Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-22
WOMAN AND HOME.
A WOMAN WHO SAYS HER SISTERS
 DON'T KNOW HOW TO WALK.

DON'T KNOW HOW TO WALK. One Dozen Women Who Achieved Great
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 Do-Items Concerning the Household.
 Why in the name of common meter don't the women learn how to walka
 If the power for which the immortal "Bobby" 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 hie them to teacher in locomotion, if such an individual could be found
 The dear things don't seem to take into consideration the fact that all the arts of modiste, corset manufacturer or cosmetics are of small avail to make them attractive so long as they do not take heed to their steps,"
 We can readily excuse a woman from whom the suppleness of youth has fled, or who is crippled. or one who tips the scales at a tenth of a ton or over, if she doesn't sail along like bit of thistle down, but when a young girl, 1.-the and slender, whose anatomy is strictly orthodox, comes toward you with movement suggestive of the days when the "grasshopper becomes burden" there is an involuntary wonderment as to what can be the matter with her.
 It 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 upon Broadway corner some pleasant afternoon and you will be con- vinced that this is true. About one woman in a hundred kppyyS how n va1k The r,Oct nf them have the lazy, languorous, indifferent, "quick or the dead" (mostly dead) fashion of getting on, but occasionally you see one who comes spanking along like corporal in the militia; shoulders painfully squared, 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 ard is trying to copy it. She attempts to lift her hips without moving her shoulders, and the effect is not altogether pleasing when viewed from the rear. as she invariably forgets that the Lily wears neither corset nor bustle. Then there are a lot of women who walk just exactly like hens, keeping time to every step with backward motion of tho head. There are others who travel la Bernhardt, and you stand in momentary expectation of seeing them fall to pieces The sinuous, ser pentlike slide of the supple Sara is as mimi table as arc her wonderful gowns.
 In order to walk we'll 6 woman must be we'll. If she has dyspepsia she bends forward at the waist; if anything ails her chest she stoops at the shoulders; if she has any 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 @ carriage to go block have limp, fabby muscles, utterly devoid of spring. They are fat and unwieldy. One needs to visit the different Turkish bath establishments to learn how many women are built after marble models. Once in a while there appears one clean limbed and symmet- rical with clear, healthy skin, muscled so compactly and yet in such dainty curves that you long to be an artist. Not an ounce of superfous flesh, her breast as firm as a globe of alabaster, shoulders that, like the dimple in Katisha'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, be- cause she takes care of it as she does of her body, and if she has not one classic feature 1 in her face you call her beautiful, and if you 1 are woman you envy her with all your | soul
 1 That woman doesn't have mysteries and nervous chills and cold sweats, and all the | other things that mako herself and all her 1 friends miserable. She doesn't entertain her | friends with accounts of her woes, physical and otherwise. Not she; her presence is like wine; she is e perpetual tonic, and you can safely wager all you are worth that she | knows how to walk.
 It Is safe to assert that when the women of America get thoroughly awake to tho fact that physical development Is the greatest help to physical beauty that can be devised nervous prostration" will cease to be the | fashion and neurosthenia become unknown | A Woman in New York Press