Peripatetics.

BY HOWARD CROSBY, D.D.

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THE most natural, the most healthy, most attractive, the most frugal, the most ready of all exercises is walking. Nature has made the body's locomotion on its legs a thorough movement of all the bodily organs, stimulating them all with new life and driving off the evil humors from each, a method open to all to use, however small their pecuniary resources. Only let it be walking and not sauntering. Carry the head erect, expand the chest and drink in the pure air, and move briskly enough to secure your end. Let the eye turn from one object to another, and not be fixed on the ground in contemplation (that sort of thing is for the saunter); note the beauties or deformities of the landscape; take a companion with you if you can, to whom you can refer your opinions on what you see and from whom you can receive suggestive thoughts in return; stop at times and sit upon a rock or fence both for rest and for the enjoyment of some striking scene, and let not the pleasure be turned to weariness by any overstraining for the name and fame of fast walker. Such is the normal and I presume Adamic method of bodily exercise, against which we have arrayed the conventionalities of a money-worshipping society.

To those citizens who can spare a week or more in the summer let us recommend the pedestrian journey as a renovator of body and mind. With the physical exercise may be joined geological or botanical or geographical or historical investigation, and the delighted mind will help the body to its rejuvenescence. Or, if you are an artist, you can use your sketching power on mountain or stream, and so provide memorials of your tour. The scheme is simple in its general outline, but what about details?

Well, thus: 1. Wear a pair of old shoes. Some inexperienced walkers think they are doing a wise thing to get a pair of new socalled walking-shoes, which are apt to be of very thick soles and very stout leather. The weight and stiffness of these new brogans soon take down their pride by a literal subduing of the flesh. Your best plan is to take a pair of your ordinary shoes that you laid aside some months ago because they were too shabby for city use. Your feet know them and feel at home in them. The shoes and feet have not to learn any details of mutual harmony. The shoes should be high enough to prevent sand or gravel getting in between shoe and foot.

2. Carry a cane, which may be either rod or staff, as occasion may require. It should be a stout one, and should have a crooked handle, both for ease in carrying and for use as a reacher. 3. If you are going to walk on a frequented

| route, or expect to strike such routes, send your valise on by express to the place you expect to reach on the second night. Walk the first two days with no change of garments, roughing it to this extent. Treat the next biduum in the same way.

4 Choose a cheery companion. It is the salt of the dish.

5. Make ten miles before dinner and ten after dinner. Don't try to see how far you can walk in a day. You would thus defeat the main end of your trip. Rest two hours in the middle of the day, one hour of this being after

dinner.

6. The rate of three and a quarter miles an hour is quite sufficient for the average man. This would give a little more than six hours' walking a day; an hour or two more and twenty-five miles a day might not be too much.

7. A long experience in such trips has proved that there are no inconveniences which a man of the least toughness cannot bear with pleasure, even if the journey be through a wild district. An ugly dog now and then is the most interference one meets, and towards him you are not to use your cane, but, if you see that he is not to be coaxed, stoop as if for a stone to throw at him, and nearly all dogs will fear you and run.-From "How to Spend the Summer" (Christian Union extra).

Oxygen!

A MT. DESERT PASTORAL.

A trifle offered by Lampy without comment, as an example of the effect that a bracing atmosphere can produce upon conservative natures.

DRAMATIS PERSONE.

MISS ALICE BUNTING, of Philadelphia, ætatis 21 yrs. 6

mos.

MR. ARTHUR FLANNELSHIRT, A. B., LL.B., of Boston, ætatis 26 yrs. 3 mos.

SCENE I.-Mt. Desert. Corridor of Rodick House. Hour, 10.30 P.M.

arm.

Enter Miss BUNTING and MR. FLANNELSHIRT arm in Her dress is a blue and white boating-suit, cut short. A hat with a huge brim and draped with a large red handkerchief is perched on the back of her head. He is attired in a gray shirt of flannel, a pair of patched pantaloons, a scull-cap, and canvas shoes. He is smoking a pipe. She pauses at Room 20, and taking a key from her pocket gives it to him. He unlocks the door. She goes in and returns with a small pitcher.

ALICE.

AND now, good-night. But ere you go, do get me, As usual, some hot water from the kitchen.

ARTHUR.

Give me the jug, and in half a jiffy

I will be back. (Runs down the corridor.)

ALICE (shrieking after him).

Be sure that it is boiling!

She goes into her room and shuts the door. Interval of five minutes. Re-enter ARTHUR, with the pitcher of hot water and a plate of hard crackers. He knocks, and she puts her head out.

ALICF.

What made you take so long? But O, how lovely,
To bring me some hard crackers too! Just toss me
One from the plate and see if I can catch it.

He does so, and she, emerging from the room, tries to catch it in her mouth. The cracker falls on the ground. They both stoop to pick up the pieces, and bump their heads.

ALICE.

You horrid thing! You stupid, awkward creature! She playfully flings the bits of cracker at him.

ARTHUR.

Come now, it's much too early to retire.
Let's go and eat our crackers on the staircase;
It would be sort of weird. Say, don't you think so?

ALICE.

!

Why, yes. I think it would be quite romantic! You really can't imagine what a comfort It is to have no matron to annoy one, To dog one's steps and harp on what is proper A girl that's civilized don't need a matron. Thank Heaven, father let me come without one. He kicked at first, but by judicious treatment I brought him round. I'm ready now, if you are. They proceed to the staircase and sit down on the top stair, with the water-pitcher between them.

ALICE (munching crackers).

O, ain't this jolly, it is so informal!
Why, only think, we two set out together
At nine this morning to explore and ramble.
We've spent the day together on the mountain,
And never parted once.
The heat of noontide

Found us companions still, and evening's shadow
Saw you and me without a person near us.
Where else, but here, could we do this without
Exciting comment ?

ARTHUR.

Nowhere, sad to mention. In Boston, where I live, if I should happen To walk twice with some fascinating creature I should dead certain be reported smitten,

Engaged, and when that turned out false, rejected. But here, to pass the day with whom you want to,Pass two days, three days, four days, even five days, In the society of girls one fancies,

Is not regarded as the least peculiar.

What do you say, now, to a row by moonlight?

ALICE.

The very thing! O, what a boon is freedom! They rise from the stairs. She goes to her room and gets a shawl, which he tenderly puts over her shoulders. Arm and arm they go down, leaving the pitcher in the middle of the staircase.

SCENE II.-Bar Harbor. Mt. Desert. A, row-boat is floating on the tranquil water. A nearly full moon is high in the heavens. She is stretched out in the stern. He slowly paddles with the oars. Several other boats can be seen in the distance, but not near enough to distinguish the parties.

ALICE (sticking her head out).
All right, I shall be ready,

And we will spend the day again together,
As usual to our mutual satisfaction.

We'll climb, read poetry, drive, row, loaf, and ramble
From morn to dewy eve, and I will teach you

The latest dodge in scientific flirting;

Giving you points, and Heaven knows you need them!
You'll be an adept by this time next summer,
If you don't let such stuff as that you uttered
To-night destroy the fruits of my good teaching.
But when, in future days, you are distinguished
For being able with your little finger

To set the heart of any girl a-beating,
And not to care a rush, say that I taught you.
Say, Alice Bunting, a sweet Philadelphian,
A maiden unaffected and spontaneous,
Who always did exactly what she wanted,
And went from principle without a matron,
Found me a callow youth, a perfect chicken,
And made me what I am.-Be hers the glory."
Good-night, good-night! Remember,jnine to-morrow.
Kisses her hand to him, and closes the door.

ARTHUR.

Good-night, good-night! O, why ain't more girls like her!

Walks slowly and pensively down the corridor. -From "Little Tin Gods-on-Wheels," reprinted from

Harvard Lampoon (C. W. Sever).

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