The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-08
FINE ART IN WALKING.
HOW ALL MAY B Ora CEF UL IN
CARRIAGE AND MANNER.

Her a Queen-how to Stand and to
Bend
tCoayright Securely
! NEW YORK, sept z-Gracs OF motion is
woman's supreme clarn and the one
least often exc mp iie1. In Edward Bel
/ lamy's now fashionable 10 king Back
ward" the mag ficelt hea Ia of the maid
/ ems of the millennium is enthusiastically
/ dwelt upon a I'd the reaisr is inf jrm ID that
| it is in part the result of natural selection.
| This law one would sup ose, should be at
work in our own time. The more lovely a
woma , is the larger nsr fie d Of choice when
she marries. S le who enjo IS the largest
| liberty Selects one may ,su ne, the finest
specimen Of manhood for her husband an
the world is peopled with beautiful children.
| 1t is true that acc riding to this principle
ugliness and awk Hardness ought long ago
to have become extinct, watch is by no
means lie ca,e, wit ess t g number Of
| handsomely attired women on le aven es
| az the uour Of the fgshio able pro uenade
who walk like automatic geese wou ID up
| for a thirty minutes waddle. Under the
Iatural dispsnsation the woman who wa
| most graceful and beautiful would be likely
| to become the mother Of fl q daIglter
| because she wo Id be a file creature, a
| randy constructed animal, IL VIII )n grace
| of motion wOul o9 the expression of the
| highest physical perfectlo 4, her queen-
ship over her kind proclaiminy itself in
| step and carriage. Bat nowadays it is
Of en- the chic little rat of thing with biz
| hollow YES no waist and not dro of
wholes me !oo1 in ner body who minces
along in tight shoes with a half limp TO
favor the foot that hurts he most VINO has
the widest liberty of matrimonial choice
and peoples the world with physically =
| educated citizens 1t is not real
& ace, the grace that one a1mires
| in marble or in Greek friezss of
dancing Made that att acts most, for the
| simple reason, perha s, that we are but now
| getting our eyes open toits possibilities.
At any rate, it is only whel the sl0uch-
ing ranks Of CO nmoneri divide to yield pas
sage to a royal creature who f)a throlgn
| the stOo .l-shoIl tered and stuff ng multi
tude in a har uony of motto, ritlng and
| unconscious melody with every changing
attitude, that most of US realize how ex-
C edlng rare is 10 poetry OF walking AID
how almost universal is its awkwa d prose.
What a variety of blundeis in gait and
ca ria ge serve the observer as co nmoI in
dices of lack ofp iysical retinrme t, okens
as unerring IN their pointing as boorisnness
at table, diamonds with oraing d esS or
outlandish nlispro uncia ions, for all t stify
| alike to igno ance and dolence. oba-
| bly the mistake oftenest made by all sorts
| and conditions of women in alkng is that
| IF setting down the foot heel first, carry
ing the weight on the rear hall of
eel aud thrustlng forward the abdomen, a
| movement which jars tIe spine ana is re-
sDolsib for for weak backs a id more than
one set OF DIS rderS. Stout women walk
with their hips, using each leg i'm as
PIVOT on which t. RESI- the weight while
| 'wingi1g on arc OF a circle before trans
fe ring it poGder1uSly to the other. Sli n,
| nervous women often walk with the ould-
ers, Jerking forward first one and the the
| other in eagerness to toucl at least with
the upper part of the b pdy the place Of dos
| tinaion. Careless women, espec ally when
| fatlgu9d with days sho ping, allow the
| body to collapse, the shoulders lop ing over,
| the chest contracting itsef and he spine
cIrvi like tn It of boy lunchsd over h s
books at school. A majority of women
walk m )re or less mechanic lly, the barrel
| ing and lODing in corsets DIES roying the
ontanity and vitality of the waist mus
cles and converting them from spri ,ging,
oil ,stic crea ures into automata moved some
what ciumi Y by springs. Many wome
| travel from side to side in walking, tho
! wooden ri gag being painful to this 20
when the gait is at all hurriel and becon-
ing positively dIsore sing in " att N 1t a.
| a run. To move smoothly, steadily and
| swiftly, straight from the point of depar-
| ture 18th the harm pnious consent of all the
muscles is talent so rare that to gaze on u
| " oman who losses 5es it Is siiicient to N TX
| tia day with q white st me, 1t is by q
| rare and euphemistc courtesy that men
call women graceful creatures.
| TIE art OF walKi x saoud be tau ght TO
| girls IS carefully as the art Of reading, for
me is TIE sis of phy Ical as the other is
| Of me tai education, ID avkwardneSs is as
! directly the result Of carelessne's as had
| SPELL ~. Before learning to walk one
| must learn to stand, to poiSs and to bend
and the basis of all tn So is learning to
| breathe. The first thing to be acquired
| preparatory to al frCher eff )rt IS the
| knack of lifting the chest inro its proper
| position by the action of the waist and i ter
| COSTA muscles, ID ho.dl Ig it as the pro III
nelt pa of the body-a post of h u " too
often usurped by the inferior add men.
| The same motion whicl ia ows olt the
| chest shO Id draw in the 10 yer part of lae
trunk, hanging it from the curve Of the
Inc, ms cad of resti it ciuulSlly in the
| pelvls like great pudding il basin. Il
| the proper attitude for 20 "a brea hing the
hips turn slightly inward a NJ the chm goes
| back but not uI @ shoulders being fl
abs ilbely out Of conside alton. Throw
INK Jlb II DICK OF hUISil JllS IOEClDIy
straightan the II result in half a dozen
| evils more to De dreaded than 70 mi shoLl-
| dsrs. Take care of the chest ard the sh1 l.
ders will take care of t enselves No
fate the lu gs fully ami W ien the cues
i, naturally but without exa ggeratsd force
| expanded step up N front OF a door, lie ii :
bota toes toucn the woodwork If at tn,
same time the forehead and the chest meet
the varnlsh it is safe t. icluds that VOL
are taxi g for the nonce a good sta ding
p sitiOn.
In tue best standing attitude tho poise
seems to be a little TO ward of a str aight
liue, a perpendicular from ne chs,t falling,
as above stated, between the toes, bat that
this is the absolutely erect position for the
body is shown y the fact that it il the only
poise from whic ballet da cor can ris9 to
the very points If her tiny toes and co ne
down in the riginal position again without
swaying backward out of line. In his iosi
uon the head is poised as if to carry stea lilI
a burden Ga the crown, and the weig It Of
ne body resteOn the balls OF the feet nc
not on he heels. MANY teachers of phySica
culture will cell YOU that to stand correctly
Is easier ,nAD TO 90 otherwise, b It with the
averag person the eass is an acquired, not q
ia ura! o e, and during the pro Jati1n Jeri ,d
a constant and conscientious waite must be
kept over ones attitudes. Until practice has
accu toned the body - the shifting Of the
center of gravity forward, the nov c. used to
standing on the heels will feel insec ire, as
If about TO tumble forward, but this accord,
well enough with the dicta of the phvsiolo.
glStS who are accustomed TO define a wa Tx