Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

tHis "ouuFousiS peautilul CREATURE Will
two or three years Of married life, - has
begun to fade. cat thirty the bloom is
gone; at thrty-five they are
women.'' Now, l wrote no such thing
l merely quoted a man as utteripg the
assertions which the Sun credits to my
own pen. And the man was McAllis-
teran, too. But he was wrong mainly
The fashionable girl Of New York is
more apt TO be healthy than not, and she
doesn t fade earlier than the average of
her sex the world over. With no over
work or worry to break her down. and
with liking for air and exercise to build
her up, why should she be bloomless at
thirty, passe ut thirty five or an old
woman at forty? AS l write l am get
ting q little angry toward the Sun, and
inclined to bring damage suit for max
ing me GU. q libeler of my sex.
1t was only yesterday that l talked
with Fifth avenue married belle, aged
thirty-fiVe. She was a beauty as to the
symmetry and health of her body; so
much so that [ begged her TO tell me how
she had go handsomely preserved, if not
developed, her shapeliness and vigor.
''For improvement of the figure, - she
said, "there is nothing so good as swim
ming. The muscles about the shoulders
and chest and back are all exercised-the
arms and the hips and knees. Rowing
fills ont the arms, but il is hard on the
hands. Dumb-bells and Indian clubs are
likely to make one rather muscular above
the elbow. OF ali things swimming seems
the best for lungs, skin and muscles too;
but ask your doctor. Washing every
morning above the waist in hot water,
rinsing in cold water, and drying briskly
will keep the skin hard and white and
cultivate the pretty blue VEINS that are
ready to show about the shoulders and
neck. The hot water clears the skin g
pores, the cold shuts them up and makes
the texture firm and elastic. aud the rub
bing sets the blood in motion. If all this
is done once or twice a day your skin can
hardly help being nice, can it? OF
course, if you can stand it, q bath oil
over of this kind is good; but believe me,
better not indulge too freely in the tub,
except with your Doctors permission.
1t is very English aud all that to take a
cold 'barth in the mawning, but it may
be jolly bad for you all the same, and no
one but your doctor can give you advice
about bathing. -
The lady gave some information which
may be of practical value to growing
girls, if not to matured women. "Your
shoulders she said, Twill not be
pretty if they are no. well poised. They
viii probably not be well poised unless
you stand so as 10 give the proper curve
of beauty down the back. What you
want is an absence of sudden, ugly. out
ward curve just below the wgist-iiue in
front-that ugly effect that makes the
chorus girls in the Amazon march so
many of them, look very tubby when
their figures show in profile-that unfor-
tunate fullness which the dressmaker
tries to counterfeit by gu enormous bus
tie, and which, when hustle is III place,
makes a woman look like bust OF her
self set on q hogshead. Have I said
enough to make my meaning clear?
Well, unless the figure has been ruined
by tight laoing, proper posing of the
spine will do away with this unsightly
line in front ard give it 20 you in thethack,
where it is graceful and beautiful. at
is flying in the face of the good Lord, -
said dear old lady at Turkish bath
place, ''to stand so the hustle he gave
you is in front, and then We wear an IN
holy one of horsehair on your back where
your own ought TO be.
CLARA BELLE.