The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-11-22


walks like that. She is pre-eminently
business-like and III venture to say
would succeed in any trade or profess
ion. She is exceedingly independent
and inclined to be aggressive, and her
manner is one of those simple things
that worry the quiet man to death. A
woman with walk like that succeeds
in the work-a-d day world, but never in
the family. She Is most dutiful to her
children, but she gives them little
enough sympathy and affection, and
she would give her husband forty kinds
of conniption fits when he came home
in the evening telling him how incom-
petent her servants are compared with
Mrs. Next-doo neighbours, and how i'll
fitting her gowns look and how unbe-
coming her hats are beside those of
Mrs. Across the-street. She'd nag him,
too, IL she didn't happen to feel well.''
What about a girl who cannot walk
without skipping?" asked a white
haired woman, who occupied the stool
next to the authority on walks. She
had been interested in the conversation
from the first and was plainly amused,
but there was a far-away look in her
gray eyes when she put this question.
1.-THE girl who slkips when she walks"
answered Miss Tailor Made with q
pleased smile, sis a cheerful girl she
enjoys life with the same gusto MS 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 de-
spoudent. She looks on the bright side
of life and is a nice sort of person to
have around"
Wonderful" exclaimed the white
haired woman. "Why, you've struck
my little girl off as If 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 a noiseless, cat-like tread?" asked
| the plaid-waisted girl, nipping further
| confidence on the part of the stranger
| In the bud.
Beware of 'em," advised her chum
earnestly. "Their ways are just as cat
| like as their walks They steal upon
you unawares and they make these
| mean, snippy little insinuating remarks,
| all the while making declarations of
| friendship that you cannot answer.
\ 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 woman. She
| glides along, too, but you can hear her
when she is coming, and though she
| stands erectly and throws her weight
| forward on the ball of her foot and
| moves with a slow, even, graceful mo-
| ton, 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 loving and
| is sympathetic, she Is loving and Iowa
lovable, and fate isn't very kind to that
woman If she isn't mother, and Meth
| er 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
4 other. but that is no index to char
acter, is It? oh, moi That's what you
said at the outset Of this conversation.
| Well, just want you to understand
that it is. A woman with sloppy
| walk, as you call it, is a careless crea-
| ture. She shuffles her feet along an6
waddles about instead of walking, and
she does every thing in that slovenly
way. Her house Is. never in order hel
clothing is never ship shape, and heav.
en- help her children if she happens tc
have any. Iike3Topsy, they have tc
les grow for their mother will GER
tainly never lopk after their little
wants, and neither will she instruc
them in the small things of life. The
woman who throws herself well bacl
and walks with a rather heavy treat
like peacock is altogether a differen
type She is vain, but she is very kind
hearted and unselfsh, and is continual
ly doing for others even If she does
have the bad taste to tell about it. Sh'
is, nine times out of ten, a little apt t.
be a trihe tickle, and is always impetu
ous''
ut seems to me-" unused she of thu
plaid waist, that, according to you, NJ
she is bound to be either very tickle o
trifle so. Am / right?
what a silly question" snapped
out the other. Would woman be
woman If she were not in a measur
tickle? That's what makes us so Iowa
BILE and interesting, and if we under
took to walk on!our hands or head
we'd be tickle just the same. After all
I think the woman we like most is tn
woman with walk like that little ma
iron tripping out the door now. Hea
, how she clips along with a brisk, mu
steal step. Now she is stopping mo
ment to peep at the cakes and pies AN
rolls in the window. And now she |
walking briskly on"
Everybody within hearing wa
, watching the little matron by this time
and when she was out of sight ever
Z woman Of them turned expecta.ntly to
ward the tailor-made girl.
ga woman with a walk like that" sh
, said, "goes through life with the fxe
resove Of getting the most pleasure on
of everything. She peeps into the sho
window and into that one as she move
briskly along, and she always manage
to see something new. She Is hopefr
, and cheerful, and has no end of faith !
the goodness of human nature. She
| the most comfortable and comfortin
woman in the world to live with. OF
I tell you it's fine thing to have
brisk, musical walk. If women onl
knew how walk could talk they
think twice before every step"
"Well, I'm all beat out" admitted tn
girl in the plaid shirt waist as the
called for their checks. 81 didn't dreal