A STUDY IN LEGS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 6 November 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A STUDY IN LEGS.

Men generally cross their legs * when there is the least pressure on 1 their minds. You will never find a 1 man actually engaged in business 1 with his legs crossed. The limbs at 1 those times are straighter than at 1 any other, because the mind and t body work together. A man engaged 1 in auditing accounts will never cross £ his legs, says the Denver Tribune, 1 neither will a man who is writing t an article, or who is employed in t any manner where his brain is actively engaged. When at work 1 in a Bitting posture the limbs natur- « ally extend to the floor in a perfectly i straight line. A man may cross his legs if he is sitting in an office chair t discussing some business proposition t with another man, but the instant 1 he becomes really in earnest and t perceives something to be gained, his limbs uncross quick as a flash, he bends forward towards his neigbour, and begins to use his hands. That is a phase that I \ believe you will always observe. -\ Men often cross their legs at public c meetings, because they go there to j listen, or to be intertained ; they are v not the factors in the performance, and they naturally place themselves | in the most comfortable position J known to them — namely, leaning well back in their seats and crossing 1 their legs. A man always crosses . his legs when he reads a newspaper, but he is more apt to lie down when J he reads a book. He reads the , paper, of course, to inform himself, . but at the same time the perusal of its contents ia recreation for him, c and his body again seeks its position c of relaxation. When a man is read- l ing a newspaper and waiting for his 1 breakfast his legs are always crossed, ° 'but as soon as the breakfast is l brought to him he puts the paper aside, straightens out his legs and °> goes to work — that is, begins to eat, * his mind now turning on the duties t of the day before him. Men cross £ their legs in a ballroom, but it is far from being an elegant thing to do, and it is not done by those who have been brought up in good society. It is your " three-penny bit young c man " who crosses his legs at a ball, *; and, would you believe, I have seen L , young ladies do the same thing !