The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-21
BEAUTY AND HEALTH.
A Woman Physicians Advice to
Womankind.

Before one OF the New York work.
ing girls clubs DIR. Louise Fiske Bry-
son recently gave an address upon
Beauty as a Means of Health"
While acknowledging the impossible
ity of any protracted happiness with
out virtue, and the maintenance of
beauty's fine edge without goodness,
the doctor affirmed that systematic
efforts to be beautiful will insure a
fair degree of health, and hat happi-
ness is the best safeguard against
vice.
The difference in appearance be-
tween one woman and another, 1t was
stated, is more than anything else an
affair of style-that beauty of beauties
SO hard to define and so easy to recog-
nize. which makes that girl of 10
colored hair, features of Indifferent
turn, and lines none too perfect, in
hnitely more attractive than other
maids of faultJess curves and innumer-
able strong points not cemented by
this magic quality.
Style may be defined, for want OF
something better to express IL, as an
attractive manner of holding the
body, q firm, graceful way of doing
things and OF moving about. 1t is the
visible sign of inherent power and re-
serve force. 1t is the outcome of long,
deep breaths and the use OF many
muscles The prayer OF the New York
child, Lord. make US very Stylish"
when viewed Alright, is recognized as
an aspiration based upon sound scien-
tific principles, and worthy of univer-
sal commentator.
Proper breathing is the first art to
cultivate in the pursuit of beauty.
The lungs have their w muscular
power, and this should be exercised.
The chest must be enlarged by full,
deep breathing, and not by muscular
action from without. Initiate the
lungs upward and outward, as if the
imitation were about to lift the body
off the ground.
Hold the shoulders on a line with
the hips, and stand so that the lips.
chin, chest and toe come upon one
line. the feet being turned out at an
angle OF sixty degrees. 1t is wrong to
make the bony structure do most of
the work in keeping the body up
right. The muscles should hold it in
POoiOAOhs
In walking, keep face and chest
we'll over the advanced foot, and cul.
tivate a free, firm, easy gait, without
hard or jarring movements. 1t is I'M
possible to stand or breathe Alright If
the feet are pinched. When correct
posture and breathing are interfered
with the circulation is impeded, an
deleterious substances in the blood
tend to make the complexion bad.
This is one OF the many evils of tight
shoes.
To be we'll siiod has a marked influ-
enc on style. The feet symbolic the
body in their way as much as the
hands. A clever shoemaker says that
in a w~ell-fitting shoe the human foot
feels like a ducks foot in the mud. 1t
is held firmly in place, but nowhere
compressed. Nothing can exceed the
vulgarityand hygienic wickedness of a
shoe that is manifestly too tight.
Next TO the search for style pure
and simple as a means of health, the
care OF the complexion and the culti-
walton Of the right kind of expression
are of great Importance. The first is
largely a matter of bathing and the
general hygiene of the skin, while the
second-a good expression-is best Sc
cured by the constant preference of
higher thoughts over lower ones. This
is the essence of intellectual living,
and is fortunately within reach of
us all.