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Show Why Amerlcim Women Walk. "No other women in the world can compare with American women," said a man who has been living abroad for several sev-eral years, "iu walking. The American j womau walks by preference. She seems ! to scorn a carriage. And how she walks! Her head ib held up, her shoulders are 1 thrown back nnd her step is firm and elastic Is it any wonder that ahe has a fine color and that her lips are fresh and her eye clear? In other countries women ride because they do not feel safe when 1 i they are in the street. Here they know j that they have every man at their com- mand if they need him. You find women in line after line thronging the streets where they go to do their shopping, or in Fifth or Madison i avenue, when they are returning home. They may not know what a blessing their independence is to them, but their I own beauty and the health and vigor of their children in after years are in a ; great measure due to this love of walking. walk-ing. Save in England, perhaps, I have I seen nothing like it, and in England the i women do not walk as they do here, I They are more deliberate and grave. ; Tho quickness and strength and fire are 1 missing. They seem more like machines, j They walk for the sake of tradition, it j seems to an American, but here our I women walk because they like to walk." ! New York Tribune. |