The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-18

If smooth, clear skinned shoulders are
among the chiefest of woman's beauties,
it is hard fate that gives her outstanding
shoulder blades. Yet once she comedies
the point and confesses to herself that she
is in danger Of having small, angular and
featherless' wings and that she would
rather be woman than an angel there is
little or nothing in the way of f1attening
that may not be accomplished with
judicious trying. And if it be, as it com
monty is, the shape rather than the meagre-
ness of her back, which is at fault, then
may she give herself the shoulders OF per-
feet womamhood, with the aid of little in
telligent patience, in very few weeks
time. Nethingis more likely than that she
is in the habit of throwing her shoulders
back to get an erect carriage and nothing
could be poorer policy. She is only giving
them dropping look and encourag-
ing the blades to set up in life on basis
truly independent and American. She
should rather cross her arms over her
chest, and then without lowering her
shoulders or in any way changing their
position she should drop her arms at the
sides. If she faithfully medicines herself
with this simple little prescription she
will raise her shoulders into a good posi-
ton, stop the pricking of the. wings and
smooth her back to tiatness NEST magically
After all, the carriage of the head is the
great difficulty. One woman in dozen
makes you feel, in the perfect poise of the
head upon the shoulders, the vibration of
the note of training. The other eleven talk
in the attitude of five minutes past O.; they
| run the head forward Or if not, they tip
it backward. Idiots, imbeciles and the blind
| tilt the chin or protrude it. The like atti-
tude IN gentlewoman destroys your
| pleasure in the most perfect back view
| Oddly enough, women with really fine
necks have the notion that by ornaments or
| trinketry they increase or at the least call
attention to their beauty. This Is fallacious
The gracious lines of the shoulders and the
sweep from the nape of the neck down the
terly destroyed by a necklace. Lovely
shoulders should be left to speak for them
selves. More especially should womer
with thin necks beware of the black velvet
band. There is a fancy that the bony
column is fattered and made plumper ant
younger by the soft rich ribbon, but blacl
always makes that which it girdles appear
smaller, and so the scrawniness is in
creased, especially from behind.
! It is wonderful that the average woman
has so little regard for your impression oil
the back Of her neck in the matter of hair
AS rule she outs the short hairs into
sort OF supplementary bang from ear tt
ear, and curls this and frizzes IT. till it looks
like the old fashioned raised border abou
a tieWer bed or the ''crewel'' fringe about
lamp mat" or the fuzzy growth GA Scot
fish moor. At the other extreme is tn
woman who gathers all her hair up to tn
crown and lets the short stringy lengths
stream backward at different angles abou
the base of the skull. Truly, backs are q
various as faces. and the little curls tina
ring themselves quite ANONYMOUSLY OF
some graceful necks and behind some shell
like ears are almost as expressive.
Fine shoulders are helped out amazingl,
by handsome arms, and vet secrets tina
the satin texture and the smooth contou
of the neck are slower to reveal, come on
4 now and then in the back of the elbow
There SEesasms that are well rounded an