Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-01

of her head, being careful to leave half a
dozen or SO of Strands TO hang loose. af-
fordng Boreas an opportunity to toy with
mentor II is characteristic OF the
Burne-Jones girl that she generally looks
uncombed.
Then there is the Lillian Russell teeter.
known also as the Tottie Coughdrop twist.
ms method of locomotion is especially
dc signed for young women who desire to
make up in energy of movement what they
lack in inches. 1t is not exactly the walk
OF the marionette. but il is the way a
blsque doll would walk If a bisQue doh
could be Pygmalioned into life. 1t is pc
culiarly adapted 10 the pedestrian require
nients of young women inclined TO emoon-
point. Each step is as much twelve
nchcs In length, and the teeter or twist
Is essentially movement of the lower
nall of the body. which may at each step
describe almost a half-arc without measur
ably departing from che rules and regua-
ucns governing this style of walk. Such a
twis; necessarily involves a considerable
SwlshlnG OF skirts ard 1t has been noted
lEat the young women addicted to the
~ ssell tee'er or the coughdrop twist wear
sliken skirts in nine cases out of ten. 1t
makes pleasant music, this rustling Of sill
Ken skirts, ana the women who walk in
TINS way are delightful little creatures. DC
casionaily. however, some of them fan into
the error of tceteri. < twiS ting on r street
IN company with their very tall men friends.
This necessitates the young woman's taxi
Ing three steps TO the mans one-for men
OF today are too thoughtieSs or brutal to
alter their gait In accordance with the
physical requirements of the young women
they walk with. and the effect is. well.
funny.
The Athletic Girl.
The athletic girl parades on r street like
nineteenth century ATLANTA. She goes
as If she meant to get there. She is a
whirlwind, and every one of her solid steps
seems to stamp the fact that. after all,
skirts are a nuisance. and that they should
not be imposed upon such as she. The ath-
lctic girl is always entirely, ravshngly
beautiful even if she hasn't feature to
her face that is in drawing. She is beauti-
full because she always looks sponged,
brushed, groomed and fit as she herself
would probably term 1t, and because she
walks in the ways of men in fashion that
indicates in every graceful movement that
she hasn't an apology of any sort whatso-
ever to make to anybody for living on this
globe and breathing the air Of 1t. She
throws her shoulders back and her chin up.
and If she wants to swing her arms. in
stead of holding them conventionally In
front of her, she swings EN-. and she doesn't
look bit sheepish over II, either. She
doesn't walk as If afraid of kicking her
skirts. Her attitude is. that skirts were
made TO kick, so long as she is compelled
by influence of restricted environment to
wear them. When she raises her arm to
adjust her veil. you fancy that she Is
Diana about to hurl her spear. Men and
women give way to her she trods her
Springy, undertaking path. She walks like
the empress that she is of American wo-
mankind She walks like future mother
of men," the late Daudct called one of
his sumptuous provincial women.
Then, there is the walk known very re-
Gently here as the Faustina fit. Faustina
was Roman empress of no particular
character. but of a very great deal of grace.
The historians state that she literally
walked herself into the hearts of men
that she antc-dated Delsarte by sixteen
hundred years in the poetry of pedal pro-
erosion. The Faustina fit Is a walk af-
fected only by exceedingly ultra women,
who array themselves in bizarre colors and
strive after chameleon effects. 1t lis ser
pentine saunter for twenty feet or so, then
a half-halting gait of diminutivc steps for
n distance, then "A whirlwind rush, like the
leading woman making for the center of
the stage. 1t is this variety OF movement
that is supposed to hold the fascination OF
the FauStina fit. Even when the woman
who affects it has practically the whole pave
to herself she is all over the pavement at
Gnce, and seems to be perpetually wriggling
herself through the madding crowd. There
Is grace in 1t. for a fact, when II is done
right. and the queer colors of the Faustina
filters raiment produce a Kaleidoscope ef-
feet, so that dazZled men have been OBJ
served to shade their eyes from IL. A
heavy perfume always follows In the wake
of the Faustina filter, and the woman who
walks in this wise almost always has a veil
reaching just bit below her eyes that
only acccntuateS the unconsciously SPLEEN
dferous meaning in them.
The DownEcr Walk.
The Du Maurier dowager's walk is a me-
chanical affair that yet expresses many
things. 1t is composed of a straight kick
out with each step, and each kick Is WIS.,
IDLY registered at the base OF the skirt,
near the binding. 1t Is an absolutely I'M
compromising gait. There is no movement
whatever of the body. The hands are
clinched mcnacngly in front. The chin is
on a level with horizon of hills, yet the
eyes stare straight ahead. 'What-are-
gong-to-do-a clomps cv-
cry football OF the dowagers walk
There are other characteristic feminine
walks to be observed this Washington
boulevard with the commonplace alpha
betical name. The prim walk of the maid