The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
LECTURE ON WALKING.
a Rules for Getting Along in
slippery Weather.

a Postman's Rules for Getting Along in
slippery Weather.
All but doctors and men who sell
liniment will be glad to read the adj
vice that follows about the proper way
to walk in these slippery times. The
advice came from a very old postman,
jogging home from his daily rounds.
You've seen postmen climbing up
front stoops, diving into Easements
and scooting across the streets in the
slipperiest kind of weather." the old
man said, ''but I'm sur you never saw
a postman fall down, unless he was
very young and inexperienced. Walk
ing, you see, is the most important
part of a postman's duty, next t o ring
ing the door bells so as to bring the
girl on the first ring. I can tell you in
two minutes how to walk; and if you
remember what l say you will never
fall any more.
'1n the FIRST place,yo must go along
with your feet pretty far apart. That
is n important thing. Most persons
walk with their feet close together
very close. That's all right in sum.
mer, but in winter it's all wrong.
Your foot is likely to land on a round
piece of ice or snow and slip sidewise
toward the other foot, which is going
along all right. If your feet are close
together, nine times out of ten the one
that slips will knock the other one
from under you, and down you go. If
it doesn't it will get so thoroughly
mixed up with it that your ankles will
curl all together, just like grape vines,
and before you can get them straight
ened out down you 60 anyhow. If
your feet are well apart, as they should
be, you have time to think, reflect and
get ready before the crash comes, and.
perhaps, a V a bone. Another i'm
portant thing is to land we'll on the
ball Of the foot when you walk. If
you can't get the ball of your foot
down first, bring it down just as soon
as you do the heel, anyhow. Come
down fiat-footed. That isn't fancy
heel-and-toe walking, but it's business,
and it's safer. And this is why. You
may slip and fall a million times, and
every time, if you notice anything,
you will notice that it was your heel
that slipped, and not the ball of your
foot. 1t is always the heel that slips.
| don't know why, unless it is that the
sole of the shoe, being broader, gets a
hold.
These two rules, if you follow them
out carefully, will save you the price of
good many bottles of arnica. There
Ire some others, but they are not 50
important. One is always to keep the
timber as you go along; keep the
EGGS Timber at the knees, too. 1t is al
ways a stiff, dignitied sort of a man
hat goes down, because he holds HIM
'elf so that he is not prepared to lean
one way or the other and save
himself. | don't want to see the nation
ret round-shouldered, but to hold the
houlders too far back in slippery
Weather is not very good either; it fixes
me already to fall. The best way to
,old oneself is in imitation of those H.
lians that you see pictures of going
long at y sort of jog trot, with their
'odies STOPPING a little forward. Keep
our eyes on the ground in front of
on, as though you were following q
and look for very slippery spots,
nd observe the other rules; and if you
re q lady you can dispense with the
umiliation of holding your muif be-
ind your back, trying to make folks
clieve you prefer to carry it that way" .
N. Y. Sun.