Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-11-25

sages. Now it streams naturally through
straight tubes and pipes. Here is the
healthful side of correct standing po-
sition, aside from all considerations of
beauty.
No matter how rotund or slender,
tall or short. you may be, just try il
and see-abdomen back. chest up. toes
out-what Il diiferencel
Now to timber up. Stand correctly,
hands on hips, turn the head round as
far as possible either way, then forward
and back. keeping the body perfectly
still, so that the muscles are slightly
stretched each time. Study the pose at
which the chin should be raised or low
cred to give most prettiness and charm
to You. Some women look best with
the head tipped back little. some when
it is dropped slightly; with some slight
tilt of the chin to tho right or left
some certain placing Of it in relation to
the shoulder, makes all the difference
in the world-may transform an unin-
teresting woman into an attractive one.
No, it does not make you conscious and
unnatural; it becomes unconscious as
breathing and then you have it, What
sum You would be willing to pay for
that much added charm. could you see
it given to you artifcially as false
bang is. II brings out instead Of hiding
your best points. Why, you do this
with your dressmaker: why not with
your persons, which are ever so much
more impressive?
Next, stretch ont the arms. Twist
and shake loose the wrists. swing the
arms straight, slanting up and ont.
loosening the sockets, and strengthen
ing the muscles under those hollow col
( larbones. Hands on hips twist the body
as you did the neck, going as far as
possible each way-everything slow
and swinging. not short and jerky.
A good test Of lengthwise suppleness
is this: Bend the body over without
bending the knees and see how near you
come 10 touching the floor with your
fingers. You come within a foot Of IL
perhaps at first, the distance growing
gradually less and less with practice.
Some who could not at first touch the
floor by several inches come to lay the
hands fiat upon il after time. Think
of the increased laxity Of muscle in the
calves Of the legs evidenced by this.
OF course one does not want TO break
the back or strain the muscles by try
/ ing to do this the first time-very few
can. Go very gradually or you will
certainly hurt yourself. To prepare
for it. draw the arms back and over
the head as II for diving. The muscles
are then gradually stretched without
straining. 1t is like tuning a piano or
guitar-so far and no farther.
/ An exercise which combines all the
upper half motions is this: Turn the
body from the waist up round to the
left as far as ever you can, then down
way down--sweeping the floor with
the hair as it were, across and up at
the right side, keeping the feet faced
front and the front faced sidewise: then
down to the right, across and up at the
left, then down at the left, across and
up at tho right and so ON, keeping the
front faced sidewise as much as posi-
Bile. and not allowing the feet 10 turn.
Raising the arms above the head, let
them swing with the directions Of the
body. the head also moving On the
neck to correspond. This really makes
pivot Of the W INST line and swings the