The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-11
TO BE GRACEFUL.
The Ideal Movement Depends on
the Supple Action Of the Trunk.
the Waist and the Hips.

Has anybody told You yet, little wom-
an, that you don't know how to rise from
q chair9 Well, you don't. The act, as
you perform it, suggests the movements
OF the fat faced. jointed wooden creature
you loved best when a child, because she
was she u~ngain1iest Of all your children,
and everybody else laughed at her and at
you for cherishing her most. But you
did, and o made her the very finest
gowns and most astounding turbaps you
could devise, and kept her III your arms
most of the day and put her close by your
pillow when you went to bed az night.
and perhaps that is partly the reason why
you sit down and rise up with some sug-
gestion of her ancient grace.
But you should have learned better
things, little woman, all these days chat
you have been hearing so much about
physical perfection, and the dress reforms,
and the body reforms, n the Delsartian
graces. and all the rest And you should
have learned that the reason you rise like
your wooden doll is because your joints
are in exactly the same fnfexibie and UNI
yielding state that hers were. The secret
of grace of body is suppleness of joint.
It really takes all the poetry out of the
matter, you see, to discover that the ele-
giant ~sinuosity of movement that marks
the s'vera dea" is altogether a question of
mechanics, and depends upon the ease of
motion in the various hinges that con-
meet the different members of the human
frame. But it is. and SO the thing for you
to do is to get these hinges into easy
working order as soon and as completely
as possible.
Begin your improving exercises, not by
practicihg various graceful poses before
a mirror, as women who haven't got hold
of the secret of the thing are won't to do,
but begin with suppling each separate
joint in your body in this way. Turn the
fingers round and round on the axis of
the hand; turn the and round on the
axis of the wrist. Turn the forearm on
the elbow and the whole arm on the
shoulder. Then turn the head on the
necK-slowly and as far round as you can.
You will be surprised to see how easily
after a few days practice your face will
come to be where your back hair was a
moment before.
Now try turning the trunk on the waist
line. the legs on the hips, the lower half
of the leg on the knee and foot on the
ankle. A steady, consistant practice Of
this one turning exercise every day for
one month until every joint is as flee and
supple as it can possibly be made will
give a grace and freedom of motion thar
seems well nigh incredible to one who
has never tried it. The most Important
OF these movements are those that turn
the body of the waist, the head on the
neck, and the legs or the hips. just
notice the next graceful woma you meet
and see for yourself how much her grace
of movement depends on the free and
supple action of the trunk n the waist
and the hips.
About the Teeth.
A tooth in its normal condition CON
sists of four parts of substances-enamei,
cement, dentine and pulp. Enamel is the
outer covering of b crown or exposed
portion of the tooth, and by q wise pro-
vision of nature it Is thickest where most
subject to use and wear. 1t is the hard
est tissue OF the human system, possesse s
of itself no s~ensibiiity, and contains not
over four per cent. OF animal matter. Yet
it IL an important fact. and one which
should not be lost sight in caring for the
teeth, that this indispensable coating is
almost entirely soluble in acids.
Cement is the bone-like covering OF the
roots and neck of the teeth, correspond
ing for the covered portion to the
enamel, with which il blends and unites
about the edge of the gums. for the ex-
posed part. Dentine forms the body of
The tooth. 1t is not SO hard as bone, con-
sisting of parallel tubes about 4 500 to an
inch in diameter, n more han q
quarter of its composition consists OF
animal matter. /. is somewhat sensitive,
but the sensation il probably due to the
nerves OF the pulp. The latter, COM
monty called 1.-THE nerve" is a mass of
nerves aud blood vessels, almost in
intestinal in size, connected and en-
wrapped by u very delicate tissue. These
nerves Int blood vessels connect with
the general system through a minute
opening at the extremity of the root,
with which exception the pulp Is entirely
surrounded by a wall OF dentine.. In
fact, the pulp is the germ of the body OF
the tooth, the dentine is formed from it
and nourished by it; when the pulp
which is extremely sensitive, as most
readers know-dies: the dentine loses its
apparent sensitiyeness and gradually
changes -color-itself becomes dead
Good Housekeeping.