Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-10
MODEL FEMALE FIGURES.
Tired and Overworked Bodies Can Never
Come Tn to the Standard.

Come Up to the Standard.
The want of good models in training the
figure is seriously to be deplored. The in
sensible education of a beautiful, spirited
picture or statue in developing beauty has
never been rigidly used in modern times.
Madonnas and goddesses are too purely
ideal to serve human readings Better types
for poise, air, and costume are the clay fig
ures of Spanish and Provencal artists. The
exquisite statuette Of 'tThe Reader" by an
Italian sculptor iu New York years ago,
was so fine modelling Of a girls dress and
figure that it is a regret copies of it cannot
be In every gallery. A girl Of 10 or 20, as
that age ought to look, stands rapt in her
book, the lines of her beautifully simple
dress defining high bred figure, matches
in its reserves, yet from which it seems one
could never take his eyes The perfectly
adjusted shoulders, wide enough for
strength, with promise of never becoming
too wide under life's burdens, are fat in
the back, as if they had grown against
wall, falling in at the waist with the spring
that betokens a good walker. The outlines
of every limb, even through the garments,
are 1.-THE and elastic. with more spring to
them than any round barreled gymnasium
girl owns. Such figure never comes from
a gymnasium solely.
1t comes first of rest and the strength that
comes of rest. A tired, weakly figure will
sag, bend and be wanting in elasticity.
Overworked figures settle down and lose two
inches OF height by the pressing together of
the parts of the body. That is why women
seem and are shorter in middle age and after
On rest depends the length and suppleness of
limb, and women should know how to take
advantage of everything in their favor to
conserve strength and secure rest. Girls
must be trained to take it at proper seasons,
whether they feel tired or not, and the woman
must continue this exact and special care Of
herself as the foundation of her well being.
A day or two of laying off at the right time,
having her breakfast in bed, and spending
the day i'll the luxury of a wrapper and a
lounge will make the difference between a
blithe, active creature the rest of the time or
one who goes about with a constant ache and
fatigue. ! know one woman who sends the
family off to the seaside and shuts up herself
to the most luxurious and wholesome soil
tude, orders things she likes best to eat
books from the library, and any little indul
gence she happens to fancy, and rests glori
| pdSl1 lIDiIl Ntch till 10 Ntth Gnu, tDiiuil-
out bright and able, as she would not be il
the exactions of hotel life
DR.. Hosmer, the father of Harriet Hosmer
the sculptures, one of the acutest of New Eng
land physicians, use to drive round his prac
tice in house cleaning season, telling th'
women TO lie down and rest, not TO sit down
when tired, as half an hour at length on
lounge would refresh the whole body NOR
than three sitting in a chair The periodica
rest should be insisted on by every mother a
: long as she lives to watch over her daughter
Without it shoulders grow broad and tn
: gait dragging With rest the step is elastic
the form well upheld, the bust firm, and tn
limbs retain elegance of shape. Work Will
7 you work and not while you rest, should b
the word for every girl and woman. Tn
bath is great aid to refinement of figure
+ and properly used will often prevent obesity
Shirley Dare's Letter.