Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1870 — Erect Carriage. [ARTICLE]

Erect Carriage.

An erect gait gives to a woman a queenly appearance, and to men an air of manliness, integrity and fearlessness. To bend forward or downward while walking indicates debility, depression or mental trouble, and always aggravates itself and promotes disease. Pads and supports are all pernicious, and are worse than useless, because they teach the system to rely on these, and cannot support one part of the body without causing an unnatural strain on some other part, and, to that extent, tend to disease that part. There is always one easily available and successful method of acquiring an erect, manly gait, without any material effort, or feeling of awkwardness. Let the chin be a little above a horizontal line, which is easily done by keeping the eye fixed on the top of some person’s hat or bonnet in front of you, The habit of this erect carriage may be facilitated by accustoming yourself, when at home, in the garden, or other places, to walk with the hands behind, held in one another and the head thrown up, as is done in smoking a cigar or'- singing a tune. — HaLL’t Journal of Health. One hot night, recently, the sleeping car on a train gave a sudden lurch, and threw the occupant of an upper berth into the aisle. His companion suddenly awakening shouted to him, asking him if he had fallen from his bed. “ No,” was the reply, “ I’ve just melted and run out.