1901-related stories
Fitness prediction from 1901: We'll all walk 10 miles with ease
I found this article from one of my favourite Internet indulgences. It's an excerpt from Ladies Home Journal in 1901, and it's a series of predictions for where the world will be in 100 years. It's pretty interesting. I suggest you have a look.
In there, there's a bunch of food predictions -- strawberries as large as apples and peas as large of beats are two of them -- and there's even a couple of predictions on the health and fitness of people in the new millennium:
Everybody Will Walk 10 Miles. Gymnastics will begin in the nursery where toys and games will be designed to strengthen the muscles. Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. A man or woman unable to walk 10 miles at a stretch will be regarded as a weakling. Um ... right. It was wishful thinking to assume that Americans would get healthier -- we seem to have done the opposite, in fact.
In there, there's a bunch of food predictions -- strawberries as large as apples and peas as large of beats are two of them -- and there's even a couple of predictions on the health and fitness of people in the new millennium:
Everybody Will Walk 10 Miles. Gymnastics will begin in the nursery where toys and games will be designed to strengthen the muscles. Exercise will be compulsory in the schools. A man or woman unable to walk 10 miles at a stretch will be regarded as a weakling. Um ... right. It was wishful thinking to assume that Americans would get healthier -- we seem to have done the opposite, in fact.
