The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-11
THE WAY TO WALK.
Head Up, Stomach IN, Torso In Re-
pose and Toe Down First.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
American women are pretty aud witty
and wise, but they don't know how to
walk.
Horrors, how your. women walk, - the
Englishmen say. Ladies' tailors in New
York say the very same thing Unless a
man is in love with her, il is punishment
IN walk with the modern woman. This
IS what a Yale College man says about
the New York girls.
In rocking chairs they are bewitching;
in the dance they are poetry personifed,
hut in boots and gowns on the road cows
are not clumsier."
What do you think of that, MOVIE
Summer resorts are wide open. Last
sunday the seaside hotels were very well
patronized. The fair guests on the piazza
belonged TO what might be called the
representati tive women They were well
dressed, but horrors, how they walked"
1t is not an exaggeration to say that they
shook the piazzas.
There was very little tiptoeing at ORR
entail Beach. Women who go there have
loads of good clothes and lots of money.
Those who took their eonstitutionals last
sunday morning We're as gay as flowers
but they couldn't have made more noise
going round the house if they had been
hoofed or clubfooted. 1t was sad to see
them, and painful to hear them The
, duietesJ guest in her movements was a
sensitive creature dressed in mourning,
who walked with cane.
Most women walk from their necks,
their shoulders go forward and back,
their arms swing, their hips wiggle, their
knees rotate, and their skirts flop. In
this wabbhng command of the body is
lost, and the alternate pitching of the
weight from one foot to the other is both
noisy and exhaustive. Exhibitions of
this sort throng Broadway and Fifth
avenue. The trip-hammer tread is heard
in the dinuing rooms and Railways of the
best hotels and most exclusive restaurants
in the city. 1t raises the dust from the
carpet of fashionable churches, it makes
the elevators in dry goods stores sag, and
the Fifth avenue stages rock.
EThe typical English woman has two es-
Genital charms--a low voice and a grace
FIJI walk. Her movements are quiet
She may not be altogether unconscious,
but she is calm. Usually she is long
wasted. She cultivates the lines between
her shoulders and hips. She wears a
belt. The belt business is only trifie be-
low the tea traffic. That belt never
slips its mooring. She may or may not
walk up to it, but she never walks above
it. From the belt up she is calm, COM
handing and grand.
Some foreigners suppose that the En-
glish women study the army, others claim
that ROYALTY is the model They certainly
have good shoulders, and they wear their
bonnets like crowns. Nine. Albani said
OF Queen Victoria; She is the grandest
little woman ever saw" And our own
critical Mrs. Sherwood never tires of ex'
tolling the majestic carriage of he1
majesty.
One of the most successful and beauti.
full artistes on the musical stage walks
most clumsily, although she has spent
hundreds of dollars for lessons. 1t is sc
amusing to see her come down terrace
or a staircase that scenes of the sort are
never used when they can be avoided.
model in motion, who has lived abroad &
long time, and who carries herself with
regal grace, was taught now TO walk by
her father, a military man. She is truth
full woman.
= never wore out shoe or hat in my
life,' she said. Il give my clothes away
at the end of the year because the Innings
are soiled. But | never turned a heel OF
broke the sole of a shoe. l claim that {
lady--or, if you prefer the term, gentle
woman-has no business to wear GU
leather. a gentlewoman has gentle ways
She moves softly, steps lightly; she /,
simply gentle. | am gentle. 7 can e
around the room in shoes as softly as Z
cat. l claim, too, that only a vulgar
woman walks noisily in boots. If she
were cultivated, and knew how to walk
she walks on her heels. That throws the
weight of the body straight down. and
of course, there is a noise. Take a Ions
step, step from the hips, and step on the
front of the foot, and the weight is di
vided along curves and noiselessly car
ried.
Before a woman can walk gracefully
she must stand properly. One of the
prettiest lines in the figure is bell back
often referred to as the graCe-hoop line
1t make a natural hustle. When it is
lacking pads are put in the skirt bands tc
throw the draperies out. To cultivate
this bell back the stomach must be sub
dLed. Stomachs in evidence are always
distiguring, and in women disgusting
Stand so as to throw the stomach in, anC
there is the secret Of a fine back and ar
admirable carriage. For the finishing
h touch look up.
Now for the walk. First of all kee{
as quiet as possible, Hold the body
There should be repose from the head t
Il the hips, Take long steps. Walk on {
4 line for practice Give the knees play
but not loose play. Let the heel be the
4 last part of the foot to touch the ground
Walk slowly. A lady should never be ir
hurry, nor in anything heavy. Double
soles, calf-skin, cow-hlde, furs and broad
cloths are, in my judgment, garments iii
only for clumsy animals"