The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16
| TAKE GOOD CARBOHYDRATES
norm THE THIN AND TIE FAT
MAY DE MADE BEAUTIFUL.
Exercise 10 Reduce Their Proportions
-Fattening Foods for the Arm-Let
the Golf Girl Observation-Disclosures for
Various Defects-Beauty Of Fine Arms.

In the light Of present day developments
the woman who does not study her arms
| to increase their beauty IL less attractive
| than her sisters and makes a poorer APP
pearance day and night
For IL Is not alone when wearing a low
necked gown that the woman with good
| arms looks well There is something about
good arms that shows through the dress
and you can tell the minute you see a woman
| whether she can wear decollete frocks to
good advantage or not.
And this Is not surprising. The arms
are very prominent. If one may so char
| acterize them. They are used in talking.
in walking. in motions necessary and UNI
necessary. and unless they are well de-
veloped they will not appear we'll.
A big fat arm is not the thing. speaking
from the standpoint Of beauty. A stout
arm is very awkward. In tight sleeve it
suggests a sausage link; in baggy sleeve
1t is too big to be prettv.for its proportions
are apt to be those Of pillow Gaze. In a
shoulder strap it is even worse.
Rosa Bonheur once said that she
would not again attempt to paint the female
figure because Of her despair over the diff
Guilty of getting the arms to look natural
And perhaps that is why the Venus de Milo
is such success. She has no arms. Who
knows but that this beautiful Venus. in
comparably lovely. never had arms, but
was left in this unfinished state by an artist
who left her half done. because he could
not make the arms 10 suit him.
The length Of the arms. with human
being. is. in a measure. arbitrary. You
cannot make your arms longer or shorter.
but you can control them in OF her ways
You can fatten them or make them leaner,
and you can train them into graccfulness.
To be pretty they should be covered with
firm, white flesh. They should be smooth,
and their exterior should not be fuzzy or
notified.
They should be strong. and their grace
should suggest hidden power. They
should not look soft and fabby.
The arms Of the golf girl are apt to be
unsightly. all lumpy like the calves Of a
bicycle rider One famous woman golf
player in particular has graceful arms,
not too highly developed in any one place
But she rarely plays golf
For weeks she does not touch a club,
and / is only when getting ready for the
games that she appears on the links II is
the constant pounding Of the balls, the in
Cessant using OF certain muscles. which
causes them to grow big and hard and out
of proportion to the rest Of the body.
or course. the golf girl need not have
such arms, necessarily She can temper
her exercise and develop the rest of her
body along with her arms 1t il only the
one who has gone TO golf excess whose
arms are lunpv.
The girl whose arms are too stout. and
there are many in this predicament, must
train of the flesh. She must use them
vigorously and must e. through arm exer-
cises hat take of the flesh.
If the right exercises are employed the
arms will suddenly grow small, apparently
shrinking day by day But a. they lessen
in size their strength increases and they
become prettier for their lack of flesh.
The girl whose arms are too thin must
work in contrary direction Women
who typewrite necessarily and OF herwise
must Use their arms, are often troubled
with bony arms: and ii is for them that n
sermon on arm development must be
preached.
The arms must he rubbed nightly with
hot oil of a kind that will sink into he flesh.
The best oil for this purpose is melted cold
cream This can he massa ged into the skin
in such a way that it will reach the tissues
and I've absorbed by them, thus Pumping
out the arms
Olives will fatten out the arms, il l. said,
because they are half oil. So also will