The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-09-06
HOW TO BE PRETTY
THOUGH WORKING HARD

marian Martinez in Chicago Tribune)
have received so many letters from
young women who are so situated that
they must be at work during the day
that 1 feel as though it were time to
devote special talk to them.
Not only are my correspondents
numbered among the younger class OF
workers, but it is from older women
as well that numerous letters have
come.
They want to know how to keep UP
their general health though at work
daily, and they wish, above all things
to learn how to keep pretty and free
from wrinkles though occupied at work
which is more or less nerve racking.
/ have always been of the opinion
that the woman who goes out to work
daily is not so tired at night as the
woman who stays at home and works.
The stenographer has her noon hour
and her mornings and evenings, so
with the bookkeeper and the girl who
Is in the trades. The dressmaker, mil
liner, manicure and professional
woman all have hours of work and
hours of play.
The school teacher has, perhaps, the
hardest work of all, for during the
hours of duty there is a great nervous
strain combined with physical effort.
The school teacher must use all her
senses at once and keep her body and
brain moving. If she stands at the
blackboard she must use her arms,
keep her head turning, her ears must
be acute, her eye looking in front Of
her and behind her at the same time,
and her mouth must be busy talking.
There is nothing more trying than this.
KEEPING YOUNG AND PRETTY.
The woman who stays at home has
one advantage. If she is ill she can
humor herself. If tired she can adj
Just matters to suit her muscles; if she
wants to work she can do so or she
ran rest. Should the light in the room
not suit her she can darken it or
brighten it, she can open and close
the windows, and she can sit in rock
ing chair.
So, after all, perhaps the balance is
against the woman who works, for
duty with her is stern and she knows
that she must do her work steadily or
drop it.
Now the question of how to keep
young and pretty, healthy and 1.-THE, is
one that interests her, for she feels
that not only her comfort depends
upon this, but her success as well. The
woman who is slender, active, comfort
ably healthy and good looking has
much better chance than the woman
who is fat and heavy, sickly and dys-
peptic, with a poor complexion.
The woman who is employed most
eXerts her minds and her judgment in
order to keep herself as she should be.
She must let the brains that are MAX
ing a living for her be of assistance
to her in the beauty quest.
If she is obliged to sit at a type
writing machine all day she will find
herself exhausted at night, with a pain
in her side from too much exercise.
Her legs viii feel cramped, though her
arms will be tired. Walking is not the
right exercise, nor is sitting of any
avail.
A private gymnasium in New York
City which is patronized by profess
sional women who are earning good
salaries, makes it a rule that all shall
begin the nights practice with Indian
club work, but it is surely the strang-
est exercise with the clubs you ever
saw. Instead of swinging the clubs the
pupils use them in other ways. The
first exercise calls for a resting Of the
weight upon the clubs. These are
placed upon the ground and the pupil
leans upon them, bearing the full
weight.
INDIAN CLUBS FOR TIRED
WOMEN.
Next the pupil throws aside one of
the clubs and rests upon a single club
with one arm, while the other arm is
thrown into the air and the foot and
leg are thrust out. This is restful for
the back and gives one a pleasant,
clear, light feeling, as though one had
begun to breathe again.
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a desk all day and who is tired with
STOPPING and writing, the swinging of
the clubs is more beneficial. The clubs |
are not, however, swung violently. |
They are lifted into the air and tapped |
together over the head, then lowered |
and tapped again. They are held out |
at arms length, and the simplest of all |
movements are described with them.
Now, in Indian club swinging there |
is a science. The learning of the |
movement is a task fraught with diff |
ficulty, and those who attempt it will |
tell you that fencing is mere play COM |
pared to the learning of the art of In |
dian club swinging. Do not, therefore, |
in your quest for beauty and strength, /
go into the intricate and trying task of |
the true club swinger, but be contented |
with using your clubs as gymnasium |
weapons.
The lungs and chest grow narrow in
the case Of the woman bookkeeper or
the woman accountant or writer of any
kind, and even though the bust may
become fat from going so long without
sufficient exercise, at the same time
the lungs are contracted and often
painful
Let the woman employed over her
books get into a gymnasium suit at
night, and let her exercise for fifteen
with the windows open, be it
winter or summer. Throw back the
shoulders, swell out the chest, lift the
arms, and breathe full, deep breaths.
Professional women are rarely of
good figure. They are too full in the
abdomen and this is caused by their
sitting proclivities. They are pudgy
in the hips, and the belt line is too high
in front
For this the evening exercise will be
a sovereign remedy. Begin by putting
on the suit and skipping around the
room. Do not stop to rest until you
have been around the room three or
four times, and then, when out of
breath, pick UP the clubs and begin to
lift and lower them in an amateurish
attempt at swinging them.
The girl who is busy all day in a
close atmosphere must do something
in the evening to counterfeit the effects
Of the day, or she will grow old and
before her time
She must take beauty bath in cold
cream every night.
She must sleep in a well ventilated
room with the fresh air entering in a
way that does not strike the bed
She must either walk every night >pr
sit by the open window.
She should enjoy some distraction in
The way Of the theatre or pleasant, di-
verting society.
Her food should be just to her taste.