The Jersey City news., 1901-05-04

a
ior which very often the afflicted one
hersef is responsible. If one is in i'll
health 1t is different matters. Disease
VIII cause the lungs to shrink and con-
tract, and then depression of the chest
is unavoidable. Full, perfect development
OF the chest is as natural as red lips or.
prignt eyes. Breathe properly, carry
yourself with vim and use your backbone
instead OF harness made of steels, whale
Dones and pink satin. Then you will be
real flesh and bone woman, not fash
Ion plate held together with hooks and
eyes and braced UP with corset that
makes ones equator feel as hard as an
lax tree or a concrete pavement
The day Of the woodeny corset-leached
hgure has departed-praise be to the
gods! The present mode is the rational
one of natural soft lines. The slender
woman entirely shuns corsets and wears
cunning little girdle of tapes or ribbons
rhat brings absolute comfort and yet
holds the abdomen in place and gives
support for petticoat and gown Now she
knows the joy of full lung expansions
privilege which civilized women have only
acquired in recent years. The girdle is
worn loose enough that the breathing can
come from the diaphragm Now let me
suggest some exercises which will make
you as supple as a Hindu acrobat
Stand in doorway-a narrow doorway
preferred. Place the palms of the hands
nat on the door casing, the tips of the
fingers being placed at the height of the
shoulders. Walk through the door with
out removing your hands until you are
the length of your arms away. At first
you will declare you cannot do it, but
Keep on day after day and the first thing
you know you will become so supple that
you will float through the door after the
hygienic fashion just described. And it
is such fun; ask your friends to try it,
lit looks so easy-but it isn't. This exer-
else draws back the shoulder blades,
bringing into play all the important chest
muscles. 1t will make your throat full
and pretty, and the bony girl will find
that it will help fill up the ugly hollows
in her neck and throat and chest Night
and morning walk through the doorway
fifty times.
Breathing exercises are Invaluable if
one would have a high chest, firm, full
bust and a waist round and supple Ma
ture did not intend US to waddle about
with dropping chests, looking like con-
sumptives ready to give up. Expand
your lungs to the limit. Raise your chest
and keep it raised. Practice the exer-'
cises as they are given here, but make
it a rule to breathe correctly all the time
1t is quite as necessary to get all the
bad air out as it is to get plenty of fresa
air in. When you rise in the morning
slip on a bath robe and bedroom Slip
n,,o, Az
ing exercises without perfect ventilation
in the room is to waste your time.
Place yourself in an erect, easy posi-
ton, with one foot little forward, al
lowing the weight to rest upon it. Put
the arms akimbo, with fingers pressing
on the abdominal muscles in front and
the thumbs on the muscles on either side
of the spine. Hold the head straight and
the hips back the same with the shoul-
ders, chest high and full. Take deep,
tranquil breath, but one that will cause
the chest to rise and fall fully and free
ly at every effort. Do this twenty times.
In the act of Inspiration take in as much
air as you can hold. In the act of respi-
ration give out as little as possible This
is particularly necessary in effusive
breathing, which is excellent for chest
development. Draw in full breath and
send it forth in a prolonged sound of the
letter H. Never mind if you do sound
like a steam radiator ready to explode.
You will get chest. and the girl who
laughs and sneers will not.
Exercise in expulsive breathing Draw
in full breath and emit it with a lively
expulsive force, still clinging to your H
sound. Do not prolong it like you do
in your effusive breathing. Let it be a
sort of snort, the breath being projected
into the air. Before going to sleep give
your lungs an air bath. Lie fiat on the
back with no pillow under the head
Place the arms close to the sides, then
inhale and exhale slowly, allowing your
self rest of five or ten seconds be-
tween breaths. Do this fifteen times
Then, with arms extended straight out
across the bed breathe slowly and deep
ly- fifteen times more. You will sleep
like a top, unless you have been filling
up on Wesh rarebit or crab ravigotte la
Bellevue. Girls who do these rash things
do not come to the Round Table, SO we
won't even think about them.
Ada c. Sweet in the May "Womans
Home Companion, writing of what she
says is the national fault of our girls,
says
1T is painful to enlarge upon the lack
of reverence. which is the second great
cause of our national trait of bad man
ners. Every one should strive to make
up in mature life for the irreverence
which has marred childhood and youth.
A'>fine character is impossible without
great ideals, without awe for what is ma
jestic, respect for human achievements,
reverence for all good, human or divine.
The boy who calls the President of the
United States by nickname, or the girl
who writes to him Familiarity asking for
his autograph or photograph are to be
pitied. They have not yet learned even
respect for a great station conferred by
the suffrage of a mighty people. They
look down and nod at the President The
flies patronize the lion.
1.-The great German Goethe in. the great
est passage in all his novels teaches that |
there are three reverences to be learned:
First, reverence for what is abov us;
for God, and for all those who show His
power and truth. Second, reverence for
those on level with us, as each human
soul is a particle Of Divinity. Third, and
greatest of all, reverence for all below
us, especially those in poverty. suffering |
and humiliation. This last lesson Goethe