The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-11
THE WAY TO BREATHE.
LIKEWISE HOW 4 WOMAN SHOULD
GO UP STAIRS.
Effect of Breathing on the Looks
How TO Cure UolIows in the Neck
Sensible Talk OF Fannie Edgar
Thomas.
Copyright, 1894 by American Press As
socia toni


walk. stand. ride, sit. kneel or move
attractively while compressed about the
| waist BY this do not mean tight lac
ing; i mean compression-that which
does not admit Of the widest expansion
of the entire trunk to its fullest extent
without consciousness of covering.
Lillian Russell in her corset costumes
and Lillian Russell in an oriental robe
are two different types Of women. The
most beautiful and the most homely
woman are both made more attractive
by having a trunk that can curve than
one that is straight. This does not re-
late TO health-simply to attractiveness.
Real tight lacirg-well, that is sub
| ject below discussion in this day and
generation. AS the professor said: Let
them alone. 1t is one way the Lord has
Of Kidding the world Of fools -
OF course some women there are who
| cannot dispense with the corset without
some form Of bust Superiority in
heavens name DO they not use the Cleo
patra corset? But in the name of
beauty leave the waist line not only
loose. but free.
| Aside from the looks, no one can do
anything until she can breathe You
see. the breathing apparatus of the body
is Just like bellows, the throat the
pipe. the lower stomach and back the
clappers. Nine women out of ten
breathe through the length Of the pipe
alone. They breathe through the throat.
Try it and see. How still the whole
trunk is instead of moving regularly up
| and down! The throat is but the pas
sage through which the breath may pass
after it has been pumped in by the lower
| body.
Every time you hear a singer or reader
draw in the breath sharply with a little
whiz, she simply draws a little bit of
wind into the pipe and pushes it out
again She has no control whatever over
her voice. She makes salt cellars"
| back of her collar bone and another in
/ the curve of her neck, because she draws
| in and enfeebles the muscles there in
stead Of swelling them out. Every wei
taught singer has plump neck and Shout
| ders. Clavicle breathing, or breathing
| down as far as the clavicle, only strains
| and stretches al the delicate muscles
| that lie close to the flesh. Where not
| heavily interlaced they cave right in nat
urally, like lining after the starch is
| out.
Stand erect, and breathe till you raise
| the chest and swell out the trunk with
| out pressing the two clappers Of your
| breathing apparatus together-in other
| words, breathing properly The muscles
II
| are fed by the passing breeze, and the
muscles are being made round and firm
| by exercise.
What should you do?
Fasten a light string or a feather in
| the curtain a little distance from you.
| Standing properly with the hands
pressed against the sides to indicate the
! expansion, drew in 4 full breath through
| the entire trunk and almost closing the
| lips blow the string or feather till it
| you can keep the movement up. A lazy.
| indolent girl, with hooped shoulders and
| novel reading eyes, will give out on
| eight. In a week she can count six
| teen, and so on. No matter where one
begins, the Improvement is bound to
come, and with it freedom, strength in
| the lungs, desire to stand straight long
| ing for the open air, an inclination to
| SMILE to go!
But you must not fail to walk little,
| increasing the distance each day. Count
| six steps while raising the chest-mouth
! shut-and six while letting It subside.
! Get in the habit Of eathing this way
/ always. To do it you win have TO stand
| straight and feel ambitious. 1t viii
make the eyes bright, the face express
| i've. 1t will fill out every hollow save
| the dimples. It will give you color,
| change the tone of your voice, make
| you sleep and eat. I firmly believe that
| half the deiicacy of men and women
would be cured by proper breathing If
you can afford ii, take singing lessons;
| if not. read, recite aloud. whistle. You
| should see the chest of Mrs. Alice Shaw,
| the whistler, since she made her unique
| art a profession. 1t is like that of a
! general and solid as il is round and
beautiful. The whole plan of physical
| culture or body identifying is based on
| correct breathing.
Stair climbing is feature of feminine
locomotion as peculiar as it is important.
| Says a prominent beauty cuIturist:
SHOW me a town of stairs, and I will
prophesy a town of thin. eye-circled.
| cross-loolSinG women" Yet the stairs
| are made a prominent feature i'm all
| gymnasiums for the increase of health
and beauty. The prophecy should be re-
| versed. Trained stair climbers are the
| healthiest as well as the most graceful.
women on earth. New York. with its
artificial elevated road stairs shows a
race of clumsy. drawn-faced, jaded look
| ing women among its neglected ones.
Baltimore. with its steep hills natural
stairs). shows in its women. who are
/ taught to mount them, the most grace
! full pedestrians in the world.
| The last thing a woman unframed i'm
| the art should do in the presence of her
| lover is to mount stairs before him Yet
| properly done no species Of locomotion
could be made more potent charm.
| First of all, going upstairs there should
be no wadding. There must be no
| rolling from side TO side-none what
ever-no trudging or humping as if the
main object were to punch holes in the
! steps, no leaning forward and no appar-
| ent WEAKNESS. Moreover, obeying the
| directions for correct breathing there
| need be no painting at the head of the
stairs. Compare these rules with the or
binary stafr-climber and see the re-
| suits.
The body should remain perfectly
! erect the step should be taken with the
| toe and the movement to the next step
be made with a springing motion-a
| caress Of the structure if you within
| stead of a kick. This produces a gradual
| graceful poetic elevation instead of a
| cumbersome hauling Of the body up
| ward, and places all the strain upon the
| muscles OF the calf OF the leg instead
| of the more tender ones of the middle
trunk. No wonder women nearly die
| climbing those stairsl 1t is all in the
| way they do II.
This slightly accented sprlnging from
| step to step leads to the true system Of
walking; hence the stairway is made the
walkers gymnasium and its correct use
a. cure.
You have but to observe the different
styles Of stair-climbing on the stages of
our theaters to realize that natural
| climbing does not produce either salts
| factory or similar results of expression.
| FANNIE EDGAR THOMAS.
Painting the Lily.
The mother who decks her debutante
daughter with diamonds is more ambi-
| tious for show than sensible. Youth is a
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