Another Dietetic Rule of Conduct.—Never to send a servant out on an errand after dinner, but always a little before. It is extraordinary how very quick, in the latter case, he (or she) will return.
PEDESTRIANISM VERY EXTRAORDINARY.
THE Wolverhampton Chronicle contains the following paragraph, highly important to ladies:—
"The Woman's Walk.—Mrs. Dunn's pedestrian feat—walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours—at Noah's Ark, Hartshill, continues to attract much attention, great numbers of people visiting her. She has accomplished about four-sixths of the task, and is very confident of success."
It has been said with no less truth than vulgarity, that the walking of womankind is all Walker. Too generally, indeed, it resembles a mode of progression adopted by the insect tribes, except in being performed with two legs instead of several, or without any at all. All praise to the exception to this rule presented by Mrs. Dunn. We have not the pleasure of being acquainted with either that lady or Mr. Dunn, but sure we are that she makes her husband a happy man if the health of his wife can make a man happy; as of course it can or should: whereas her illness at least makes him very much the reverse. By exercise in the open air is acquired that soundness of condition, accompanied by mental serenity and beauty of complexion which can never result from dancing in an atmosphere of carbonic acid—the only purpose for which many, many ladies use their legs. What Mr. Dunn's partner costs him for shoes, we are sure he does not grudge, and he would be a fool if he did, for it is much cheaper that she should walk him out a little leather than that she should stand him in a large quantity of medicine: to say nothing of the cabs and omnibuses which are frequently required to travel a hundred yards or so by other wives.