The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-09

supreme beautifer. making her round
limbs light, supple and free. Atalanta
ran, and II sle had been a Spartan
girl she couldn't have married il she
hadn't been able to run. Her whole future
depended on her physical development.
Inc Spartan girl had to contest with the
boys IN the gymnasium. No feeble girl
| could pass herself of rs robust by any arts
OF dress. Every sickly girl was obliged to
ABSTAIN from marriage. The racs could not
be allowed TO deteriorate by making
mothers OF its poorer specimens The
Greek women were the finest who have
ever existed, physically, and it is impossl-
ble to look at the large-eyed, sound Iunged
creatures as they appear in any classical
collection without feeling that they tasted
all the Joy and sweetness and beauty Of
llvirg. To achieve her namesake's beauty
Helen should try her namesake's means.
One OF the prettiest women In New Eng
land was sickly and sallow as a girl, on the
verge of consumption. turn her out to
pasture, said a wise physician. She throve
like colt, and on the same regimen. run
ming and kicking up her heels. One day
her brothers planned a nutting expedition.
MAY ask Nellyf n she questioned, planning
fine time for her only girl friend. "Pooh,
she can't CO." answered the boys. "She's a
grip One of those girls died of the New
England scOurge, but it was not the one
and can still climb tree.
Helen should swim and should paddle
canoe. She should throw stone. She
should fence. She should ride horse, but
not on side saddle. She should skate.
She should dance. She should walk-walk
like tiger, with every muscle doing its
work, firm, easy, counterpoised. She should
have the full grace that nature meant to
bestow on her browning production. Every
day OF her life should round her arms and
I'LL out her chest, and train down her figure,
and make firm her muscles, and give her the
poise and hghtness Of varied motion-give
her vital force aud staying power.
Helen should eat, and what she should
eat and how, should be one of her teachers
chief studies. Good digestion means good
complexion. Pickles and pink ice cream
mean dull, thick skin with pimples. If
Helen Is TO come into her kingdom, the
kitchen In which her meals are prepared
must be presided over with as much intelli-
gence as IL it were a chemical laboratory.
And it is The experiments conducted in it
are or the utmost Importance, and on
their results depend the brightness Of
Helen's eyes. the clearness soft
ness, satin smoothness Of her skin.
Helen's cook can do much TO make Helen's
flesh habby and coarse, sickly, blotchy and
irritable. Helen's cook can do much to
make it elastic, pink-tinted and dimpled.
reverently served with milk and cereals,
fruit, beefsteak, plenty Of simple, nutritious
brOths and soups, coarse bread made from
whole wheat flour and simple sweets
and buildings. She must eat at regular
hours and be thought respect for the gospel
of that which is wholesome.
She must have a bath every day. Per-
haps sponge bath with good rubbing in
the morning and warm bath at bedtime.
This is good for both figure and complex
ion.
All of these things should contribute to
the really artistic care of her body and to
the education Of vital grace Helen's beauty
teacher could not transform her features,
but, il she were such a teacher as we shall
yet have for such beauty courses, Helen
could hardly fail Of back as straight as an
arrow, lips and checks rosy, fine eyes, soft
bright hair, and body plump and we'll
shaped, for these are quite within the con-
troll Of training.
III. H" used to say that Laughing mas
ters might as well be paid as dancing mas
ters 20 help on socieJyn Running races in
the wind is the very thing to put joyousness
into Helen's manner, and joyousness is so
rare in America as to be in itself almost
beauty. Helens face must not be empty or
dull. She must think and she must feel
and the thinking and the feeling must put
life and expression into the statue. She
muSb know, ana Jhe sound mind IN the
sound body must make sweet and whole
some woman.
And to what end9 One Helen might go
back on her beauty training, sit over a
register, eat heavy course dinners with bon
bons between meals and cover up the first
pimply blotch that appeared on her fore
head with chalk and carmine and dotted
veil. But that does not alter the fact that
the coming woman must be as strong and
free OF body as the ancient ideals
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.