The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21
Delsarte for st. Paul Girls

Beauty can be bought and is sold
here in st. Paul every day. Real
beauty too, not the kind to be obtained
from the chemist in bottles and boxes
but real genuine compilations, round
necks. and graceful figures but it must
be paid for, and that not only with dol
lars but with hard work and what
is often more troublesome to give,
regularity of effort.
The woman who wants bright eyes,
a healthy color, and a slender we'll
poised body may have it at these
prices, at least so the physical Gull
turists assert.
While the Delsarte system teaches
the art Of appropriate gesture, an art
often sadly lacking in the society wo-
man as we'll as her less fashionable
sister, physical culture, so it's advo-
Gates declare, will give its faithful
disciple we'll developed, rounded arms,
a full round neck, and teach the real
art of walking gracefully, a much
rarer accomplishment than most peo-
pie suppose, for if you think Of all
your acquaintance how few walk
really gracefully and we'll.
There are several physical culture
classes for women in st. Paul and
they are increasing in popularity ev-~
cry season, so the instructors say.
AT the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION Prof. Carl Rothfus has had
a class for several seasons. Last year
this class numbered some forty mem
bers and this year, although it will
not begin until October, over fifty
new members are enrolled and the
fencing class is growing in popularity
also and promises to be much larger
this year than last.
Last year Miss Middleton had a
class on the Hill that was well at
tended, and two young women from
Minneapolis also had physical culture
classes in Ramaley's hall last winter.
AT Visitation Convent there is ply
steal culture class conducted by Miss
Grace Whittredge and it is probable
that there are a few others, but these
are the principal and best known ones.
Work Is Curative.
In all these classes exercises are
given for developing various muscles
of the body, and several instructors
make specialities of incipient deformi-
ties such as curvature Of the spine,
injured ankles, or sometimes a thin
scraggy neck is corrected, or thin
sharp elbows are rounded and filled
out until they are pretty and attrac-
tive.
The stout woman joins a physical
culture class in order to rid herself
of her too solid flesh that does not
adorn but encumbers her often slender
frame, while the thin undeveloped girl
becomes a member in expectation Of
gaining sufficient plumpness to make
her as pretty as youth should be.
Prof. Rothfus says that in his class
he had one well known st. Paul wo-
man who, when she began the exer-
cises, weighed two hundred pounds,
but who in three months reduced her
self to 1853 and that without any bad
effect upon her general system.
Under the hands of the physical
culturist the awkward, gawky girl be-
comes the graceful, supple woman, the
stout grow slender and svelte and the
thin, plump and rosy.
Rules for the Stout Woman.
Here are the rules laid down in
general way by one teacher, for the
stout woman who wishes to reduce
her too abundant adipose tissue. She
must have plenty of fresh air, daily
bath and then undertake and carry,
out faithfully certain exercises for
reducing too large abdomen, If nee
essary. To do this there are certain
exercises in which she lies at full
length and raises first one foot and
leg and then the other.
Given a good heart and healthy
lungs and there is pretty sound in
dividual, says Prof. Rothfus. The
vital organs should be developed and
these two possessions are better than
big punches of muscles. Only too
frequently the athlete, professional, or
amateur, Is over developed, that is his
muscles have been developed at the
expense Of his heart or his lung power
and then the general public wonders
when it hears Of his sudden collapse
or of his death.
The thin girl must take an opposite
course in order to put little more
flesh on her too evident bones. Plenty
of fresh air, of course, is always a
requisite to good health, but she must
battle only often enough for cleanliness,
and she must work at her exercises