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


as Any Ever Employed on the Mind.
Cultivating the Figure and Com
plexion.
(CopBright)
New YORK. Feb. S.-Sometimes it occurs
to me to wonder what one could do if one
had girl to control from babyhood.
Could she be brought up to be beautiful
believe she could if the hereditary handi-
cap were not too strong, did not approach
positive deformity.
One intellect is susceptible of a greater
polish than another, and one countenance Of
a more winning grace; but any brain not
that Of a gibbering idiot can be cultivated,
and so can any complexion.
1t is not easy to get a fine education, but
the means Of its requirement are fairly well
understood. 1t is not easy to have a fine
figure, but some day it will be known that
there are methods Of disciplining the body
which are Just as certain in their operation
as any ever employed on the mind
To train girl systematically for loneliness
would entail heavy responsibilities It
would mean training for health primarily.
! To begin with. il had any strong interest
in my experiment, am afraid should feel
| obliged to take her out of town. | very
much doubt If a beauty of tho highest
order, fit to live in song and story, and over
| whose charms one might imagine Xxi lgdoms
torn in twain, has many times been reared
| except on green sward. The most beautiful
women have spent their early wears as
"nymphs." THIS is Mrs. E. Lynn Linton's
word. Mrs. Grundy prefers to call them
| "ho dens."
DR.. FJthergill has been getting out a
little book in London, IN which he says that
the pure bred coekney of the fifth genera
ton has no existence. Without an infusion
| of country blood, he dies out in much less
time. Whether or no town dwellers are
| dying race, bricks aud mortar do not con-
tribute to the beauty Of women.
L could not let my budding queen of
hearts risk her chances Of coming into
her kingdom by Breathing air which con-
| tains no ozone, irritating her lungs with the
| noXIous dust OF our streets and poisoning
them with tho fumes of our passenger cars
| When had carried her off into the country
| there would need to be house built for her
| TO live in, house which should itself
breathe BEAUTIFULLY. Somebody should
stand over every workman, and
should see that it did not
rely for its air on the cellar, sucking up
stagnation and decay throug Oh the furnace
| pipes, aud that the plumber worked as for
the salvation of his soul 1t should have
| plenty of windows for the sunshine to enter
and generous open hearth in every room.
| 1t should have large rooms and high ceiled
ones, with no paper on the walls TO catch
| floating gases, but finished instead with
| some nol-absorbent material. IL should
have hard wood floors, with rugs instead Of
carpets, few hanglngs and little bric-a-brac
and she should spend, except when sleep
ing, as little time in it as practicable.
1t should he worth generous fee to the
| architect to perfect the ventilation of her
| bedroom.
AS soon as Helen-Helen is a good name.
isn't twas old enough to DO talked to,
l would teach her the art of carrying her
small body. l wouldn't wait until she was
growing thin and long-legged, like plant
running up too rapidly, aud then say to her:
do throw your shoulders back; you're
getting as awkward as you can be. But
would take her in her nightgoWn, or with
out any nlghtgown, and mold her with my
hands until she found out how to turn her
hips inward and back, draw in the abdomen,
lift the chest to It's proper place, put the chin
back, and poise herself on tho balls of her
feet and not on her heels, so that line
dropped from the chest would strike the
toes. So she should have the erect carriage
of an English lady of an old family.
Can't be done, you think; all nonsense
with child. Take the freedom out OF her
attitudess
know little boy who caught this trick
OF standing so young that he goes about to-
day in his kindergarten class as baby mis-
slo1ary. adJuring the other infants to hold
themselves properly. It's never so easy to
sit erect as it is to SLOUGH, but it's easier to
be graceful all through life if you were not
allowed TO become ungraceful in the grow
ing period. Why do mothers put corsets
on little girls of 8 and 10l Sometimes they
say it's TO keep them from becoming round
LII. 8.
caught her with dropping head or con-
tracted chest she would put her on the floor
hat on her back, head touching the
boards, and would make her lift her
shoulders and thorax, without moving
her head, to exercise the muscles Of the
back OF her neck and incite them to do
their duty. Thea she would turn her over
on her stomach and make her lift herself,
head and all, in o same way Then she
would shift the position to the back again,
have her extend her arms, with the back Of
her hands fat upon the floor, and sweep
them slowly until they met above the head,
thumb to thumb still touching the floor, and
so down to the sides and back again, de-
scriblng semi-circles. Yet another change
to the stomach position, with both arms ex-
tended straight. palms to the floor, and first
one arm and then the other, and then both
should be lifted without lifting the head,
and twenty other exercises shouli be de-
Vlseu which, 10 helen, should be play.
should not concern myself if Helen did
not begin to learn to read until she were
well along toward u years old; from books.
that is, for she should have her powers Of
observation trained and her imagin alton
quickened by lessons every day on the
growing things and the living things out of
doors. When the book work logan should
still remember that bodies need educat-
ing quite as much as minds, and that three
hours in the library with five Of chasing up
hill and down is a fair proportion. If it
were my mind to make profound scholar
Of Helen think should stand the fairest
cnance Of success by this beginning.
Helen should have as much occasion for q
running master as a music master; indeed,
unless she should have special talent for
music, far more, and, haven't invented
the costume yet, but If she should have the
nerve and SKILL to vault fence or climb
tree, she should not be hampered by the
tyranny Of her petite )ats. If she were to
be queen indeed, she shouldn't have the
fearlessness and dignity taken out of her
by years of halting and mincing lest she
show more than two buttons on her boots,
to say nothing Of a glimpse Of stockings,
even to the birds and COWS, and it goes
without saying that she should be innocent
of high heels. Her clothes should bs loose.
light and snort, and she should not be bred
to be "a little lady," but to make mud pies