The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-30

must stop talking for hours at a time.
That is the penalty you pay for your pro-
| fessional beautlsm."
Now l am going 10 teach you signs
and movements that require no speech
! and at the same time develop your figure.
To that extent l am a Delsartist. ! be-
| lieve you can say things with your body
and your hands and eyes. Those I will
teach you. And II you follow me well you
will be able TO be mute a long time with
out having your silence noticed. I have
often done this with my pupils by way
of experiment. l have visited with them
for an hour scarcely speaking. yet they
had no idea they were doing all the talk
ing. / can teach you the same thing.
You are in royal circles That is good.
Royalty does not want you to talk much.
II will do all the talking. They are fat,
| ungainly set, your royal English ladies',
except the Princess of Wales. and they
are good takers. You are the only Amer
lean girl now basking in the very light
of their smiles. The Princess Victoria is
happy since she lost Maude, only when
you are with her. That is excellent. You
see. must consider all things.
For a morning caller-for you receive
much in the morning-you can put on one
of your loose dresses and enter the morn
/ ing drawing room. OF course II is cur
tanned, and when you enter you look up at
the caller. You are short. You can do ad-
mirable little gestures. That look l am
showing you now. with my finger at my
lips. means a confidence, a speedy confess
sion 1t says: DO you know. 1 am sup
posed to be at the flower bazaar, and here
I am at home because expected you. How
perfectly delightfuly
your caller begins to speak. You are
spared for while. Then your turn comes.
You say little and the conversation runs
along. Your caller is delighted to visit
with so entertaining a person as yourself,
and you soon get in the habit of being
quiet.
"A pretty gesture for a quiet little wo-
man is the beseeching one. You clasp
your hands under your chin and look into
the face of the one who is speaking. That
look means anything from a thank you
so much to 1 beg that you will do it for
my sake The sense of the conversation
supplies the infection of the gesture. 1t
is a good one for any woman to learn.
For a preservation of figure calisthen-
les are advised. / prescribe them but in
the ordinary walks Of life. I teach a wo-
man to talk with her hands and arms and
that gives her exercise. 1t is pretty and
graceful.
All the emotions can be expressed by a
look, anger most of all! For this it is
the turn of the body, the reverse move
ment of the heae, $he hand turned from
the person, the carrying back of the other
hand. If anything is held in the hand its
slight uplifting is advised, as though to
smite the offending one. This is an adj
mirable gesture.
These are the things your ladyship
must study"
do you think can preserve my figure
and become graceful by these move
ments?' asked the duchess.
You certainly can" replied the Bos-
tonese.
One of the exercises prescribed for the
duchess was the daily walking up and
down the room for fifteen minutes at a
time several times a day. She is TO
take a step as long as her foot and
bring her foot down at right angles with
the leg, toe first This persisted in makes
graceful walker. 1t must be practlced
often and long. At first the step will seem
too long and the swing of the body too
great, but practice makes beautifully per-
feet in this.
Another exercise given the duchess was
the art of holding the chin up. With a
head held high many a homely woman
becomes charming. A beautiful woman
is positively bewitching with that tip tilt
ed chin. You have seen women whose
charm you could not define, and have
found it to be the way they held the
chin IN.
A very important part of the lean
process is the holding of the body for
ward Some women favor fat by leaning
back and resting constantly. If they will
get in the habit of holding the muscles of
the abdomen in check they will never
have that awful fitness noticed first in
embonpoint.
The duchess listened carefully to all the
words of advice and told several of her
intimate friends about it. She is a good
little thing to her country-women and
never a woman reporter who tries to talk
with her but comes away with a story"
She told a girl, a plucky American artist
in Europe all about her call from the
Boston girl, and that is the way people
have the privilege of finding out how the
figure of a celebrated beauty is being
preserved Helen Ward