Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1881 — Modes of Walking. [ARTICLE]

Modes of Walking.

An ingenious cotemporary gives the following summary of the different modes of walking adopted by those who go to and fro upon the earth: Observing persons move slowly, their heads move alternately from side to side, while they occasionally stop and turn around. Careful persons lift their feet high and place them down slowly; pick up some little obstruction and place it down quickly by the side of the road. Calculating persons generally walk with their hands in their pockets and their heads slightly inclined. Modest persons generally step softly for feu- of being observed. Timid persons often step off the sidewalk on meeting another, and always go around a stone instead of stepping over it. Wide-awake persons “toe-out,” and have a long swing to their arms, while their hands move about miscellaneously. >•* Lazy persons sci-ape about loosely with ther heels, and'are first on one side of the. sidewalk and then on the other.' Very strong-minded persons place their toes directly in front of them, and have a kind of stamp movement. The conservatives in the house of lords have begun their attack on the policy of the British government in Transvaal.