The San Francisco call., 1901-12-29
ing stiff-waisted or wooden.
Pose and ReDose.

being stiff-waisted or wooden-shouldered.
Pose and Repose.
Having learned how to balance the
body, TO stand properly and to acquire
poise of head and shoulders. the next eff
fort is pose and repose. that marks the
daughter of 4 hundred Earls. 4 visit
museums and art galleries" says one
deVotee, "and study effects. [ practice
them. too This is following the example
of the great Rachel. who believed that by
studying beings that were beautiful It
was possible in time to resemble them
AS child she was not blessed with any
great personal charms. but becoming en-
amored Of some OF the classic statues she
tells i'm her memoirs how any beauty she
possessed she owed entirely 10 her own e.
forts and determination. To work and
strive faithfully for perfection in a living
human body is a nobler purpose it has
been said, than to carve a perfect statue
out Of cold, lifeless marble-yes. the am
bition is as much nobler as the living.
breathing. warm body is more beautiful
than the cold, dead statue.
To learn to sit gracefully is an art and
not an instinct. The woman who under
stands the art-for art il is-gives no evil
dence of dominance OF one part of her
physique over another. Nor does she
lounge: she sits erect. because when in
perfectly upright position one may actu-
silly gain an inch or two in height. and it
is a principle of physical culturists that
the higher an organism is held the better
ii will fulfll its functions Erectness of
the trunk. a good pose Of the head and
graceful disposition of the lower limbs
are necessary if one would st we'll J. Is
good practice TO hold the BODY perfectly
erect for a few moments daily without
touching the chair back: sit well toward
the edge of the seat. with the right foot
slightly in advance Of the left. ready to
rise quickly without help from the hands
at an emergency. After a time prOlong
the few moments TO a half-hcur, and.
finally. elastic, sinewy and independent
viii those lazy muscles become 1t is in
doienCe. indeed, that makes a woman
awkward. She rises from a sitting pos
tuTe by placing her hands upon the arms
Of her chair or upon a table; she stands
with the weight of her body thrown on
one foot; she stumbles over rugs because
she will not lift her feet. and she does the
half-hundred other stupid things that
cause her to suffer so by comparison with
the alert. erect. well-poised woman. who
never iOosens her hold on the rcns of her
muscular personality. This she learns to
do without any mental effort after a time
though 1t requires constant thought and
eternal vigilance at first. The first and
greatest impeachment to grace is indolencc
To Reduce the Girth of the Hips.
No figure can be 1.-THE and graceful If
there is an excess Of circumference below
the waist. This is a problem over which
many a woman with an otherwise shapely
figure has worried herself. Inordinately
large hips will spoil the effect of an 9TH
erwise good figure, 70 say nothing of dis
astroUs effects to smart gowns, for no
perfection Of cut will hide the presence
of Oypru1ICh flesh To reduce the girth of
the hips one exercise is suggested which
can be taken without any appliances. 1t *
to stand erect on a slight elevation from
the ground with the weight on one leg
Relax the other leg, and with the power
from the thigh first swing the relaxed leg
forward and backward; then swing it in
a circle around the strong leg. During
these swinging leg movements keep
steady poise; the body from the hips up
ward must be quite mOtionless. The quite
interesting statement is made that a Wom-
an has reduced the size of her hips no
less than four inches by this and similar
exercises. Another way may be men