Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-05-12
PRETTY MABEL JENNEss
Tells How to Make scrswny Necks Plump
and Smooth, to Enlarge tho Arms and
Make the Waist Smaller,


Make the Waist Smaller,
Portland 0re9Onidn.
Mics Mabel Jenness, youthful apostle
of physical culture for the fair SEX arrived
in Portland yesterday. Miss Jenness is
supple, 1.-THE, vigorous and powerful, with
out an ounce of superhuous flesh on her
body OF the visible outline of bone in her
anatomy. She insists that she made her.
self what she is by the constant practice of
simple exercises, and that every woman is
to blame if she doesn't possess a modicum
of the physical beauty and grace che
covets.
There is no body" she says, unless it
be deformed, that cannot be materially i'm
proved and refined and educated TO cnl-
cured grace and beauty b. peFsevering,
conscientious effort"
"Well, what would you do, for example,
with tall, angular girl, whose joints are
bigger than any other part of her body?"
81 would do this, see," and, throwing
her arms out in front of her. clenching the
fist until every muscle was outlined, she
threw them above her head and down at the
sides, out in front and back with vigorous
action; then liisd her hands out at the
side as though they were lifeless, suddenly
stretched them firmly, turned the clinched
fists backward and forward until it seemed
So though they would be twisted from
the wrist entirely, made several
more strong, steady motions, which
called in play every muscle of the arm and
forearm, and, then, taking all the life out
of the hands, she swayed them up and
down, forward and back, and round and
round in slow, beautiful motions of grace.
NOW, l wouldn't do this once or twice
while thinking of 10000 other things, but
every day and twice day would put all
my intelligence into the effective practice
of the exercises until had mastered my
elbows and made my arms so round and
full that they would be the envy OF my
friends"
"How long would it take?"
THAT depends on the energy of the per-
son and her adsptability to the work.
Usually in few weeks or months at the
most we notice decided difference"
Suppose woman has scrawny neck,
what could you do for that?"
''The simplest exercises for the develop
ment of the bust is swinging the arms back
ward until the backs Of the hands touch,
and breathing correctly. Most women
breathe in such way, either from the
tlghtness of the clothing about the waist
or from Incidence or ignorance, that the
apex of the lung is never filled with air,
and the muscles over it grow fsccid and
shrunken from lack of use. Then, too,
many women stand wrong, with the abdo-
men thrown forward instead of the chest,
and following the directions of gynnasts,
throw the shoulders back instead of the
chest out l would have a woman stand
in such manner that the chest should be
in a'line with the toes; the abdomen will
then be drawn in, and the chest thrown up
and out. Now you have something to build
on that doesn't need so much filing out,
but just enough muscular development to
cover the bones. There is great differ
ence between muacular development and
fat. Fleshy women who stand on their
heels, with protruding abdomen and shout
ders thrown back all out Of symmetry, will
have Threats 30 covered by adipoise tissue