Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-01-03
TITLE BEAUTY TALKS.
Ry Harriet Hubbard Aver.
IMPORTANCE OF A woMANs
WALK.

Mr.. David Belasco once said to me:
The first time I ever saw Mrs. Leslie
Garter l was impressed by her carriage.
I knew by the light, floating way she
entered the room that I had before me
an intensely active, mentally alert and
nervous high-strung woman. The tenn
permanent of the woman was in her
step.
IF she had walked as though her
feet were glued to the floor L should
never ave talked with her a second
time.
so you see how important a wo-
mans walk may be on occasions"
A woman who pounds the pavement
as she walks is usually physically
strong and mentally possessed of ter
rife obstinacy. She is not often witty.
is rarely a brilliant cOnverSatiOnaliSt,
does not possess a keen sense of humor,
but is dogmatic and as fixed in her
position as the eternal hills.
In an argument, which dearly
loves, she frequently appears to carry
the day, when in fact she has simply
worn her opponents out by her stub
bornness.
The woman who walks with a firt of
her skirts-the hustling, busting type
s usually below medium height. These
little futter-budget women, all fuss and
feathers, have lots of energy, but rare
y are good
They make ducks and brakes of
housekeeping, but one cannot get angry
with them, they mean so we'll. They
are never idle, generally are very good
tempered and can see a joke a long
way off, but when it comes to the work
ing out of the simplest domestic prob
lem after any known logical form they
futter and fuss and firt their ruffled
petticoats and declare they never
heard anything so perfectly ridiculous"
as your little commonplace scheme ap-
pears to be.
The little woman is usually artistic
and understands herself and her dainty
charm, and has such a sense of har-
mon that she maintains her proper
value ami is always "in the picture" to
borrow the studio expression.
The woman mho sWagSers when she
walks-thank heaven there are prec-
ious few of this type!
Usually she speaks with considerable
buster, using the personal pronoun
with incessant frequency. She is often
stout, her laugh is loud and without
melody, she is material and loves her
self, she makes great ~pretensions in
many directions, but accomplishes lit
tie.
a clean, long, sweeping, but not I'M
feminine stride, you may feel pretty
certain that you have before you the
elements of success.
Such women are earnest, rapid work
ers, well concentrated mentally.
They are worthy of the good fortune
they determine to achieve.
On the other hand, the slouchy step
SOI1ISlII1So OC1OI1SS ~ liz o1 Jill
doubted mental talent. It a~cconpan-
les slovenly dressing and belongs to the
old accepted literary or artistic type,
when to be artistic meant to live after
the fashion of so-called Bohemia, and
to be literary involved the continuous
wearing of dressing gown, and down at
the heel slippers.
In its purity, this type appears to be
no longer in evidence.
A cat-like tread, such as one used to
see in the willy adventures of the
stage, is also rarely now to be OBJ
served.
When you do find a woman who's
step is Stealthy and cat-like and never
heard, but who appears in a room as
suddenly as though she had come VI
through a trap or were a 1nahatma, yor
may safely conclude she is possessed OF
other feline attribE les. If there are
any mice about they woul do well tc
keep their eyes open
Women who carry their heads very
erect and walk with a sort of military
precision are usually extremely indie.
pendent-possessing great courage and
a good supply of self-esteen.
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