The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-14
GAITS OF SOME WOMEN.
They Walk so Badly That One of Their
Sex Utters Plant

Sex UtterS flaint
From he NeD York Press
Why in the name of common menter
don't the women learn how to walk?
If the power for which the immortal
Body prayed could be conferred upon
the feminine portion Of Gotham who
walk up Broadway. that they might see
themselves as others see them" for just
one trip, they would HE them to q
teacher in locomotion, If such an indi-
vidual could be found.
The dear things don't seem TO take
into consideration the fact that all the
arts of modiste, corset manufacturers or
cosmetiques are of small avail to make
them attractive so long as they do not
take heed to their steps,
We can readily excuse q woman from
whom the suppleness of youth has fed,
or enc WHO'S crippled or one who tips
the scales at tenth of ton or over,
if she dosn't sail along like a bit of
thistltdown; but when a young girl,
1.-the and slender, whose anatomy Is
strictly orthodox, comes tward you with
a movement suggestive of the days when
the "grasshopper becomes q burden"
there is an involuntary wondernent as
to what can be the matter with her
1t seems as If the majority Of women
have only one idea, and that is to get
over the ground no matter how. One is
reminded of the advice the lemonade
boys give on the Fourth of July, walk
up, roll up, tumble up, any way to get
up"
Take your stand on Broadway
corner some pleasant afternoon aud you
you will be convinced that this is true.
About one woman in hundred knows
how to walk. The most of them have
the lazy, dangerous, indifferent, "quick of
the dead" (mostly dead) fashion is gett-
ing on, but occasionally you see one who
comes spanking along like a corboral in
the militia. shoulders painfully square,
chin in the air, arms swinging and
she imagines she's got the genuine
British gait you know, Another appears
who has evidently been reading about
Mrs. Langtry's walk and is trying to
copy it. She attempts to lift her hips
without moving hers houlders, and the
effect is not altogether peasing wheu
! viewed from the rear, as she invariably
forgets that the Lily wears neither corset
nor hustle Then there are a lot of
women who walk exactly like hens,
/ keeping time to every step with
backward motion of he head. There
are others who walk with la Bcrnhardt,
and you stand in monetary expectation
of seeing them fall to pieces. The sin
nous serpen-like side of tho Supple Sara
is as inimitable as are her wonderful
sowns.
In order to walk well woman must be
well, If she has dyspepsia she bends for
ward at the waist If anything ails her
chest she stoops at the shoulders; ii she
has any one of the thousand and one ills
common to womankind then her back is
weak, and of course she can't walk well.
But all women in perfect health do not
move gracefully.
Those who spend their time lolling
about on sofas and take u carriage to 90
a block have limp, fabby, muscles,
utterly void of spring. They are fat and
unwleldy. One needs TO visit the
different Turkish baths established to
learn how many women are built after
marble modes. Once in while there
appers one clean lined and symmetrical,
compactly and yet in such dainty curves
that you long to be an artist. Not
an ounce of superfuous flesh, her breast
as firm as globe CT alabaster, shoulders
that, like the dimple in Katashau' s
elbow, people would come miles to see.
Her eyes are bright because she has
perfect health. and her lips are red for
the same reason. Her hair is glossy
because she takes care of it MS she does
of her body, and if she has not one classic
feature in ssher face, you call her beauti-
full, and If you are woman you envy
her with all your soul.
That woman dosnt have Mysteries and
nervous chills and cold sweats, and all
the other things that make herself and
all her friend miserable. She dosn't
entertain herfriends swith accounts of
her woes physically and otherwise Not
she; her, presence is like wine; shesis d
perpetual tonic, and you can safely
wager all you are worth that she
knows how to walk.
1t is safe to assert that when the
women of America get Thoroughly
awake to the fact that physical develope
ment is the greatest help TO phytca
beauty that can be devised, "nervous
prostration" will cease to be the fashion
and nervous hcnia will become un
known.
The women Of France are organizing an as
ISOLATION on the lines of the Primrose League
aud have chosen for name "The Rose o
France" the object being the restoration o
the monarchy.
Attend the Fire and Smoke Sale at Ham
burgers. Only one more week.