The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
FIRST LESSONS IN MODELLING

"women who wear the hobble some times fall in getting in and out of the taxi. The trouble is that they take too high a step, and they walk right into the hobble and this trips them up.
 Learn to step with the whole leg with out throwing out the foot too high. Noth= ing but practice will make perfect in. this line.
 Body balance is important and you must learn the art of swaying the arms. I don't mean swinging them, but sways ing them. @ 8
 There is an elderly lady in New York who, when she saw the hobble skirt, was delighted with it. not that she admired 1t, but because she knew she could walk in it.
 You walk this way she said when a hobble skirt had been put on her, and you don't have to be awkward for it Is the most graceful thing in the world.
 "She took parasol in her hand and walked across the room. Her steps were short, but she balanced her body to per lection. Tn my day. she said, we called 1t the Victorian walk because it was the walk which was easiest for Queen Vic- toria The Queen was short and the little mincing steps were comfortable for her. "The hobblers may balance themselves with a long-handled umbrella or with a reticule, as the situation may suggest or they can hobble along with no other | assistance than the graceful movements of their own arms
 "Women who swish their skirts as they walk are impossible from the hobble point of view. To avoid swishing you must walk with the ankles quite far apart. The idea is that the ankles must not rub together.
 ''The food for hobbers Is onions they build up the muscles of the leg without making you stout. Another food recom~ fended to those who need muscle is gar lic Rice is important, and rice and green shoots of any kind make ideal muscle builders.
 Here are some don't for hobblers: Don't lift your foot high or you will step in your skirt.
 1 Don't take a long step or you will do one of two things-either you will tear your skirt or you Will take an awkward tumble forward.
 Never step sideways or backward: a 1 fall is the sure result.
 Don't walk fast: don't try to lift your skirt at the crossings: hobble along as best you can fs.t don't raise your skirt at the up susns. and don't forget that you must leal how 10 be seated; and you must do IL before you try seating yourself in public
 The beginner Will sit down in her hobble skirt with her knees together: they will be poked up Tn front of her and will look like knees in bag. She must learn to sit sideways. so that the knees are not so very evident.
 Always sit in tall chair if. you have on hobble skirt.
 Always raise your skirt slightly In the back or there will be a pull on the skirt band.
 Always thrust one foot out slightly ahead of the other to give the skirt a It, l tie leeway, and don't forget to hold your hands in your lap to keep your skirt from ballooning up around your hips l "A fine exercise is with the arms and neck. You touch your fingers together at the back of your neck: then you bend your head back; then you extend your elbows. This exercise gives you a cer- tain body grace and a poise which you cannot get in any other exercise Tn walking with the hobble skirt on a woman should practice first in the house. The hobbler should put on her hobble skirt and try walking around a table; she should have parasol in her hand and her hat on her head. It is easier to walk without hat than with 1t, and for that reason the novice in hob bling should always experiment with her hat on. It gives her experience in balanc- ing herself"