26 DECEMBER 1925, Page 17

WALKING IN CIRCLES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR, --I see in the Spectator of December 12th the subject of walking in circles continued in the correspondence column, with the implicat ion that the right-handed person is left-legged. Surely this is quite wrong ? It is the leg that is bearing the weight of the body and the stress of the forward movement that is doing the hard work, while the leg that swings is having an easy time. The stronger leg can bear the weight and stress for a longer time, which gives the weaker leg opportunity to swing farther. The result is that a person having no visible object to correct his deviation must go towards the side on which there is the stronger leg. The right-handed man, being also right-legged will go to the right, but if he were left-legged, he would go to the left.-- I am, Sir, &c., W. S. B.