St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-10
Price at Which Every Woman
Can Command Come
illness.
Mabel Jenness, Sister of the
Dress Reformer, Tells
How.
Exercise, Diet, and Dress at
the Bottom of the
Secret.
From LONELINESS to Attract
iveness by a Course
Of Training.

Miss Mabel Jenness, sister of the
dress reformer, Annie Jenness Miller,
and who, like her sister, is handsome
woman with good figure. declares that
1t is Woman'S own fault if she is not
pretty. Ugliness she says is, nine times
out of ten, the result of Incidence and
careleSSneSS. Of course, beauty of feat
1re one owes to nature, but fine, clear
skin, bright eyes, a good figure and
glowing healthfulness will go far to-
wards making any woman pretty, and
all these she can have if she wishes to.
that is if she wishes to take enough
pains. But the trouble is. she declares,
that while most women long for beauty
very few are energetic enough to take
the means to secure it. She herself, she
says, has been thin, sallOw and round
shouldered; that now her back is
straight as an arrow, her cheeks and
lips rosy, and her whole body plump
and well shaped, and that she owes
every bit of this to her own eXertions
and to her determ ination to be beauti-
full. She wears, OF course, her sisters
reform garments; but that she says is a
matter OF preference, and all that is
necessary is sensible method of dress
ing, not too tight around the waist, not
fastened too close about the chest, which
prevents it being thrown out and inter-
feres with the play of the lungs. and no
tight sleeves, carriers or shoes. All that
is needed after that is-firSt, proper
AMOUNT OF SLEEP,
becauseif Stinted of it the Iimpid bright
ness goes out of the eyes, black kolIows
come under them, and the skin becomes
dry and withered-looking, while
wrinkles appear in battalions. Then
there must be good food which is SIM
pie, plentiful and easily digested, and
must be eaten three times a dav. FIRE.
quent baths and rubbings are neces-
sary, but the great thing is exercise
not merely firing ones self out, but the
use of special movements calculated to
produce certain definite results. Women
who wish to preserve the slimness and
contours of their waist and figure must
first begin by learning to stand well,
and that means the throwing forward
and upward of the chest, the flattening
of the back, with the shoulder blades
held in their proper places, and a
definite curving i'll of the small of
the back which throws the weight
of the whole body upon the hips.
No one in the world holds herself
so we'll as the aristocratic English
woman, as any one may see by eXamin-
ing the photographs of the famous Lon
don beauties exhibited in the shop win
dOws on Broadway. Much of their
beauty lies in their proud carriage, the
delicate erectness of their figures and
the fine poise of their heads. The same
ariStocratic carriage Miss JennesS de-
clares is within the reach of any Ameri-
can girl who takes the pains to have it:
it is only the question of a few years of
eternal vigilance, never relaxing her
watchfulnesS over herself, and, Sitting
or standing, always preserving her
erectness and pOise; the result being
that at the end of that time it has be-
come second nature to her, and she
never afterwards loses it. This in great
measure preserves the figure, because
it keeps the muscles firm and we'll
strung, and prevents the sinking down
of the flesh around the waist and hips,
so common in women over thirty, and
which Is perfectly
EASY TO ESCAPE.
Another thing to avoid is bad habit in
going up stairs, which most women do
bent forward, with the chest contracted,
which, as well as an indolent, slouchy
manner of walking. is injurious to the
heart and lungs. Miss Jenness weighs
over 40 pounds, but her waist measure
is nearly q inches and bust Sc, and she
gives an impression of SlimneSS, which,
she declares, is the result of well-bal-
anced proportions, which she retains
through the merits of her daily waist
movements. consisting of bending slowly
from the waist and hip to one side, and
then TO the other; then diagonally,
swinging the body upon the hips, like
pivot, in slow circles in every direction.
This strengthens all the muscles in such
a way that no woman who does 1t faith
fully need ever fear to lose the round
ness and delicacy of her waist There
are movements for Strengthening and
strengthening the back, such as leaning
forward without bending the knees
until the tips of the fingers touch
the floor, and then, the hands
upon the hips, stretching as
far back as the muscles will
allow. Then there are drills for de-
veloping the chest, rounding the arms
and legs, rendering the thin throat full
and column-like by steady, rapid mo-
lions OF the head up and down, back
and forth, right and left. To thin
women she recommends eating of coarse
bread, grains and fruit, and to drink
sweet milk every night Immediately be-
fore retiring. They are to walk great
deal in the open air and go through
every one of the exercises she has rec
commended. To the fat women she rec
ommends baths in salt water, the eating
of crosses, lettuces and the same exer-
cises suggested to the thin ones, for it
is only loose and flabby flesh that is re-
pulSlye, and a woman firm and we'll
proportioned can afford much more
amplitude in size. But all these things,
she declares, depend upon woman's
own earnestness and energy in perform
ing them if she really wishes very much
to be beautiful. However, this is the
way to accomplish it.