How Do You Walk?

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XVII, 24 October 1903, Page 65

How Do You Walk?

Quick step- are indicative uf energy and agitation. Tip-toe walking sy’ubulises surprise, curiosity, discretion, or mystery. Turned in toes are often found with pre-occupied, absent minded persons. The miser’s walk is represented as stooping, noiseless, with short, nervous, anxious steps. Slow ste|»s whether long or short, siig*»e-» a gentle or reflective state of mind, as the case may be. Where a revengetui purpose i hidden under a feigned smile the step will be slinking and noiseless. Wavering and changeable steps be tray uncertainty, hesitation, and indecision. Obstinate people, who in an argument rely more on muscularity than on in tellectual power, rest the feet flatly ami ♦irmly on the ground, walk heavily and slowly, ami stand with the legs final} planted and far apart. The proml step is slow and measured: the toes are conspicuously turned out: the legs straightened.