The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-14
HEALTH WITH GRACE.
Mas Helen Bfsrer Tells How Physical
Culture WIN Improve the Ladies'.

Mas Helen Bfsrer Tells Row Physical
Cuiture VIM Improve the Ladies'.
Charming woman, the world generally
believes that when she will, she will, :"
and just now she is willing herself 70 be
beautiful with frantic eagerness that
ought-if there IL any basis TO the popular
belief in feminine persistence-to trans
form American women into an army Of
Venuses.
"A woman is, physically. just what she
makes herself She can have good CON-
plexion il she wants it. She can have q
beautiful. graceful form If she wishes. IL
she 10 sallow, pimplsd, angular and awk-
ward. il is all her own fault"
This Ia the gospel of exercise and beauty
Of which sc have all read so much and of
which Miss Helen Bierer, one of the high
priestessss Of the physical culture move
ment. breaches TO thousands of anxious
pupils. and IL Is this that she will talk 10
audiences at the Seattle theater this and
Saturday afternoons. To begin with, she
looks what she processes to be, woman in
perfect health. With her full, white
throat sloping to q perfect chest. her
round. white arms. and strong, slender
hands, her supple aist and the beautiful
curves beneath the arms following the line
OF q statue. she takes one back to the free
dom and grace of the ancient ideals.
"It seems supernuous." said Miss
Bierer. lin this day of crooksd-shaped and
angular-formed people 10 urge the great
benefits Of physical culture. Many habits
are inherited. and ungraceful attitudes are
among them. Grace is the nat ural atti.
tude OF The person, and it is only when We
acquire bad habits that we become I'M
graceful! and must unlsarn what we have
learned unwittingiy. The exterior reflects
the interior: the soul acts through the
body. and in turn the body is governed by
IL. Physical training 10 conducive TO
mental growth and moral power: wrong
attitudes grow out of wrong bodies.
"Poisins 10 necessary to graceful car
riage and gait. and much wanting. for
indeed il is an amusing yet melancholy
thing TO watch how women walk. Here is
a pretty woman coming along the street
Let us watch her. Flip flop. flip flop 60
her feet as she plants first her heel and
then her toe. She has . pretty figure,
too. but her hips sway from side to side,
and she leans forward until she looks as
though she is going TO tumble down in a
heap. Look at that plump, rosy girl over
"
bird-iike gait, most awkward aud ungrace-
fnI. and resembling a turkey walking
through long grass more than anything
else. Here comes fat woman who toddles
about the sidewalk and gets i'm every
body's way. and bumps and waddles along
duck fashion: while every one knows the
iong-stepping female of gaunt aspect. who
stalks through the streets like grena-
der. Then there Is the timid woman,
who looks as shaky as house of cards
and whose uncertain step Is distressing To
see. and the poky woman whose chin
clears the way for her feet In O whole
afternoon you won't see more than three
or four women who walk with average
grace. There is not enough attention
paid 10 this important part of personal ap-
pearance. but IL women will only practice
posing in their own rooms every morn
ing there will soon he an Immense differ
ence noticeable in their manner OF walk