Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-06-17
WHY NECKS ARE B0NY.
AMERICAN GIRLS NEcKS NOT as
PLUMP AS THEY SHOULD BE.
why the Corset t. 10 niame for Many
Irregularities In the Forms OF Hand
pome women-How Many Deformities
May he Corrected by Vigilance.

Irregularities In the Forms OF Hand
home women-uow Many Deformities
May BE Corrected 10y Vigilance.
How many American girls do you know
W tn well poised head supported by
graceful neck rising from straight well SET
yhoulders9 How many have arms OF which
II can by any stretch OF the Imagination b.
snId, aa Heine wrote ~ the arms uf Grisi,
They are those the Venus dc Milo has
lokto How many have not those horrible
h6llows on either side Of the throat, known
for some mysterious reason "a salt eel
lars, !" instead of kissing dimplesi Whist
Is the reason of It all. aud what are we 20.
ing to do about t'
One must be forgiven for repetition Of
ancient history, bat ii cannot be denied
that the corset Is responsible Tor much that
Is disappointing iu the beauty OF the
American throat and shoulders A west
erin physician, who has been dcyotlng the
pAst fifteen years to the study Of the hu.
man figure. AYERS as the yesuitof his in.
vfstigations among different natiouailties
that the American girl is deformed and
hhs waist all out OF proportion TO her
body.
! The average waist measure Is 30 per cent
OF the height OF the figure, while the waist
OF the immortal Venus Is u per cent. OF
her stature. But the fragile American
woman wears girdle that l. only "a per
cdnt. of her height. II isn't romantic but IL
III true To say that a woman's liver is larger
than mans, though her heart Is smaller
and she Is more dl~astrOu-ly affected by
ptessure about the waist than man would
b. The compressed liver is tie secret Of
many bad complexion, but of course has
nothing to do with the hollows In the
neck
The cage with which provident nature
hhs incloSed ones vital organs Is an ob
stinate and aggressive piece of mechanism
| You press II ia about the waist and il Is
bbund TO throw itself out somew here, and
| t|st to be sggravating, chooses that some
where in the most undesirable place But
| that Isn't the worst Of IL.
| Take young girl IN the transition
period, when from rapid growth all her
organs are easily disturbed and indolently
Inclined, and do her up in Il corset, and the
pbise Of the body, which Is as delicate as ii
| "A beautiful is destroyed about the wal /
The body doesn't hold itself up at all, bnt
depends entirely upon the steel support.
ahd leans this this way or that, as the cor
sdt allows,
! That throws the head out Of poisc, too.
nhd let's il fall too far forward on the spine.
because 1t seems easier To support its.if
there; and the different processes crys
tAllize into womanhood, all out Of trim
ahd just as they happen % feel inclined,
ahd that Is the chief reason that artists
Complain that they find fe,y women with
Rpod baek and shoulders, or II they have
those they develop an awkward angle NJ
the neck BY carrying the head too FAR for
ward, or have prominent shoulder blades.
or a trick Of carrying one side Of the figure
ih advance OF tile other
| Corsets are not so detrimental TO the
fully developed woman rs the ranters try
Up establish, and woman dressed in any
thing but a Mother Hubbard wrapper il
more comfortable with them than without
them. II mothers would insist on dressing
their daughters In the loose, comfortable
fFocks worn by children, aud never intro.
duce them To cOraets until they were eight
cen years years old, there would be more
throats that didn't need covering, like that
of beautiful Queen Louise, whose pictures
are always taken with . scarf across the,
neck.
| Another thing that mothers could do H.
Insure the beauty Of the coming woman i
DO feed her we'll, for just at the time when
d girl needs most nourishing food she IL
apt to cultivate a morbid taste for sweet.
meats and pickles, and few mothers appre.
ciate that the diet OF such girl needs
Quite rs much supervision as that of a
teething baby.
! And, finally. taking lesson from the
1.-THE, straight peasant maiden, with the
beautifully poised, graceful neck, who
spends her = carrying burdens on her
head. let the sHsht, STOPPING girl walk for
ten, twenty or even thirty minutes day
with an ever increasing weight upon her
head. until the lazy muscles OF the throat,
through exercise, become frm, aud uncon
Aciously hold the burden OF the head stead
lily and proudly In place
| There is. OF course. no necessity OF add.
Ing that light gymnastic exercises Of yari.
dus kinds, and particularly outdoors. are
Inore desirable than any Of the patent
braces, which are as cruel To wear as thcy
are Intellectual In result. But there ars
plenty OF women who were girls quite A
time ago that ARE still Obliged, through
tonventionality, TO uncover a neck and
shoulders OF which a cold and cruel world
makes unkind criticism
Your efforts are not so certain Of success.
ks they would have been twenty years ago
but it's worth trying now to iii the hollow
with firm flesh
In the first place, don't take Off Your
torsets, but loosen them or course We
understand they are not tight now. aud
you could turn around in them without
hnfastening their clasps, but unite the
laces and let your long. deep tnhalatlons
tix their size for little while
Every night aud every morning throw
your hands back until they strike behind
sou, at first ten, then twenty fifty. aud a
hundred times.
With your chest held high and your eyes
on the frieze OF the room. take twenty fun
breaths inhaled slowly and oxhaled for
eibly.
Turn your head slowly around on the
trunk one way until you see few consteI
lations, and then give 1t a few turns the
other way. all very slowly and carefully,
and only few times Ia the beginning You
have heard ali this before, but have YOU
tried itf And II you did try It. how many
nights la the week did you forget II, aud
how many mornings we're you too late to
spend timer AMI how much over q month
did you perseyere IT. your effortsf
And while you are working thus shout
your neck your arms will have been grow
ing plumper and fuller all the time above
the elbows and II you take a pair OF dumb
bells and turn them sharply and vigorous
ly In your hands, the hands down at the
sides, eight times. the hands stretched out
at the sides the same number Of times
straight In front of you, over your head,
each eight times, you will know by the
aching muscles In your forearm that YOU
have exerctSaA them must ftfrfAa9fy