Many 4 man says to his wife in the evening: "I don't sce what made you tired—you haven't been outside the gate to-day, have you?" is not generally realized what a quantity of walking is involved la the ordinary routine of housework of many an occupation not. generally thought of as, active. A number of experiments "ith pedometers (little watch-like matines worn on the ankle to keen automatic record of the number steps taken) have been made in. the United States to see how far of us actually do walk in she of our usual day's work, A young woman dancer for Vehat the ordinary routine of housework, without having any' children to look after, entailed many more tops a day than her evening work at the theatre when she had an engagement. The manager of a shop was found to walk 6} miles day; the guard of a long-train walked five miles a da and fro along the corridors, exai ing tickets after each stop. A house surgeon ina big hospital found that he covered eight miles some days. A busy day's shopping entailed anywhere between eight and eleven miles' trudge. The average schoolgirl covered 313, miles a day, and the average boy slightly more. A dancing girl was found to walk and dance a mile during one tle more in two other acts.
Pedometer experiments among a ixed group of people, including' shop assistants, waiters, tram conductors, dancers, postmen, children, typists, and policemen averaged a. walk of close on eight miles a day. knew that he had to keep showing people to tables and revising the smooth running of the service, but he did not suspect that his work entailed walking 12} miles aday. Tests on a golf course showed that 8} miles was walked, in the course of a round, while a commercial traveller found that he was walking 85 miles a week. A girl in a business ofice walked 57 miles weekly, including the journey afoot every day to any from her office.
Looking after an office lift is not thought of as an energetic occupa tion, but one attendant found that what with passing in and out of his Tift to shepherd his little flocks of passengers and taking letters and messages along the corridors to various offices he was walking more than five miles a dsy—B.D.
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