WHICH FOOT WALKS FASTER
You may think this is a very silly question to ask. but it isn't, it is a ' simple, demonstrable fact, which y:;u can prove to your own satisfaction In a very lew minutes. If you will take a pavement that is clear, so that there will be no interference, and walk briskly i n the centre, you will find that before you have gone fifty yards you have veered very much to' one side. You must not make any effort, of course, to keep in the centre, but if you will think of something and endeavour to walk naturally, you cannot keep a direct line. The explanation of this lies in the propensity of one foot to walk faster than the oilier, or one leg takes a longer stride than the oilier, causing one to walk to one side. You can try an experiment in this way by placing two sticks about Bft. apart, then stand oil' about 00ftblind--1 fold yourself, and endeavour to walk I between them. 101 l will find it almost impossible.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 275, 14 November 1908, Page 4
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179WHICH FOOT WALKS FASTER Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 275, 14 November 1908, Page 4
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