The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-19


Every woman is just as young as she
looks, and any woman can continue to
look young as long as she keeps her fig
ure.
The lost figure is one that once was
round of waist, supple and fiat Of Shout
der, narrow of back, wide of chest, and
shapely of hip, the figure of your youth,
that by high living and lazy ways you
have allowed to grow thick and broad.
with bent shoulders, and long curved
spine, the bust thrust out, the head poked
forward. and the measurements increased
at a rate of ten inches all around.
A genuine figure OF fun, that at 80 is
outlived already in half the women you
meet and at 40 depends entirely on cor
sets for support, is the terror of the most
ingenious dressmakers, the despair of the
photographers, and the cross on ones own
life. It's the sort of iumpish, dumpy,
'knobby. absurd figpresthat makes a pretty
woman look old before her time, avoid
long mirrors, and drive her friends to
wondering how a creature SO tail and
erect at IS. at Sc is half a foot shorter,
A foreigner would attribute this to the
general Instability of all things Ameri-
can, but the woman herself is quite with
in the range OF redemption. At least hat
is what she hears at the various women
gymnasiums, where the building up of
figures is now a distinct and important
branch of the athletic business.
Most of our patrons said a tall.
brawny. blue-eyed Swedish woman. who
was In charge of the rescue work, bet
ter known as the figure department of a
popular gymnasium, range in age be-
tween 80 and 80. | never refuse an appli-
cant. for it's really never too late to mend
a broken figure. Numbers of dignified
grandmammas, with recollections Of their
girlhood's waist lines. come. for their
training and instruction three times a
week, and It's an impressive sight to see
a class of twenty-five sober-sided ma
irons, the least of whom tips the beam
at 175. lined up in knickers. fiat slippers,
and sweaters to learn a new movement.
1.-THE system consists of a series of ff-
teen movements, by which we guarantees
to reduce enlarged abdomens, restore
long-lost waist lines. brace up the
shoulders, strengthen and reduce the
bust. and pare down the biggest hips
This is done by taking off the overweight
of flesh in one place and putting it or
the thin arms and legs, where symmetry
demands it. and by picking up long mus
c,es and knitting them back into place
until, without the corset, the figure
shows self-sustaining and firm.
mo woman under a course of treat.
ment for her figure is allowed to eai
potatoes, white and hot bread. any richer
sweat than n,,ddt1r ana never a pastrv
Green Vegetables fruit. al the meats de.
sired h,,tter. sugar IN her tea and eof
fee and Gluten bread are advocated. ant
the ATTACK in reduction is made frs
e.snst the over developed abdomen ant
Like bins tbat VARY a woman
mora than an The other shortcomings o.
her ee,,rs nut toeether. The patient i:
made m lie nat On her hack on the hart
,nsvmnatbetie Amor hold tightly to som;
6xed obiect an sher own room bed les
= ira fling and then lift her legs from
tha Amor straight i'm ID the nefpendicu.
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when she can do this twenty time:
hand running she will begin To feel thu
muscles Of her stomach and abdomen
and althourh exercise after this fashion
leaves one blown and exhausted. it ough
a. once TO he followedabv a daily Eve
mile stint on an indoor DlCYciG,
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&c 800 -,
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See p.osiueo 80
. 80,
eise anu none or
On hsr couiSe = euue'io ao. ~
she must WorA a. lhe movements EYER
morning anu - isaslsone shoui ~ =
afternoon work. too, Win ner "inuo"
VIDE OPEN ana keep ats tne exercises a
nour al a time oeing eare1ui 70 nnisl
them at least forty n before eatine
From the bicycle Trip she must g
straight to the elastic exerciser, a nea
little affair that hangs on the wall, an
begin pulling 1t for dear life. She Set
another series Of important hip and ah
dominal muscles going by pulling tn
exerciser's handles SO low that wit
straight knees her knuckles touch tn
and carrying the handles high above he
head. After doing fifteen minutes, dut
bv the lower half DC the body, she mex
begins to reduce her bust measure b
standtnr her hack ID the exerciser an
letting the handles n,,ll her arms straiph
ont and hack 81 far a. thew viii 90 an
tban ~ nulIinr The handles down ove
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