Mesa free press., 1898-03-04
QUESTION OF MUSCLE.
Pretty Mech and Shoulders Will Como
from Exercise.

from Exercise.
ga pretty neck is only a matter OF
MUSCLE" said a young woman to her
two chums, who were admiring the
marble-hued softness of her shoulders
as the three sat dressed for the hop at
Nara agansett Pier. II never look at
the pictures Of Sandow or John L. Sui
Ivan without thinking how lovely they
would look in evening dress-I mean
girls evening dress, Of course"
"Oh, horrors! Virginia, what an ab
surdity. Think Of prize fighter in loD
neck and short sleevesw
II don't wonder that you laugh, !,at
you'll be more surprised when tell
you that 1t was just that absurd iGea
that led me to try developing ny nS'ck.
1t was the summer before cailio OUT;
I was to be debutante the next VIII
ter. My neck was SO thin that my CO..
lar bones grinned at me every time
looked In the glass. Ir' glue debu-
tante with collar bones"
The others looked tbe DIR III .9t, The
speaker expected, ard sAs w,,,t ou:
Nov, this is all ] CD, .lnG IL ytu do
the same for ten INMATES Higlt and
morning you will notice difference in
month.
eff you examine closely the pictures
Of Sullivan or any Of those prize fight
ers you will notice that they usually
carry their heads with the chin forced
back close to the neck. If you try to do
this you will find that your head
straightens up as If you had stiff
neck and your chest rises an inch or
so. OF course it will be mostly the
bones that rise, but don't be frigl tened
at the ghostly apparition. Jusc keep
pushing your head back as fa1 as pos
sible without bending the neck, always
keeping the chin in.
Then turn the head around to the
right and left as far as it will go, with
the chin in the same position. The hard
est exercise is to throw the head back
and bring it forward with a jerk until
the chin fairly slaps the chest. It is
one on the prize fighters favorlte exer-
cises to develop the muscles Of his
neck, and I thought might as well try
to cover my bones in the same way.
Anyway, it's very simple. 1t certainly
does no harm to try it, and in any case
have my own experience as testimony
to its efficacy.
"In taking the exercises it is a good
plan to draw deep breath and> hold it
as long as possible while turning the
head from side to side or pushing it
back"
Here. are some Of the military exer-
cises which girls who want to reduce
the waist without tight lacing, or who
object to wearing corsets at all, may
try to advantage, confident that, if per-
sisted in, these are bound to make the
waist longer and more slender:
/. Stand straight, with arms at sides
and palms to the front; then raise the
arms up over the top of the head until
the thumbs touch, and drop slowly
down again.
2. Hold the arms straight out in front
of you, palms down, and then move
each around gradually to the side and
back again, keeping them on the same
level.
3. Stand with the arms stretched as
far apart as possible, making perfect
cross with the body, and describe small
circles with each arm, using the shoul-
der as center.
The exercise of slapping the backs Of
the hands together behind the back is.
good for both small waist and full
neck, but it is 50 common that it Is
hardly worth mentioning. New York
Herald.