Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-02
PHYSICAL GRACE.
Washington Struck Very Hard by an Ex
traordinary Fad.

Washington Struck Very Hard by an Ex-
traordinary Fad.
If you watched the dress parade on
Connecticut or Massachusetts, avenue
any of these afternoons, you would
very likely notice that the swell girls
have adopted fresh style of walking
their chests thrown out as far as posi-
BILE, without any throwing back of the
shoulders, however, and a certain in
describable spring in their gait. Upon
inquiring as to the meaning of this,
you would be informed that it repre-
sents only small part of the new sys-
tenn of physical grace, introduced from
abroad by lady who is now givi ng
lessons on the subject to the daughters
and wives of the richest and most dis
tinguished personages in Washington.
A class of young women meets at the
Wanamakers twice a week to learn
how to walk, to go up and down stairs,
to stand, to bow, to smile. to make
eyes and to dispose of the hands. 1t
need excite no surprise now to see three
or four pretty girls in the dressing
room, upon their arrival at a party,
wringing their hands frantically, as if
in violent grief All it signifies is that
they are making those memb uncon-
scious, so that they will be at ease in
company. This is portion of the new
method. II you don't know what to do
with your hands, you have only to let
them hang at your side and wiring them
vigorously for about five minutes before
making your appearance in the draw
ing-room; at the end of that time they
will be deprived of consciousness to
such an extent that you will have no
trouble with them for an hour or
so anyway. Do this once or
more every day, and you will
find yourself become much more
easy about your paws. through the
habit of the thing. The effect is said to
be really wonderful; for, you see, 1t is
simply that the hands are so highly ed
ucated in this mechanical age that they
may almost be said to have brains Of
their own. 1t is difficult not to be con-
scious of them, therefore, and that i'm
plies 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 a certain range the fe-
male of our species has an instructive
perception of the manner in which her
optical apparatus should be employed
upon her mplimentary creature in
pantaloons; but science has reduced the
subject to exact terms. Charts have
been prepared-Washington girls are
studying them-showing that the eye
has 729 distinct expressions, con-
veying 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 popularity i'm
agined that the eyeball itself is an ex-
pressive thing, but, as matter Of fact,
the ball of the eye has scarce any ex-
preston at all That all depends upon
the lids and brows. The upper lid does
the intellectual; its position is regu-
lated 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.
Certain 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 practicing the novel
science of ocular expression. Wash
ington Cor. Boston Transcript.