The morning times., 1896-07-12
LINE OF BEAUTY.
How to Secure the Ideal Trim
Waist.

with ten minutes between each exercise.
After a woman has stretched out her arms
and slapped herself upon the body under
the arms allow her to rest ten minutes
before doing it again.
The rotary motion is very good for back
and hip development. Your angular women
should gently take the rotary mnt:on every
day. minute at a time. 1t consists i'll
swinging round upon the hips. 1t is hard
and will give an ache in ones weakest spot
unless carefully done. l have given 1t up
except in very thin. scrawny cases then II
is worth the trouble.
1T is rot good practice to touch the ell
bows behind YOU. 1t hollows the back.
Better to tGuci, the fingers above the head.
II had thin. angular back shOuie.
pad it by touching my hands together
above my head twenty times day. with
intervals between.
.The last motion can give for rounding
the Rack is done with the pressure Of the
hands You have seen servant girls stand
with the hands upon the hips pressing the
waist in. Well. that very movement. done
without corsets, almost insures round
waist. 1t presses the ribs in place and
deveiopes the muscles around the spinal
column HAT is one of my test exercises,
and the Young lady in the other room will
take it UP today with instructions TO con
tinue it for several weeks tu come.
You want to know what exercise she
is taking now; for l said she would i'm
mediately tesin an exercise in the other
room. You will laugh when / tell ?ou.
She is sitting upon a bicycle in front of
a mirror and is watching herself as she
moves her arms. Her back is SO strong
that she can sit unsupported all day. ana
so round that it needs no more rounding.
But she must learn to keep it rs it is
She will do the Grm movements with
back unsupported in frcnt OF the mirror by
and by Now she is working a station
airy wheel. 1t will give her good lung
power. and that means ruundncss at the
sides.
..If YOU were to take a look in there
you would he still more surprised. You
would see her in evening waist doing the
exercises.
.'All my pupils take their lessons in even
ing waist, cut decc.lete in the back. With
u high waist they cannot practice and
cannot observe. Ny first rule is to come
here in evening bodice. They see the good
sense OF it at once. All their lessons are
taken in it, with the result that at the last
lesson they discard the corset and find the
waist is round.
II advise the corset. but my business
is TO change the contour of the back and
TO strengthen it, nd that must do without
aid from artificial bones and ribs.
About maj king the back beautiful.
There you get beyond my art to that or
the complexion specialist. Yet do pre-
scribe for my patrons. To make The body
pink and beautiful. like that of the throat,
leaveit exposed to the air as much as pos
sible. The thin summer waists help us a
great deal, but for all that the woman whois
going to shine in society and he noted for
her beautiful decollete advantages, must
spend Il hour every day with her back cx-
posed to the air. and even To the sun. If
she has Il cycle at home let her ride through
her parlor and hallways.
But my five-minute bell has rung twice.
and that means that my patient has wheeled
her five minutes upon the bicycle twice,
and is getting impatient to disnount.
GRACE LYNCH