They Swing Their Arms

The queer habit men have of regardIng women as mysterlous belngs whose actions and modes of thought are qult Incomprehensible, was arouslngly lllustrated recently by a wrlter who wtfndered, through a column and more, why women, whea walking, seemed etnbarrasted about bow to diapose of thelr hands. The custom of tn sex of oarrylng purse, card case, umbrella or other somethlng wae explalned to b an effort to solve the quagtlon ot wbat should be done wlth her bands. Most peculiar, so It was averred, and Tery unlike the habit of men. It is indeed quite trae that the sexes on tb stree't manage thelr hands and arme after different fashlons, but unllkeness In thl particular Is artiflolally produced, u the wondering wrlUr could have easily ascertained if ha bad taken the trouble to tnrestlgate. Men ot high and low and all Intermedíate grades awlng thelr arm as they walk; that beautlful, natural and comfortable movement is not permitted to a woman or glrl with any pretensions to good breedlng. Don't swing your arms te anjong the earliest of the appalllng long calendar óf "Don'ts" preparad esclusively for gtrla. In fact, among the very awful eins that eonservatlve people charge agalnet the bicycle glrl la that when off her wheel she strides "along and (Wlngs tier arms." V'hat the ghould do, acoordlng to thes censors, ot oourae, is to glue her elbows to her eldes and to take lady Uke steps. However, athletlcs to llkely more and more to claim the hotnag of woman, and It is more than poasibl that ere long convention w4U permlt hr arms to swing as treely as those t her brother, and when that time trriva one more woman "mystry" wUl be