and get a stickmaker to cut it down if it is too long, and to put on a new ferrule. ' You will probably find your feet tender when you start walking unless you aro a regular-walker. There's nothing better for this than soaping, with slightly damped yellow soap, inside the solo of your stocking. You will not rest yourself by lounging along when you feel weary. Call a halt and rest for live to ten minutes. Try, if you can, to rest with your feot propped up. You will find it horribly tiring if you have to adjust your pace to anyone else's. Find your own stride and stick to it.

You won't bo able to walk well after a heavy meal. If you are on a tramp, take your big meal at the end of the day wliou walking is over. A snack is the walker's best midday refreshment. And beware of fizzy drinks.

You will find rubber heels or crepe soles a boon and a blessing. They absorb the inevitable shock of the shoe on the hard road, which otherwise jar 3 the spine and may cause a severe headache.

Nearly half a million persons make their homes on the desert sands o£ the Sahara.