Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-08-25
WHY NECKS ARE BONY.
AMERICAN GIRLS NEckS NOT As
PLUMP AS THEY SHOULD BE.

Irregularities In the Forms Of Hand
somo women-How Many Deformitiss
May 10 Corrected by Vigilance.
How many American girls do you know
with a well poised head supported by
graceful neck rising from straight, well set
shouldersf How many have arms OF which
It can by any stretch Of the imagination be
said, az Heine wrote Of the arms OF Grisi,
"They are those the Venus de Milo has
lostS" How many have not those horrible
hollows on either side Of the throat, known
for some mysterious reason as salt eel
lars, ;" instead OF kissing dimpless What
is the reason of it all, and what are we 60
ing to do about itf
One must be forgiven for a repetition OF
ancient history but it cannot be denied
that the corset Ia responsible for much that
Is disappointing in the beauty OF the
American throat and shoulders. A west
, ern physician, who has been devoting the
, past fifteen years to the study Of the hui
man figure, AYERS as the result Of his in
vestigations among different nationalities
that the American girl is deformed and
has waist all out Of proportion to her
body. =.
The average waist measure Is 80 per cent.
4 Of the height Of the figure, while the waist
t her stature. But the fragile American
woman wears a girdle that Is only "a per
: cent. of her height. 1t isn't romantic, but 1t
a IL true to say that woman's liver Ia larger
than mans, though her heart Is smaller,
y and she Is more disastrously affected by
pressure about the waist than man would
d be. The compressed liver IL the secret OF
g many bad complexion, but Of course has
n nothing to do with the hollows in the
neck.
0 The cage with which provident nature
has inclosed ones vital organs Is IN OBJ
IT stnate and aggressive piece Of mechanism.
You press 1t In about the waist and 1t Is
70 bound to throw itself out somewh ere, and,
n just to be aggravatinR, chooses that some
l. where in the most undesirable place. But
1t that isn't the worst Of 1t.
Take a young girl in the transition
AZ period, when from rapid growth all her
IN organs are easily disturbed and indolently
n inclined, and do her up in a corset, and the
r poise OF the body which is as delicate AS 1t
n. Is beautiful, is destroyed about the waist.
~ The body doesn't hold itself up at all, but
depends entirely upon the steel support,
ne and leans this this way or that, as the cor
set allows.
:" That throws the head out Of poise, too,
ed and lets 1t fall too far forward on the spine
d because it seems easier to support Itself
llt there; and so the different processes crys
10 tallize into womanhood, all out Of trim
lie and Just they happen to feel inclined
AK and that Is the chief reason that artists
sh complain that they find few women with ,
ed good back and shoulders, or II they hav'
lie those they develop an awkward angle a
py the neck by carrying the head too far for
ward, or have prominent shoulder blades
nR or a trick of carrying one side Of the figur
ID. in advance Of the other.
Corsets are not 30 detrimental to tn
en- fully developed woman as the ranters tr.
to establish, and a woman dressed In any
no thing but Mother Hubbard wrapper .
more comfortable with them than withou
lty them. IL mothers would insist on DRESSING
op their daughters in the loose, comfortable
frocks worn by children, and never intro
duce them to corsets until they were eight
cen years years old, there would be NOR
vas throats that didn't need covering, like tina
of beautiful Queen Louise, whose picture
ce. are always taken with scarf across tn
INK neck.
Another thing that mothers could do 3
his insure the beauty Of the coming woman
his to feed her well, for just at the time whe
his a girl needs most nourishing food she
his ant to cultivate a morbid taste for sweet
to meats and pickles, and few mothers appr'
his ciate that the diet OF such a girl need
quite as much supervision as that OF
'irf teething baby.
And, finally, taking lesson from tn
1.-the, straight peasant maiden, with u
per beautifully poised, graceful neck, VIII
ON spends her life carrying burdens on he
head, let the slight, STOPPING girl walk IL
'ok ten, twenty or even thirty minutes ds
with an ever increasing weight upon h
W" head. until the lazy muscles OF the throa
Nrvo nd mr.
way sciously hold the burden Of the head stea
lily and proudly in place
ign There is, Of course. no necessity Of ad
ing that light gymnastic exercises Of val
me- Gus kinds, and particularly outdoors, a
use more desirable than any OF the pate
on braces which are cruel TO wear as thu
are Intellectual in result But there a
nos plenty of women who were girls quite
time ago that are still obliged, throut
s. IL conventionality, to uncover neck al
shoulders Of which a cold and cruel wor
me- makes unkind criticism.
ick- Your efforts are not so certain OF succe
the as they would have been twenty years az
had but it's worth trying now to fill the hollC
III with firm flesh.
In the first place. don't take off 20
sad corsets, but loosen them. OF course
use, understand they are not tight now, a
gret you could turn around In them witho
unfastening their clasps, but unite
iuai laces and let your long, deep inhalatio
ying fix their size for a little while.
Tn Every night and every morning thr
wen your hands back until they strike behi
tory you, at first ten, then twenty, fifty. anc
hundred times.
With your chest held high and your e.
on the frieze of the room, take twenty I
'ent- breaths, inhaled slowly and exhaled
ceer- chilly.
APP Turn your head slowly around on
. 10 trunk one way until you see a few cons
has lations, and then give 1t a few turns
the other way all very slowly and careful
,gen- and only few times in the beginning. J
have heard all this before, but have ]
tried it, And II you did try 1t. how ms
nights In the week did you forget 1t, 0
from how many mornings were you too late
spend time' And how much over mol
NOW did you persevere In your effortsi
And while you are working thus alb
ciety your neck your arms will have been gr
hork ing plumper and fuller all the time alb
the elbows, and II you take pair Of duI
bells and turn them sharply and vigorc
epart " In your hands, the hands down at
gray sides, eight times, the hands stretched
a few at the sides the same number Of tin
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