The Bossier banner., 1894-04-05
HOW TO LOOK YOUNG.


Muscles In Healthy State.
Good women age slowly" they saw;
and again it has been said: women
whose lives are full, and whose facul-
ties are actively employed, also age
slowly" Another well-known author
speaks of "the charm over which years
have no power-something greatly SUI
perior to beauty and which is more to
be desired" Perhaps, if we could COM
bine perfect moral with perfect physic-
al culture, we would arrive finally at
the ideal woman, ''nobly planned" to
whom age only comes as the full devel-
opment and death itself as merely the
gentle detachment of fruit fully ripe
from the tree
While we may not be able to enjoy
immortal youth, however, or even to
attain to the highest attitudes of which
we are capable, it seems to be general
ly conceded that age can be warded off
for many years by judicious care, and
that it is more or less matter of per-
sonal choice as to whether the mind
and the body shall be allowed to grow
old prematurely. In these days physic-
al culture has developed into science,
and wrinkles may be erased and round
ed out lines preserved by exercising a
little knowledge and taking little
trouble, while it is well known fact
that serene mind will give youthful
expression to the eyes and keep the
brow smooth and unforrowed by time.
MY pupils" says a successful pro-
fessor of the art of physical culture,
range from ten to fifty years of age,
and find that the human body is cap
pable of being nodded into forms of
beauty and strength much later than
is generally supposed. The facial
| muscles especially, which are apt to
be almost, if not entirely, neglected
may be SO developed that face that
| had already dropped into the unbe-
coming lines of age will assume again
the rounded curves of comparative
youth. Plump, firm muscles are vast
| ly different from fatty development,
which, although it may fill out a face
in way, will not give good contour,
and sometimes rather adds to the ap-
pearance of age than otherwise
whereas the cultivation of the muscles
| of the face and neck not only fills up
| the hollows, but causes the flesh to
have firm, healthy look and prevents
the relaxed appearance of the lower
muscles of the throat which are so dis
| figuring"
The following exercises are recon.
mended for filling out and developing
the muscles of the face: First, smile
as broadly as you can; then place three
fingers on the bunched-up portion OF
the cheek, and allow the features sud
denly to relax, raising the fingers al
the same time. Continue to do this
until tired. The fingers should be
placed high on the cheek bone, SO thai
the muscles when smiling will push
against them, thus giving the desired
resistance which is necessary to the
enlargement of the tissue.
The second exercise is to again smile
broadly, but this time, instead of al
lowing the corners of the mouth to bt
curved upward, try to draw them ou
in a straight line toward the center o.
the cheeks. then place the two thumbs
one on each corner of the mouth, ant
work the corners backward and for
ward by relaxing and contracting tht
mouth. Exercise No. is with tn,
chin. Press the lower lip upward, anC
it will be seen that the chin will b,
raised and become hard; crook th'
forefnger SO as to make a half-clrcl
and put it over the point of the chin
pressing it against the latter as it rises
and relaxing the pressure instantly a
it assumes its normal position. In thi
exercise the teeth should be KEEP
closed.
Most faces that are thin are apt to b
hollow between the upper and tn
lower jaw, and two exercises are re
commended for filling out the cheeks
Take two small pieces of India rubber
such as come in the end of pencils, an
insert on each side of the mouth be
tween the back teeth, close the teetl
on them and chew, spreading the teetl
only just far enough apart to keep tn
rubbers in their places and shutting
them with all the force possible. Afte
this put the forefnger into the mout
and rub it against the cheek pressing
it outward in every way, reaching a
far back as it is possible. 1t is sal
that by regularly following thes
simple exercises daily the face may b
kept rounded and firm in its outlines
and that even old and relaxed muscle
may be greatly strengthened and in
proved-N. Y. Tribune.