5 DECEMBER 1925, Page 18

WALKING. IN CIRCLES

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some years ago a writer in the Nineteenth Century asserted that most people were left-legged. We arc right= handed, but we are left-legged. This is the reason why soldiers begin :their. marches with the left foot, why the left foot is placed in the stirrup when intainting a: horse, and why the step of a bicycle. is on the left side. Our left-leggedness i»the origin of the almost universal custom of keeping to the right in walking : the left leg being stronger than the right the tendency to go to the right is the natural result.- - -I am;