The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-04-28
BIDDING DEFIANCE TO TIME.
Exercises for Muscles of the Face will
Help Women to Look Young.

Exercises for Muscles of the Face will
Help Women to Look Young.
In these days physical culture has de-
veloped into a veritable science, and
wrinkles may be erased and rounded
out lines preserved by exercising lit
tie knowledge and taking little trou-
BILE. while IL is well known fact that
n serene mind will give youthful ex-
preston to the eyes and keep the brow
smooth ami unfurrowed by time.
My pupils" said n successful pro-
fessor of the art of physical culture,
range from ten TO fifty years of age,
and find that the human body is ca
pable of being nodded into forms OF
beauty and strength much later than is
generally supposed. The facial mus
cles especially. which are apt to be al
most if not entirely neglected, may be
so developed that a face that has al
ready dropped into the unbecoming
lines of age will assume again the
rounded curves of comparative youth.
Plump firm muscles are vastly differ
ent from fatty development, which, al
though it may fill out face in n way,
will not give a good contour and some
times rather adds to the appearance OF
age than otherwise. whereas the culti-
vation 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 appear
ance Of the lower muscles of the throat
which is so disfguring."
The following exercises are rccom@
mended for filling out and developiu0|
the muscles of the face; First, smilo'
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 at
the same time. Continue to do this un-
til tired. The fingers should be placed
high on the cheek bone, so that the
muscles when smiling will push against
them, thus giving the desired resist
ance which is necessary to the enlarge
ment of the tissue. The second exer-
else is to again smile broadly. but this
time. instead of allowing the corners
of the mouth to be curved upward, try
to draw them out in a straight line to-
ward the center of the cheeks, then
! place the two thumbs one on each cor
ner of the mouth, and work the corners
backward and forward by relaxing and
contracting the mouth. Exercise No.
three is with the chin. Press the lower
lip upward and it will be seen that the
chin will I've raised and become hard
crook the forefinger SO as to make a
half circle and put IL over the point OF
} the chin, pressing it against the latter
Us it rises, and relaxing the pressure
/, instantly as il assumes its normal po
sition. In this exercise the teeth should
! be kept closed. Most faces that ar,
thin are apt to be hollow between the
upper and the lower jaw, and two ex
! ercises are recommended for filling GU
/ the cheeks Take two small pieces o
India rubber. such as come in the end
of pencils, and insert on each side o
!, the mouth, between the back teeth
: close the teeth on them and chew
e spreading the teeth only far enough
e apart to keep the rubbers in their plac
and shutting them with all the foro
A possible. After this put the fQgeG1nr
: in the mouth and rub IL -aG0
cheek, pressing il outward
Il way, reaching as far back as - -
sible II is said that by reguI1fly fol
d lowing these simple exercises daily Tn
face may be kept rounded and firm i
its outlines, and that even old and rc
laxed muscles may be greatly strength
a ened and improved.-N. y. Tribune.