"Do yow walk?" one is asked in Shanghai, in the same surprised tones as one would say "Do you fly?," and one exercise seems as uncommon as the other, for with trams, ricshas and motors walking appears absurdly unnecessary. Per. haps that is why so few people walk properly although that is one of the arts we have been practising since nursery days.
Even a frail person may through physical training build up a good physique and nothing conduces to that happy result more immediately than proper habits of standing and walking. Two hours, physicians calmly tell should be spent out of doors every day whether we have time for bridge, mahjongg, dances or shopping I suppose! Those of us who are weak and unused to exercise should walk till we feel tired, then rest and later continue our walk. Any healthy woman, so says Dr. Galbraith, should be able to walk five miles a day at the rate of three miles an hour without feeling any sense of fatigue.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.