Evening star., 1902-01-25

The Correct Position.
| No woman can be beautiful and interesting
unless she holds I'D her head.
| times This also makes the back of the
neck strong and shapely; it expands the
| chest by making it stand out fuller. To
make the chest large and full not only i'm
| proves the looks Of the person, but it may
| add years to life.
Lungs Need the Room.
| An addition of three inches to the cir
| conference of the chest Morgan tells us in
| University Oars, implies that the lungs, in
stead of containing go cubic inches of air.
| as they did before their functional activity
was exalted, are now capable of receiving
| 800 cubic inches of air within their cells.
| The value of this will be admitted. Sup
| pose one is attacked by Inflammation of the
| lungs; the possession of enough lung tissue
| to admit forty or fifty additional cubic
| inches Of air will suffice to turn the scale on
| the side of recovery. 1t may be the means
of recovery.
| Not only this, but with the head well held
| up and chest expanded, heart, stomach and
other vital organs have more ROOM SO that
| they can work more freely. 1t gives a feel
ing of strength and vigor which is exhila-
| rating.
Now look on the other picture; with the
| chin drawn downward, the chest becomes
| small and fiat, and the lungs and stomach
| are cramped until they become weak and
| untitled for the work they are expected to
| perform.
Some one has said that 1t is a pity we
| are not obliged to walk a mile daily, carry
! ing half dozen pounds or so of glass on a
tray on the head. and which must be paid
for II broken Heads would be carried
y6ry erpcflv I'm this and
become Juno-like.
QueenIy Model.
Queen Natalie, whom we have mentioned
before TO point a moral or adorn a tale, ac-
counted the most beautiful queen in Eu-
rope, is an enthusiast on the subject of the
old picturesque method of pitcher carrying.
She takes regular and frequent exercise
with a heavy pitcher on her head. Her
greatest beauty is her neck and her head,
which Is placed on her shoulders after the
manner of the Venus of Milo. 1t is COM
mon sight to see her majesty, accompanied
by dame d'honneur, at about O'Clock in
the morning, briskly walking, and easily
balancing shapely weight on her queenly
head. Not only do head and neck acquire
the correct poise by walking with some
thing on the head. but gait from the hips
is also acquired. The graceful Hfndoo girl
can bear pitcher on her head, unsup-
ported by the hand, simply because she
moves from the hip instead of from the
sity of pitcher carrying probably originally
included.
Handy Preparations.
The following is a good curling fluid for
the hair:
Powdered boraX. X...................1b ~ o.
I1oI "aler--.-..- .....-.-.--............1 L pint
Dissolve the berax and gum arabic in the
hot water. On retiring at night. wet the
hair with this liquid-which was bottled
after eooling-and put up in papers. The
hair will remain in curl several days. An
other curling fluid recipe calls for a weak
solution of isinglass. The isinglass is pur-
chased at druggists; it comes in sheets:
five or ten cents worth is enough to get at |
time. Pour enough hot water over to |
dissolve it, add a teasponful of alcohol or
spirits of wine to a half pint of the fluid; |
this keeps it from getting musty. Wetting |
the hair with this solution will curl it. Ice |
land moss, which is also bought at the |
druggists, is boiled in water. the proportion |
being one-half ounce moss to one quart |
water, strained, and used for a curling |
fluid Add spoonful of alcohol to keep it |
sweet
To relieve oily hair wash the hair once a
week in warm water, containing powdered
boraX, the proportion being. spoonful of |
borax to quart of water. Rinse in cold |
water. Use no soap on the hair. Massage |
the scalp every night with cold water;
twice a week massage 1t with alcohol
To prevent hair coming out use:
Glycerine. ...............-...-....1 OF. |
Qulnine. -...................20 70 grains |
Aicohoi. ;..........'.'.........2 o.
Tincture cantharides. es...................1 OF.
Bay rum to make one pint.
To make your waist longer-and with
your five feet seven inches, your waist
should not be short-try the following exer-
else, deyoting ten minutes, night and morn
ing, to them; wear loose garments while ex-
ercising and corsets: Stand with arms |
akimbo, or hands on the hips, with chin up |
and the feet about foot apart. Lean slow
ly over to the left, as far as you can go; |
rest there a moment; rise up till you are |
standing erect; then bend over to the right; |
thus sway over first to the left, then to the |
right, till you have devoted ten minutes to |
the work. 1t will not take many days to /
feel that this movement is stretching your |
sides and making them more shapely, as |
we'll as stronger. Always stand erecty and /
practice deep breathing often during the /
day.
To make curly locks straight, use vase
line: curly hair is usually dry hair. Rub |
well with vaseline every night, and give a |
thorough brushing-the traditional hun |
dred strokes every night.
The average weight, height and chest |
measurements for a young man, nineteen |
years Of age are:
Height, 5 feet. inches.
Weight, 135 pounds. |
Chest measurements. 81 inches
For rough skin on arms and limbs. after |
taking the warm bath. dash cold water |
over the body; rub dry with a crash towel. |
but do not rub too hard. Too much stress |
cannot be laid upon the thorough drying |
of the body after bathing, as neglect in this |
particular is often the cause of roughness. |
and spoils the fine texture of the epider- |
mis-. AT night after bathing. rub the limbs |
with an emoalient cream made by melting 1
together in q double boiler. two drachme /
each of spermaceti and white wax, adding /
four ounces of oil OF sweet almonds, six /
drachms Of rose water and three drachms
of Mecca balsam. Massage this well into /
the skin. which should afterwards be
rubbed over with soft. linen cloth.
For good and also harmless skin food /
something that win beautify the complex /
lon, the following may be used to ad-
vantage: To the yolk Of q perfectly fresh /
egg, well beaten, add one tablespoonful OF /
the oil Of sweet almond. one-half ounce OF
rose water and fifteen drops of tincture of |
benzoin. Rub this on the face with a linen
cloth every fourth night.