About Walking.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 978, 28 November 1890, Page 4

About Walking.

Not one person in a hundred knows how to walk. Every age of life and every indl vidnal has his own gait. The tot-toddlekio as he begins to balance himself on two feet sways from one side to the other like a fat man. The little girl of six summers, with her pretty new dress on, walks as straight aad elegantly as ever she will. Her little feet are thrown forward with an elasticity peculiar to that age. The little girl of 13 begins to be careless, bends her bick forward and goes divitig into the schoolroom as if ahe were going to swim. At 16 she steps along with short steps, striking her heels hard on tW floor with a don’t care-for-nobody sort of walk. At 18 she thinks more of her gait and aims to recall that of her earlier child’hood. The boy of 11, with his new thick boots, plants his foot like a soldier, and never knows that his boots disturb any. body. Many children are taught at home and at sohool to walk on their toes. This will do in a sick-room when one has squeakiug shoes, but it is not nataral or elegant. Put the heels down lightly at first, and the toes last ; this keeps the body erect instead of bending the body forward as a person must who walks on toes. It costs nothing to know how to walk correctly.— Health. 3