Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-19
BEAUTY HINTS.
Mary Scott Rowland Tells How
a Woman May Obtain
and Retain a Pretty
Neck.
Copyright, 1892

Tight collars are highly injurious to
the beauty of the neck. For some time
fashion has dictated high, stiff col
lar to be worn on all occasions, and
| the result would be seen in the scraggy
recks exhibited if nine-tenths of the
women Of America were now to be
compelled to wear low necked gowns.
Thin necks are the result of INSULT
I GENTLY developed muscles. The mus
cles of the neck may be thoroughly de-
veIoped as those of any other part Of
| the body
There is little gymnastic exercise
which, if faithfully practiced, will not
! fail to transform the scrawniest neck
! into a throat like Annie Laurie's. 1t
will likewise, for women who are af-
| f1icted with necks so thickly cush-
toned with adipose tissues, reduce the
muscles into lines of grace and beauty,
/ A beautiful neck may be carried into
extreme old age if the woman who
covets it is willing to give up ten
minutes or a quarter of an hour every
day to obtaining and retaining it
A good time to exercise is just be-
fore going to bed. The exercise for
developing the neck is as follows:
First-Slowly but firmly bend the
neck forward until the chin almost
touches the neck, then very slowly
raise the head. Repeat this twenty
times.
Second-Slowly and firmly bend the
neck backward as far as comfort will
permit; then as slowly bring it back
10 position Repeat this exercise
! twenty times.
Third-Bend head sideways to the
right twenty times and to the left
twenty times.
Fourth-ROtary movements should
follow. Roll the head slowly to the
right twenty times, ten to the left
twenty times.
Deep breathing is invaluable as an
exercise for filing out the hollows Of
the neck on either side by the collar
bone. The breath should be taken
slowly through the nose, held as long
as possible and then as slowly exhaled.
The breathing exercise should be re-
peated fifty times.
After these exercises the neck should
be bathed with pure olive oil soap and,
after being rubbed dry with a soft
towel. should be anointed with retir-
ing cream.
Manipulation for about three min
utes each night and morning will sue
cessfully reduce a double chin.
This treatment tends to make the
skin soft and beautiful as we'll as to
mold the neck into lines of loveliness.
Do not give up because at the end Of
/ a week you may look in vain for Wis
ible signs of improvement. Nature
works slowly DO not exercise for a
! few days and then think you may safe
/ ly skip a day Regularity is demanded
/ to achieve any real success in any
thing.
Thin arms, like thin necks, are due
to imperfectly developed muscles, and
they, too, by gymnastic exercises, may
be made plump and beautiful or re-
duced from unwieldy thickness into
lines in accordance with natures plan.
( Professional gymnasts and prize fight
1 ers prove this. Their abnormal mus
+ Giles are. of course, not what is aimed
at. Only moderate exercise is demand
! ed for health and beauty. DumbbeIs,
rowing-artif1cial or real-Indian club
/ swinging, and many other exercises
taught in the gymnasium are con
/ ducive to the development Of the arms.
Punching the bag, a popular exercise
with prize fighters, is useful in perfect
ing the arms. Care should be taken to
avoid catching cold when overheated
from exercise.
The only way to whiten neck and
arms not naturally white in order to
improve their appearance when even
ing dress is worn is to use a good
balm made expressly for this purpose.
In regard to such preparations. it is
never safe to use cheap compounds. If