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===== Do You Know How To Walk? ===== | ===== Do You Know How To Walk? ===== | ||
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- | Excerpts from " | + | I've always believed that the most useful accomplishment any man could have is the ability to walk well and to enjoy it. They go together, for that matter. A poor walker usually detests walking; a good walker finds it delightful. Walking is a wonderful exercise, quite apart from being the outdoorsman' |
- | I've always believed that the most useful accomplishment any man could have is the ability to walk well and to enjoy it. They go together, for that matter. A | + | The style for long distance walking is the modified heel-and-toe, |
- | poor walker usually detests | + | Let's consider the stride and see if we can discover the most effective way to use the legs in covering ground. The two secrets of correct |
- | a wonderful exercise, quite apart from being the outdoorsmants necessity. The best hunting places can only be reached on legs; the best fishing streams are inacces | + | A trained walker will take in from four to twelve inches more ground every time he takes a step than a nabural or untrained walker will. Therefore he will walk faster and farther with less effort. There are two reasons for this. The first is that he walks with a straighter leg. The second is that he uses the hip swing. I am going to tell you about both. |
- | The style for long distance | + | The straight leg comes first. In walking, you should bend the knee just as little as possible. Of course, such a thing as walking with an absolutely straight leg is impossible; there must be some bend. But as the leg comes back at the finish of a step, the knee is locked, and the leg is kept as straight as you can keep it. |
- | practically every great walker. It certainly | + | I know that if you are climbing mountains this is mighty poor advice to give. There, you must bend the knees. |
- | shuffle, and no more strenuous. On the contrary, it is a fine exercise, one which | + | Most of the speed, as well as extra distances |
- | develops | + | Now all you need to master is the use of the upper body, and this is not difficult. Watch your expert walker tick off the miles. You will notice that he puts every muscle he owns into it, from the crown of the head down. You'll notice particularly that he relies upon his arms for much of his speed and lift and form. |
- | Lets consider | + | You should let your arms help you. This means allowing |
- | to use the legs in covering ground. The two secrets of correct walking are rhythm | + | Most suffering is brought about by improperly fitted boots or shoes. When you buy your outdoor footgear, make sure it's plenty big, one size larger than your city shoes, a half size larger at least. As you walk a long distance more blood is pumped into the feet than in your usual, daily life and they swell. Shoes that are fine in town become tight, and pinch, in the hills. |
- | A trained walker will take in from four to twelve inches more ground evecy | + | (( Note: Right margin of page eight of the scanned document is unclear. |
- | time he takes a step than a nabural | + | If you wear shoes with arch supports at home, have arch supports in your outing boots. If not, don't have them. If you wear heels in your daily w? (( ?? unclear - guessed )) go heelless to the wood or you will walk right into trouble. In general, shoes with (( ?? unclear - guessed )) heavy soles and rubber heels are the best outing shoes, because they most nearly (( ?? unclear - guessed )) approximate the shoes to which you're accustomed. If your feet are hardened to the (( ?? unclear - guessed )) use of moccasins, fine, wear them. |
- | The straight leg comes first. In walking, | + | Now I want to give you a little |
- | -I know that if you are climbing mountains this is mighty poor advice to give. Th4re, you must bend the knees. | + | Directions: From your grocer or druggist obtain a ten-pound bag of rock salt, the kind used in freezing ice cream. Take a good big double handful of it and put it into a foot-tub, or bucket, half filled with boiling hot water. Allow the salt to dissolve while the water cools to room temperature. |
- | Most of the speed, as well as extra distances | + | Now take this tub or bucket |
- | Now all you need to master ii the use of the upper body, and this is not difficult. Watch your expert walker tick off the miles. You will notice' | + | Other secrets I learned will likewise serve you. Carry the hands suspended long enough |
- | You should let your arms help you. This means allowing | + | When you're dead tired, so tired you feel you can't go on another step, take the riding crop, or the stick, or the gun you carry or a fishing rod, or anything and thrust it through |
- | Most sufrering is brought about by improperly fitted boots or shoes. When you buy your butaoor footgear, make sure itts plenty big, one size larger than your | + | ===== " |
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- | city shoes, a half size larger | + | Perhaps you have seen them at sunrise. Looking |
- | If you wear shoes with arch supports at home, have arch supports in 7-:1, outing boots. If not donit have them. If you wear heels in your dail- 7. | + | Thus the vow that Misty made came true! |
- | go heelless to the wood or you will walk right into trouble. In gerieral s.. heavy soles and rubber heels are the best outing shoes, because they most approximate the shoes to which youtre ac customed. If your feet are hardenr use of moccasins, fine, wear them, | + | ---- |
- | Now I want to give you a little counsel about the care of the feet. If feet are kept properly hardened yougli never know what blisters are, and blister:: are the 'bane of a walkerts life, | + | ===== Stop Press:-- ===== |
- | + | Extra! Extra! Good news. It is now possible to travel on special week-end excursion tickets on all trains after 12.1 a.m. on Friday. | |
- | Directions: Fr.= your grocer or druggist obtain a ten-pound bag of rook Fa2t, the kind used in fliezing Ico cream. Take a good big double handful of it arid it into a foot-tub, or TAtzkei:, half filled with boiling hot water. Allow the oalt to dissolve while the water cc.,11-3 to room temperature. | + | |
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- | Now take this tub or buc;ket and put it underneath your bed or in the corner | + | |
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- | of the sleeping room. Every night before you go to bed, stick your two feet ITItn | + | |
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- | the brine. Soak them for t(Ju minutes or longer. Start this treatment two inrueko before you go on your trp and you wont know you have 'a pair of feet along, | + | |
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- | Other secrets I learned will likewise serve you. Carry the hands suspn6.& | + | |
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- | Vhcmi you're dead tired,, so tired you feel you can't go on another step, | + | |
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- | the riding crop, or the stick, on the gun you carry or a fishing rod, or anythL. and thrust it through the elbows and across the back. Put your hands in your pockets and " | + | |
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- | Perhaps you have seen them at sunrise. Looking into the east when the n4s are rising in Cedar Creek Valle 171 you will see the golden tinge on the edge :Jr mists as they float up and away; it is the reflection of the goblins astrid,3 | + | |
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- | backs. And if you face the west you will see the silver reflections of the fall-1--,) mingling with the snowy mistsQ But the funny little gnomes, they seem to en: 4 Most of all in the winter. Walking out on Narrow Neck on a misty wintervs | + | |
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- | a you will hear them howling with delight, with voices like demons, as they gc&Z misty chargers through the protesting gum trees with gale fury, And how they in the terrifying surge as the mists sweep off the Neck down into the valleys | + | |
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- | Thus the vow that Misty made came truel | + | |
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- | STOP PRESS: EXTRA! EXTRA: | + | |
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+ | Tramps Through A Stockman' | ||
- | TRAMPS THROUGH | + | By N.A.W. Macdonald. |
- | By N,A.Yr, Macdonald. | + | I have travelled in most stock trains\\ From both Bourke and Broken Hill.\\ From far up north and way down south\\ From Quambone to Peak Hill. |
- | I have travelled in most stock trains From both Bourke and Broken Hill. From far up north and way down south From QuaMbone to Peak Hill. | + | And in my time at droving, |
- | And in my time at droving, I have seen a tramp or two | + | They' |
- | Have pitched them out rad belted them | + | Yes? the cows are all for comfort,\\ Yet for travelling with the coal,\\ If I ever live to see one,\\ I will eat my stetson whole, |
- | They' | + | ===== Club Gossip ===== |
- | They' | + | On Tuesday, April 26th. Fannie and Vic. Thorsen welcomed a daughter. (Frances |
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- | And sat and watched t?aem smother; Ah, it makw3 you want to weep. | + | |
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- | Yes? the cows are all for comfort, Yet for trav2.ng with the coal, If I ever lix') to see one, | + | |
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- | I will _eat ray stetson whole, | + | |
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- | On Tuesday, April 26th. Fannie and Vic. Thorsen welcomed a daughter. (Frances | + | |
Peter Page has left for England in the Ormonde, and expects to be away six months. | Peter Page has left for England in the Ormonde, and expects to be away six months. | ||
- | On Sunday, May 8th. the S.B.W. was well represented on the official | + | On Sunday, May 8th. the S.B.W. was well represented on the official |
- | At Sincarpia Camp last week-end Jock Kaske had his sleeping-bag eaten 1-7 a rac, while he was in it. (Nos no, not the whole bag). This is plainly a case of 1,L:-LrT th,-3 hand that fed it, as Jock was one of two kindly souls who said: Donit kill it, poor things | + | At Sincarpia Camp last week-end Jock Kaske had his sleeping-bag eaten by a rat, while he was in it. (No, no, not the whole bag). This is plainly a case of biting the hand that fed it, as Jock was one of two kindly souls who said: Don' |
- | A cheery letter has been received from Jeane and Gordon Mannell, reporting (a) that they are still happy th: | + | A cheery letter has been received from Jeane and Gordon Mannell, reporting (a) that they are still happy though |
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(The Story of the Blue Mountain Mists) | (The Story of the Blue Mountain Mists) | ||
By Bill Mullins. | By Bill Mullins. | ||
- | Many many years ago there dwelt in the Blue Mountains a great number of tiny | + | Many many years ago there dwelt in the Blue Mountains a great number of tiny silver fairies and golden goblins. |
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- | They were all good fairies and happy goblins, for every day of their lives they basked and gambolled in the brilliam, sunlight, with never a care to worry them. Sometimes it rained, but, wonderful indeed, it rained only at night-time when every- | + | |
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- | one had grown tired of play and had drc,7..Tod off to sleep. None of the folk had | + | |
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- | seen the rain, and none really wished to stay up and see it, for fear that it would continue to rain after the sun had risen and so spoil their beautiful day, | + | |
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- | Now living with the goblins wc,s a sad yvong fellow name d Misty Nobody knew | + | |
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- | why he was called Misty, and only a ftw of the older goblins knew' where he uane fromG He was a strange fellow indeed, and often worried his friends by his apparent unhappiness. In the winter he would sometimes sit on a rock all day, gazing 1.700 at | + | |
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- | the crags and cliffs that reared up from the valley where he was living. Unhappy he was indeed, for how he yearned to be back amongst his mountain peaks in the Southern Alps I He dreamed, as he sat there with his sad face cupped in his chubby | + | |
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- | hands, of the happy days he had spent with his sister fairies on the snow peaks, riding on the backs of the great, hog-backed, black clouds that sailed around; and | + | |
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- | of how, in the summer, they would chase one another throufh the heath and the snow- daisies; and of the glittering stars that gleamed through the spectral snawgums on their evening games with the fireflies. Ohl would he never reach those heights above? Everybody was happy, thought Misty, except his poor self. | + | |
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- | One night, after such a day of sad pondering, Misty wandered away from the evening circle of games and found his way back to the rock where he was fond of sitting and dreaming. There he sat for hours, watching the stars above; dreaming | + | |
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- | of the stars of his homeland. Meanwhile the folk had wearied of their games and gone off to bed. Misty stayed for a long time, dreaming, and it was not until just before dawn that he lay down to sleep. Suddenly he awoke with a terrible start. | + | |
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- | It was raining; but, more terrible, it was daylight. Rain in the daytime That a horrible thought; but it was not a dream, or a thought, it was truel | + | |
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- | Poor Misty became very frightened, and raced as hard as he could back to the | + | |
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- | other goblins. Grouped around in little circles, they looked miserable and over- | + | |
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- | awed by this strange phenomenon Perhaps now, they said, it mould always rain in the daytime. Gone would be their happy days of playing. No more laughing and joking with the sun starts on the creeks and streamsZ No more hiding in the cc,rol fronds of the ferns g Everything mould become wet, and dank, and soaden Is it any wonder that they were all sad? No sun; 1Nhy, they would all dies | + | |
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- | Misty felt very bad about it all, because he realised that he must have been the cause of it all staying up so late He dared not tell his friends, but he made a vow that he mould bring them a greater happiness, and restore the sunshine, | + | |
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- | and so dispel all their sadness, So he made this suggestion: | + | |
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- | He Was to watch each day, and ,JaIn i-15 first sunbeam that peeped throush the heavy c]Asuds, then, however slender it might bes he would race up as fast as he could, and mount the ugly clouds, He waald first of all enlist the aid of the gnomes (nasty little people; nevertheless: | + | |
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- | lift them and drive them up agaLn to 3ause more rain. Everybody would get a fear- | + | |
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- | ful wetting when the cloud burst, but what fun, they said, if Misty could beat those | + | |
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- | horrid clouds, and let in thej...c nshine againl | + | |
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- | Only for 0114 day did Misty and the gnomes have to wait, then, just before midday, the sun peeped through, trying to comfort the sad little folk. Calling out | + | |
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- | to the gnomes, who vmre readyi quick as a firefly Misty raced up the sunbeam, with | + | |
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- | the gnomes at his heels. High up along the sunbeam they went until they were above the cloud mass. Jumping off, they flayed into their roe with frenzied energy, for they must win to preserve their very lives. There were countless numbers of gnomes, | + | |
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- | each contorted like a little devil, and howling with rage, hoping thus to scare the ugly clouds. | + | |
- | Gradually their weight cf numbers begsn to tell, and the cloud started | + | They were all good fairies and happy goblins, for every day of their lives they basked |
- | their ringing cries of joy. Gnomes | + | Now, living with the goblins was a sad young fellow named Misty. Nobody knew why he was called Misty, |
- | with the fairies, and cheered each other because | + | One night, after such a day of sad pondering, Misty wandered away from the evening circle of games and found his way back to the rock where he was fond of sitting and dreaming. There he sat for hours, watching the stars above; dreaming of the stars of his homeland. Meanwhile the folk had wearied |
- | "What would the morrow-bring?", | + | Poor Misty became very frightened, and raced as hard as he could back to the other goblins. Grouped around in little circles, they looked miserable and overawed by this strange phenomenon. |
- | Next morning at sunrise | + | Misty felt very bad about it all, because he realised that he must have been the cause of it all staying |
- | What was this he spied? Whys all about in the valley were things like clouds. | + | He was to watch each day, and wait for the first sunbeam that peeped throush the heavy clouds, then, however slender it might be, he would race up as fast as he could, and mount the ugly clouds. He would first of all enlist the aid of the gnomes (nasty little people; nevertheless, |
- | Oolds chill fear gripped poor Misty. | + | Only for one day did Misty and the gnomes have to wait, then, just before midday, the sun peeped through, trying to comfort the sad little folk. Calling out to the gnomes, who were ready, quick as a firefly Misty raced up the sunbeam, with the gnomes at his heels. High up along the sunbeam they went until they were above the cloud mass. Jumping off, they flayed into their foe with frenzied energy, for they must win to preserve their very lives. There were countless numbers of gnomes, each contorted like a little devil, and howling with rage, hoping thus to scare the ugly clouds. |
- | were somehow different, They seemed fniendly avid clean, and how white they versa But they seemed | + | Gradually their weight of numbers begsn to tell, and the cloud started |
- | Waitl They were not joining up; they se....ned to be just drifting aimlessly, as if they were blind, and. gradually they went higher and higher. Misty, | + | "What would the morrow bring?", |
- | things. Then, sudden:Vs he remembered how he got WI name. Mist S1 Yes, that's | + | Next morning at sunrise Misty was up first. He found everything wet and sparkling with raindrops. True, it had rained in the night, just as usual. What would the day bring? He looked up to the heavens with the keen eye of a weather prophet. |
- | what they wrel Misty; of course. Now it all came back to him haw he used to love sporting on the backs of the mist clouds when he was a little fallow in the | + | What was this he spied? Why, all about in the valley were things like clouds. Cold, chill fear gripped poor Misty. |
- | snow- mountains; dashing up the sunbeams | + | Wait! They were not joining up; they seemed to be just drifting aimlessly, as if they were blind, and gradually they went higher and higher. Misty, for a moment, forgot his troubles, and yearned to be on the backs of those free, graceful things. Then, suddenly, he remembered how he got his name. Mists! Yes, that's what they were! Misty; of course. Now it all came back to him - how he used to love sporting on the backs of the mist clouds when he was a little fellow in the snow mountains; dashing up the sunbeams |
- | Calling out to his sleeping | + | Calling out to his sleeping |
- | Soon the others caught the idea and were astride the carefree,: mktotiblkie rtiat clouds, sailing along in great majeeiy; and so they learned | + | Soon the others caught the idea and were astride the carefree, |
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