The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-23

| poIHtS become or great Interest," One woman who does things in yer.
 clever way has taken a small bedroom
 upon the third story of her house an(
 cleared it of every vestige of furniture
 Small hassocks stand in the four cor
 ners Upon the wall there hang a few
 implements of exercise. A broomstieF
 lies along a row of nails. Two light
 weight dumb-bells are on their shelves
 A couple of rings for swinging purposes
 and a very small pair of Indian clubs
 are there. From the middle of the cell
 ing hangs punching bag. With these
 things she daily exercises and 1t has
 come to be the practice of her neigh
 bors to drop in at 1 and enjoy With her
 the delights of the third-story gymna-
 sium.
 A bath is absolutely necessary after
 the exercise. while the rub down and the rest which fellow are the greatest
 beauty preservers in the world, As
 Madam Butterfly says: "I sleep little
 while and I be pretty again. So says
 the society woman, who finds that half
 an hours rest between warm blankets
 will do more to bring back the contour
 to her face and to banish wrinkles
 than all the powder and rouges in the 1 world
 Try the simple exercise of lying flat
 upon the back on the floor. Lie for
 three minutes. Get up walk around 1 the room and try it again, For very 1 fat woman this in itself constitutes a
 form of exercise; and she will complain of being tired after she has picked her self up off the floor for the third time. lI.., -n Iyit
 corsets, though there is no actual ob-
 jection to a very short pair, or an old
 pair, loosened sc that the strings hang in loops at the back. The mere pres ence of the corsets gives many women confidence in their power of endurance, Without it the confidence forsakes them utterly.
 To complete the first exercise take the broomstick, or wand, in the hand and slip it under the feet, lifting them so that the knees nearly touch the chin. To the beginner this Weel be so ditti- cult that the services of third person may be required to handle the wand and to place it in the fingers of the one who is undergoing the treatment. But it will be found an amusing exercise and not a little fun goes with it. In the matter of reducing the hips 1t is su- preme, for, in the course of few days, | a difference will be noticed not only in | the lowering of the hips but In the ! suppleness of the body and the waist.
 The matter of bust development is one ! that interests every woman In the | perfectly normal figure the bust should | be just as prominent as the abdomen, | but not more so. To ascertain if she is developed let a woman stand in front of a long glass, Let her rest upon the balls of her feet and lift the body upright, but not forward Hold the chin up. A plumb line, now let fall from the top of the bust, should just graze the abdomen.
 But how few women are so propor- toned. The bust is in nine cases out )f ten, yes, in ninety mine out of hun dred, far less developed than the abdo- men, and the bulky, unganly figure is the result
 To develop the bust 1t is absolutely to exercise. Not alone will fitting the arms do. but there must be whole figurement movement The , prominence of the bust depends upon , he carriage largely, and no woman can { 'arry herself well unless she is agile I lnd supple The well formed bust de- I bends upon the method of breathing, { nd so it all goes back to the exercise.
 For a quick buoyance of figure, for f eep breathing, for correct carriage and or a corresponding increase of bust :, here is nothing excels the wand move T nent. This will so assist the figure that can be held erect like that of mili- ary cadet, and the bust thrown for r yard will appear to be well developed, T rhether 1t is or not T To get this figure, begin by lying flat ;, n the back, this time not upon the ~ GOT, but upon a hassock. Let it be tall < noush SO that the hands and feet will Y of touch the floor even when stretched at t full length. |; Take the wand in the two hands, II rasping 1t with the hands as far apart D E possible, and throw yourself across IL ,e stool Gradually straIghten out un- It YOU lie at full length, with the arms re rasnine the wand and the feet lifted J' 'om the floor. This will bring out the s' ust muscles and bring development DO Iickly.
 There are bust developers in the way ls massage, but thlS system ol eAetClSF -
 to be recommended from the first, W nd then to be supplemented by mas W lge. w The third exercise is for strengthen u 2 the back This is the most import eS 1t. for without a good back, it is i'm SC ,ssible to acquire grace or even to pi ,rsist in daily calisthencs Id The corsets of to-day almost cry out si r shapely back. Much less stiflly- WI med than formerly, they throw Wo- an upon her own natural, physical and demand that she be rong as well as shapely-and she can Fl ,t be one without the other-and that tn e have supple back. oh beautiful back is defined as one Ul at moves as one walks, that appears tn 1t stiff as though made of plaster, but tn owing the lines of grace. tit To get such back let the patient lie st 1on her face and bend her knees so Al at her feet are bent backward and ne ,ward. Now, let her take her wand ffc her hand and press it downward in of oh a manner as to hook it over her ct. She will find the position slightly raining, but it will help her greatly, Id she can try it for a minute each cst, y, counting sixty quickly, until she is 'ong in the muscles of her back. r After the exercise a warm bath is