Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-08-08
GAZE OF THE FIGURE.
Great Value OF Massage and the Del
sarte System

becorue the necessities Of to-day and
the yery commonplace things OF to-
morrow. 1t Is human nature that this
should be so, for not only In one case is
il true hut in many, The southern
fruits which came TO us as a rare de-
licacy but few years ago are daily
seen on very plain tables. Why not.
when they cost no more than the fruit
which grows in our eliEaaieg The oy steT
which was sometimes sent as great
Offering on friendships altar 10 our
fOrefathers from some friend at the
seacoast, is now a staple article OF diet
ALI winter long, aud not a costly one at
that, though we live nearly thousand
miles from the sea The treasured
silkeu gown OF our grandmother, care
fully kept in neat folds amid lavender
sprigs, IS to-day multiplied by dives by
tens, by twenties in the wardrobeS or
their grand-daughters. The printed
pages so rare, so treasured IN olden
times, are sold or given away daily In
these days. IT'S but a short time since
a stationary bath in ones house was a
rare, extravagant elegance, fewer still
since the first Turkish baths were es-
tabllshed IN our larger cities, yet to-
duy IL would be their absence which
would cause remark
MANICURE AND MASSAGE"
Webster's dictionary, revised and
published in IS-2, does not contain the
word manicure, yet the educated
women IN the land grow fewer every
week who do not put into practical use
their knowledge OF anicure articles
For the same reason that every one
prefers TO comb their hair with the
rubber or shell invention OF modern
times rather than with bunch OF long
strong tnOrus or fish bones, which were
some OF the coutrIyauces OF savage
races, one prefers TO use the Tile and
the rounded scissors OF the manicure TO
trim the nails instead Of the penknire-
We see the average woman with care
fully care for finger nails, when ten
years ago not one of them used the
same methods of polishing, fling and
trimming.
Massage, too. is a word Of Nineteenth
century coming. Who of our rugged
ancestry would have dreamed of being
rubbed for pleasure or to enhance their
physical beauty unless 10 was the hO-
mans i'm their age Of luxury To be
rubbed when MI IS but an expected
part of the nursing and treatment, but
To be rubbed into straightness or slen-
derness, or to be patted and punched
into rounduess and lirmnes5 Of outline
OF muscle Is Just dawnlng upon the
consciousness Of the public as thing
possible To accomplish. II VIII only lie
In the very near tomorrow when the
supreme Importance of this massage
treatment Will be thoroughly under
stood by women in particular. They
know how to appreciate HthenesS and
suppleneSS in another woman, but they
are very 10th to undertake the proper
exercise 20 develop that same freedom
OF movement In themselves That Il
may be impaired in 4 degree by no act
of their own volition, but through the
medium of anOther's hands, Is a fact to
be heralded with JOY, and there is no
shadow or possibility OF a doubt that
the moving of joint back and forth,
round and round, gently, slowly, with
certain delicate manipulatiOns, will
render it free and elastic to a remark
able degree.
What do surgeons do in the case of d
broken arm, where the whole limb has
been held immovable for days or weeks
bandaged tight and close against the
bOdy2 Do they have the wrist and fin
gers stiff and lirelesS, as they appear
when the ligatures and splints are re-
moved? No. At this point IN the
healing the daily, and oSttimes twice
daily, visits Of the sur are made
with even more eXaCtness than earlier
in the case, and despite the means and
groans of the patient he bends every
Joint Of the fingers and wrist backward
and forward, each time farther and
farther, until the tortured creature can
endure no more for the nonce. But
though the man of knowledge may de-
sist until next time he understands the
necessities of the case, and no plead
ings will turu him from his course un-
til the Joints have recovered their pris-
tine fexibility.
DEMANDS PERSONAL ATTENTION.
What example can be brought to
bear on anything stronger than this
argument in favor OF massage treat
mentp The figure demands personal
attention to-day because it receives
most notice from others, and lightness
of gait, suppleuess Of body, freedom of
movement are things desired of every
Que. Some one SAID not long ago that
she would like to have been born her
own daughter. This Is more reason
able wish than IL seems and less egotls-
tlcal. The women of to-day are thor.
oughly alive to the modern theories OF
education and cultivation, and they
find IL SO hard g task 10 unlearn half
they have been taught in order to reach
a state where they may imbibe a new
course OF ideas that It's no wonder they
wish they might begin over anew as a
child.
One Of the terrors of advanced age i!
the tendency to stoutness; nothing ex
cept wrinkles do women more dislike
n nj ~ rr-Nnf -
some 200 pounds of flesh, more or less
TO carry about engenders- Massage !:
beneficial for this, though certainly by
no means as effsCtual as active exer
else. The rubbing for this should b,
combined with long, smooth strokes o
the hand from the neck down tn
spine, and from the hips to the heels
while the same mode of procedure ap
piled to growing girls develops lengtl
of limb and general height.
Another help to lightness, grace AM
and suppleness are the movement
taught by the teachers Of Delsarte
This, perhaps, Is the best way of a.
women who have lost the yielding
spIinging movements of their youth, b
either increase Of years or weight. Del
sarte saw the beauty OF nature as 1
should be In the human form, and stu
died but to prove how IL might be de
velOped. His theory IS that at ever
movement or gesture of any part OF tn
body an almost imperceptible ripple o
movement should run through the Ell
tire frame, and when one sees the grac
of carrying out this theory, no othe
argument is needed in its favor. On
Is taught that the seat of all movemer
IS in the waist, and the undulation c
the body, when the waist theory
graceful and mastered, is the NOR
beautiful The daughters of the wome
OF today will b. brought to the higheS
state of physical culture. Why shoul
not their elders envy them2
Nut Culture in Georgia
Nut culture is beginning to attraC
attention in Georgia One man b.
more than one thousand pecan tire,
anA manu- I,