Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-05-11
PHYSICAL GRACE.
Washington Struck Very Hard by New

Boston Transcript. Washington Special.
If YOU watched the dress parade on Con-
necticut or Massachusetts avenue any OF
these afternoons, you would very likely no
tice that the swell girls have adopted
fresh style of walking-their chests thrown
out as far as possible, without any throw
ing back of the shoulder, however, ana
certain indescribable spring in their
gait. Upon inquiring as to the meaning OF
this, YOU would be informed that IL repre-
sents only small par I of the new system
of physical grace, introduced
from abroad by a lady VINO
is now giving lessons on the subject 10
the daughters and wives OF the rlcnes. anu
most distinguished personages IN Wasnins-
ton. A class of young women meets at Ihe
Wanamakers' twice week, TO learn now
to walk, to go up and down stairs, TO stanu,
TO bow, to smile, to make eyes and 10 dls-
pose of the hands. II need excite no sur
prise now to see three or four pretty girls
in the dressing room, upon their arrival AT
party. wringing their hands franticaliy, as
if in violent grief. All it signifies is That
they are making those members uncon-
scious, so that they will be at ease
in company. This is Il portion OF the
new method. If you don't know what
TO do with your hands, you have only 10
let them hang at your sides and wiring them
vigorously for about five minutes before
making your appearance in the drawing
room; at the end of that time they Will be
deprived of consciousness to such an eX-
tent that you will have no trouble WIN
them for an hour or so anyway. DO TINS
once or twice more every day and you Will
find yourself become much more easy about
Your paws, through the habit OF the
g .fI 70 no 1.aullv
derful; for, you see. ii is simply that the
hands are so highly educated in this me
chanical age that they may almost be said
to have brains of their own. 1t is difficult
not to be conscious of them, therefore, and
that implies awkwardness. But woman's
chosen weapon is the eye, and an important
feature of this new system from abroad is
education in the use of that lovely organ.
Within certain range the female OF our
species has an instructive perception of the
manner in which her optical apparatus
should be employed upon her compliment
AIRY creature in pantaloons; but science mas
reduced the subject TO exact terms. Charts
have been prepared-Wa shington girls are
studying them-showing that the eye has
129 distinct expressions conveying as many
different shades OF meaning. The proper
thing TO do is to procure one of these
charts and reproduce with your own eyes
the 729 expressions before a mirror.
When you have mastered them all, try
them on other people and see how they
work. 1t is populariy imagined that the
eyeball itself is an expressive thing, but,
as matter of fact, the ball of the eye has
scarce any expression at all. That all de-
ponds upon the lids and brows. The upper
lid does the intellectual; its position is
regulated by the sort of thinking you are
doing. The lower lid expresses, by its
drawing up or otherwise, the senses. The
eyebrows are emotional, and so on. All
this, however, is only the beginning. Ger
tain it would appear that young ladies of
the future, trained to make eyes on exact
principles, will be much more seductive
creatures than hitherto. But you must
not be surprised or shocked if you find a
Washington girl winking at you: it is ten
TO one that she is merely practising the
novel science of ocular expression.