The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-11
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sages Now it streams naturally through
straight tubes and pipes. Here is the
healthful side of correct standing po-
sition, aside from ell considerations of
beauty.
No matter how rotund or slender.
tall or short, you may be, just try it
and see-abdomen back, chest up, toes
out-what difference!
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 Mt
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 the 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 1t. What
a sum you would be willing to pay for
that much added charm, could you see
it given to you artifcially-as false
bang is. 1t 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 out the arms. Twist
and shake loose the wrists, swing the
arms straight, slanting up and out,
Ioosening the sockets, and strengthen
ing the muscles under those hollow col
larbones. Hands on hips twist the body
"a Won did the neck, going as far as
possible each way-everything slow
and swinging, not short and jerky.
A good test of lengthwise suppleness
Ia this: Bend the body over without
bending the knees and see how near you
come to touching the floor with your
fingers. You come within foot OF II
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 fat upon it after a time. Thlnk
of the increased laxity OF muscle III the
calves of the legs evidenced by TINS.
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 VIII
certainly hurt yourself. To prepare
for it. draw the arms back and over
the head as if for diving The muscles
are then gradually stretched without
straining. 1t is like tuning piano or
euitar-so far and no farther
An exercise which combines all the
MINER half motions is this: Turn the
BODY from the waist up round to the
left os far as ever you can, then down
way down-sweeping the floor WIFI
the hair a. 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 inc
left. then down at the left, across and
ND at the right and so on, keeping the
front faced sidewise as much as posi-
BILE. and not allowing the feet TO 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
a pivot of the waist line and swings the
upper body free from it, combining all
the previous exercises OF neck, shoulder.
wrist and waist, and making unison Of
motion-which is grace.
The trouble with feet is that they are
too dependent one upon the other. Try
to draw ON your stocking while stand
ing and see how You wriggle and joggle.
One should be able to support the weight
of the body on one foot without effort. a
graceful woman never founders,
blunders, falls or trips when met by
sudden surprise or obstacle in crowded
place. There is no collision or bump
Ing if one steps on the train of her
dress. meets her in a narrow doorway.