The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-11-18
What about a girl who cannot wall

rpXt 10 the authority on walks. She |
k.t been interested in the conversation |
Il ON the first and was plainly amused. |
bu, there was far-away look in her |
gay eyes when she put this question. |
The Girl who skips when she walks"
answered Miss Tailor-Made, with u
pleased smile. "is cheerful girl. She
nioys life with the same gusto as the /
girl with an elastic step who tips on
her toes at every stride. She is full
OF hope and does not know what it is
to be despondent. She looks on the
bright side of life and is nice sort
OF person 10 have around"
''Wonderful!" exclaimed the white
haired woman. "Why, you've struck
my little girl eff as il, she'd been your
most intimate chum for years. She's
| in Europe now studying music" she
volunteered with frank friendliness.
what about these women who walk
| with noiseless. cat-like tread?" asked
the plaid-waisted girl, nippng further
| confidence on the part of the stranger
| in the bud
| Beware of 'em," advised her chum,
earnestly. "Their ways are just as cat
| line as thSll "diNo' AhSy StSui uPoi
YOU unawares. and they make these
mean. snippy little insinuating re-
marks. all the while making declara-
tions of friendship that you cannot an
swer. Ugh! A woman with walk
like that makes one shudder to meet
her. The cat-like tread is so different
from the walk of the well-poised wom-
an. She glides along, too. but you
can hear her when she is coming. and
though she stands erect!y and throws
her weight forward on the ball of her
foot and moves with slow. even.
graceful motion, there is nothing
stealthy in her walk. Her character is
as clean-cut as her stride. She holds
herself well in hand, she is gentle. she
is sensitive. she is sympathetic. she is
loving and lovable. and fate isn't very
kind to that woman if she isn't a
mother. and neither is fate kind to the
children who miss being her children
"Some women have such sloppy
walks" asserted the girl in the blouse.
"Of course they do," answered the
other. But that is no index to char
acter, is it? Oh, no! That's what you
said at the outset of this conversa-
ton. Well, just want you to under
stand that it is. A woman with sloppy
walk, as you call it, is a careless crea-
ture. She shuffies her feet along and
waddles about instead of walking, and
she does everything in that slovenly
way. Her house is never in order, her
clothing is never ship-shape, and heaven
Z help her children if she happens to have
. any. Like Topsy, they have to jes'
grow for their mother will certainly
I never look after their little wants, and
, neither will she instruct them in the
= small things of life. The woman who
I throws herself well back and walks
3 with a rather heavy tread like a pea.
: cock is altogether different type. She
< is vain, but she is very kind-hearted and
> unselfish, and is continually doing fol
others even if she does have the baG
: taste to tell about it. She is. nine times
r out of ten, little apt to be triflt
D tickle, and is always impetuous."
"It seems to me-" maised she of the
+ plaid waist, "that. according to you
no matter what kind of walk woman
;. has, she is bound to be very tickle OF
o trife so. Am I right?"
t "What silly question" snapped ou
the other. "Would a woman be WON
i an if she were not in a measure tickle
g That's what makes us SO lovable ant
s interesting, and if we undertook Il
n walk on our hands or heads we'd b'
: tickle just the same. After all. thinl
8 the woman we like the most is the WON
n an with a walk like that little matror
u tripping out the door now. Hear how
she clips along with brisk. musica
: step. Now she is stopping a momen
}. to peep at the cakes and pies and ROLL
= in the window. And now she is walk
ing briskly on"
Everybody within hearing was watch
ing the little matron by this time, ant
! when she was out Of sight every won
: an Of them turned expectantly towart
the tailor-made girl.
. "A woman with walk like that,
!, she said, "goes through life with tn
= fixed resolve of getting the most pleas
= ure out of everything. She peeps int
]. this shop window and into that on
as she moves briskly along, and sh'
. always manages to see something new
- - She is hopeful and cheerful. and ha
:. no end of faith in the goodness of hu
: man nature. She is the most com
q Portable and comforting woman in tn
= world to live with. Oh. tell you it,
= fine thing to have a brisk, musica
9 walk. If women only knew how
= walk could talk they'd think twice be
I, fore every step"
4 swell, I'm all beat out" admitted tn
T. girl in the plaid shirt-waist as the,
called for her checks 81 didn't dream
e you could see anything of a person
d character in her walk" and then sh
IS began to laugh.
~ "What's the matterp" asked Mis-