The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-03-02
Sleep ON Your Back.


Here is the latest development in phys
zeal culture: Sleep right and you will
grow younger II, s chance to grow
young, healthy and beautiful while you
sleep. Wrinkles may be removed and
deep lines will be softened, and yet no
money need be spent. A youthful ex-
preston may be given to the face and
yet no time need be wasted in Delsarte
exercises.
A physician culturist has arisen who
has new theory IN regard to the cor
rect way, to lie while sleeping. Nine.
t'ote is her name, and for her theory
she claims much. 1t revolutionizes all
ideas in regard to sleeping ever given in
the past.
She says: away with the pillows.
An Il, women men, sleep with their heads too
Not even worry will make woman
grow wrinkled and old so rapidly as
ss SIeaps VIII WITH her hea d on high pillow
your head on a level with your body,
and, better still, rest it for while even
lower than your body.
And here is the philosophy of it: All
during the day, when the head is held
in its normal position, the muscles of
the face drop, and when the tissues are
wrinkles come. At night we should coun-
teract the dropping of the muscles. We
should try and lift the tissues up. By
sleeping with the head on a level with
the body, the dropping lines which give
an expression of care and age to the face
gradually disappear.
mended by Nine. Pote: Always before re-
tlrlng press the fingers hard upon the up
per part Of the face and rub upward
Inns brings into play the opposite move
ment OF the muscles. All day their ten
dency has been downward droop. At
night rub them upward. 1t is we'll to
remember that opposition movements, if
practiced regularly, always produce har-
monlous developments. If the skin il
dry, it is wise to apply thoroughly pure
cold cream each night before beginning
the upward rubbing movement
But it is not alone sleeping without pill
lows that Nine. Pote advocates. She also
says: Lie flat on your back. It's all non.
sense about bad dreams. 1t is the most
healthful position one can assume whe,
going to sleep. Lie flat on the back, and
for strengthening a weak back, let the
spine touch the bed it's entire length
This will strengthen the spine and ten(!
to make one stand erect. While lying on
the back the spine should be curved out
ward, instead of inward at the waist
line
Now for the arms. Instead of falling
at the sides, Nine. Pote says: Raise thH
arms so that the hands are parallel with
the head. This position will raise the
bony frame of the chest from the lungs
The effect of this will be to give the
lungs the fullest amount of space com
patible with the fact that they are en-.
closed by the ribs, thereby making respi
ration more easy.
LAS is well known, one of the firsi
signs OF approaching sleep is deep and
even breathing. Even an obstinate cas-.
OF insomnia may often be cured by fore.
ing ones self to breathe slowly and regu
larry, and it can easily be seen how much
the position Of the arms mentioned in the
foregoing will aid in obtaining entire re-
Taxation and the consequent rest of the
muscles.
ut should be remembered that we are
! but creatures Of evolution, and that the
erect posture which we assume is in
Scme respects not the one best calcu.
| lated to bring out the most graceful of q
| woman's curves. All day long every
woman has to support the weight of he,
| arms and shoulders. The necessity tends
! to shorten the muscles which underlie
and support the curves of the bust. II
| is the woman who lounges-the woman
| who rests-that obtains the best figure
ana she does it simply because she IN:
consciously stretches and exercises the
| muscles of her bust whenever she locks
her hands above her head and let's her
sell drop back among the cushions.
10 many women this particular posi-.
ton would not be comfortable. and as =
matter of fact it is not particularly
beneficial, for the close interlockinc OF
the fingers will interfere with the circu.
iatlon of the blood in the hands, and if
persevered in will infallibly distort the ,f
knuckles- 1t is therefore very much
better to adopt the new position which
L mention, thereby obtaining not only
rest but beautiful curves.
Inc average woman" continues
madam, ruins her figure and adds dis
nfgurlng lines to her face by the position
she assumes when sleeping. In the FIRST
place, she lies on her Side, with he' o.
head on a high pillow. And though
TINS has been advocated as sure cure
Tor insomnia, it is also a sure produce,
OF wrinkles and tends to give the face
drawn expression.
The Japanese women have skins as
smmoth as satin. and to sleep with thei1
heads on pillow is thing unknown tc
upon little block OF wood and sleer
all night with their heads on a leye
with their bodies.
The American women cuddle I'M in q
heap when they go to sleep, and de-
clare they are perfectly comfortable
And this is what happens: Their chests
are. contracted. their shoulders rounded
their entire circulation is retarded, and
the action Of the heart and lungs i'm.
pared; And in the morning they Won
der why they are not feeling more rest
1.-The woman in need of physical
strength, the woman anxious for q well.
rounded, symmetrical form and an I'M
Wrlnkled face, should learn to lie cor.
rectly while sleeping" New York Jour.
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