A NEW PEDOKETEIL Walking especially in the open air is acknowledged to be the most economical the most enjoyable and in many respects the most healthful form of physical exercise. It is an exercise to which is growing more and more in popular favor and as the season for summer rambling approaches when many will be seeking health and amusement in rural excursions the advantage of a simple means for recording distances walked need not be insisted on. To a great extent the value of walking as an exercise de pends upon the proper adjustment of the amount of walking to the walker's physical
A NEW PEDOKETEIL Walking especially in the open air is acknowledged to be the most economical the most enjoyable and in many respects the most healthful form of physical exercise. It is an exercise to which is growing more and more in popular favor and as the season for summer rambling approaches when many will be seeking health and amusement in rural excursions the advantage of a simple means for recording distances walked need not be insisted on. To a great extent the value of walking as an exercise de pends upon the proper adjustment of the amount of walking to the walker's physical capacity that there may be no over doing nor any deficiency through fear of overdoing. On the other hand the satisfaction attending the knowledge of just how far one has walked in a day's excursion always adds a relish to the performance. Accordingly not a few of those wh for pleasure or in the pursuit of health have cultivated this most delightful of recreative exercises have so felt the need of a simple pedometer that quite a demand has arisen for such an instrument. The pedometer made abroad for surveyors' use has failed to meet the wants of walkers generally. It was expensive and besides could not be adjusted to suit the varying step of men women and children. The instrument illustrated in the accompanying engravings meets these wants fully and cheaply. The American pedometer is shown in Fig. 1; the working parts which are few and simple may be seen in Figs. 2 and 8. The recording apparatus is impelled by the oscillations of the weight A which is nearly counterbalanced by an ad justable bow spring. The arm that supports the weight car ries pallets that engage the ratchet wheel B at every oscil lation of the weight. The small pinion connected with the ratchet wheel engages a pair of differential wheels on the back of the dial C one of which is secured to the dial while the other is placed on a hollow stud carrying an index hand in front of the dial as shown in Fig. 1. The wheel tha
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