To become an elegant pedestrian is no mean task, nor is it an easy one to accomplish. Yet it is of the utmost importance to a lady, in particular, to master it. How often, in our experience through life, have we met with a lovely face and perfect figure,—everything that could constitute the perfection of female beauty, while at rest!—but once in motion, the illusion is dispelled from a bad carriage and shuffling gait, the perfect form becomes quite common-place. These two destructives to beauty can be entirely eradicated by attention to the following directions, and which apply equally to
WALKING AND RIDING.
Keep the bust and head erect; the shoulders well thrown back. The motive power to proceed from the hips alone.
Perseverance in these few directions will soon give all that is required for a graceful and healthy carriage.
Finally.—At all times trust to your reins for security, in cases of danger. Never grasp the pummel of the saddle. Never use a “Habit Brooch.”
