The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25
ALL MAY BE BEAUTIFUL.
SUCH IS THE HOPS HELD OUT BY
MABEL JHNNESS,
Who Thinks That Women Can Max
Themselves Thick or Thin, Graceful
or Awkward, of Fair Complexion or
None at All at Pleasure-The Latest
Apostle of Physical Culture.

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New YORK, March 49, mo woman is
at fault who is no beautiful at IS, but any
woman not beautiful at 60 has herself to
blame"
Mabel Jenness, who says this, is younger
sister of Mrs JenneSs Miller, the famous
dress reformer. The neophyte who listens
to her looks up at a well-poised Greek
maiden, whose white draperies, gold en-
broidered, are girdled at the waist and
clasped ON the shoulder, and whose straight,
elastic figure has the development Of
Diana's huntswomen With her full throat
sloping to perfect chest, her round. white
arms and strong slender hands, her supple
waist and the beautiful curves beneath the
arms following the lines of a statue, she
takes one back to the freedom and grace Of
the ancient idea s. Her firm, smooth skin
looks as if it belonged to a woman, not to
bu IDLE of aches aad pains, She has no
where an ounce Of flesh too much, nowhere
flabby muscle, nowhere bone the outline
| Of which one can see.
ANY woman who is not deformed can
save herself from ugliness If S e is not to-
indolent.n
"Howr' breathes the neophyte.
Simply by intelligent hoslth and beauty
culture"
One sister devotes herself TO evolving
beautiful dress, the other to evo wing the
beautiful woman to wear toe clothes. The
two OF them talk sometimes of n gymna-
SUM and beauty college to be established
one of these days, where they will do some
thing to train the woman of the twentieth
century, the stately Venus or deep osomed
Juno, the ideal woman Of strong physique
| of the time to come.
! Women may become stouter or thinner.
gain color or reduce it, regain lost complex
ions and hair, choose their own standard of
grace and elasticity in short, be cured of
all the physical defects which make the
difference between a bad form and good
one. between comeliness and plainness, il
| they so determine Il is all matter of self
control and strength Of will. l have no
patience with woman who is awkward or
sallow for it is her own fault that she is not
physically perfect" continues this No
priasteSs at beauty's shrine.
'tYou would sa that woman would 90
to the ends of the earth to find nostrum to
make herself be r looking, and yet not
one in fifty eveg taxes the trouble 10 learn
to stand"
lit is easy for a graceful woman to
preach pretty postures," suggests hollow
chested girl, somewhat tim dlys
SIS itW Something has happened TO the
1.-the figure. Tho back fattens itself, the
hips lose their curve, tue abdomen pro-
trudes. "NOw; do ] not look as if | mad
been pinchi0g my waist with cJrsets until /
| bulged out ewhere else and needed TO
put on a hustle to disguise the i'll effects of
the treatment my body had received Most
women stand lazily. If they are told to
hold themselves erect they throw the
| shoulders back and the whole lower part Of
tine body below the waist forward in an
ugly curve. Now see."
The tall figure puts on beauty as a gar
| meat. 1t peises forward till the weight
falls on the balls of the feet, instead of the
heels. II one were to drop a plumb line
from the shoulder it would fall not far back
| from the toes. The chest is lifted high and
the shapely head drawn back with chin
| down in an easy poise.
You can always know when you are
holding yourself properly. In correct posi-
ton you don't need a hustle, aud it would
not occur to the average fAt-backed woman
that you were not wearing tle tiny pad
which is all that fashion requires.
you know that few women can walk a
mile without fatigue, do you know whyi
It's because of this same indolent way of
carrying the figure with the abdomen out
and such a lack Of regard for the curves Of
the spine that one comes down at every step
with thump which jars the who'd b dy.
| have traced many a case Of weak back to
bad walking.
''This is the way to walk, SEQ here" and
the pretty room is crossed with a step that
is an elastic spring
AS il standing. she poises forward, aud
the plumb line, if she were suddealy to hest
tate, would strike her toes.
"All bad habits Of this kind tend to spoil
the figure. How do women go no stairsf
They bend forward, letting the figure flop
together. The chest is contracted and they
can't breathe. When they reach the top
the heart is beating like a trip hammer.
The effort would be reduced one-half sim
ply by standing straight, keeping the chest
up and breathing as one ought TO.
| 'lndolence i'll the sitting position is one OF
the main causes that bring about the set
Ting of the figure and the heaviness about
the hips and accumulation Of flesh which
torment women as they get toward 80 to So.
The fashion writer brings up this flabbiness
| and bagglneSs as an unassailable reason
why women must wear corsets. Correct
sitting, involving as it does the develop
ment Of the body muscles, will do more TO
hold one together and to preserve the figure
than any form Of compression yet thought
Of"
"Will you show us how to sitT begs the
disciple.
"Don't slump, if you will pardon the ex-
preston. Chest up, as always. Poise the
body from the hips and don't bend fro n the
waist line. You may lean as much as suits
you, but don't drop. Keep the line from
the bust down straight by the support of
your own muscles, it's only laziness that
leans on whalebonesn
"But it is so fatiguing to put so much
conscience into ones position"
I'm two months time you can educate
the muscles to hold you up as unconsciously
as do the springs and steels."
"Do you mean tbat you can really pre-
serve the waist measure in this wayF
Certainly, and it is the only way in
which you can preserve 1t without, at the
same time, exaggerating the hips and the
bust.n
"But you are so slender 10 begin with"
II am not sic der at all / weigh over
lao pounds. NY waist measure Is nearly n
inches, bust nearly 80, and no matter If
get more heshy shall see 10 1t that main
tain that proportion"
Wont you show us how you get that
control over the waist which builds up It's
sue that will mind you"
Certainly aud the Greek. robed figure
with its loose girdle and flowing draperies
Is on It's feet and begins graceful swaying
motion. II bends slowly from tue waist and
the hip 10 one side, then TO the other, then
diagonally. IL swings upon the hips as a
pivot, describing a slow circle, sidewise,