Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-03
SHOULDER ana NECK EXERCISES FOR WO M E N

"sESHERE go an old woman and a
 young woman-those two walk
 "A ing ahead of us," said the physi- culturist to her pupil. "She on the left is the young one; the one on the right is fifty-five if she's day.
 'I'd like to know how you can tell that" said the pupil. Both are rather slender, both have blond hair, and as they turn the side of the face their conplexions are about the same, pink and white; both artificial, I guess. Now, how do you know the one on the right is fifty-five?"
 By her shoulders and the back of her neck. Don't you see this part of her body has lost it's hmberness, that it. is immovable as dressmakers wood- en dummy? l6ow look at the younger woman. You see, she can turn her head this way and that and move her shoulders. When the old woman walks quickly, you observe her head has a lottery, wabbly motion, as though she had a faint stroke of paralysis. If could place my fingers upon her ver- tebrse just at the back of the neck and little beloM.r I would find them swathed in a mass of fat that renders them immobile as the shoulders of an OK. No matter how a woman improves
 
 and assumes a sprightly manner, those stiff shoulders and neck at the back are a dead give away"
 What a pityi" exclaimed the pupil.
 Yes, 1t would be a pity if it were necessary. It is not. A woman of sev- enty may be as 1.-the as a girl if she uses the means to keep her so. It is laziness and indifference that cause old women to have ungraceful bodies. Sometimes. too, fat young woman has these stfffened shoulders"
 But how can a woman prevent 1t? I'd like to tell mamma if there's any remedy, and, heavens, I'd rather be dead than to have my body become like that, even though I live to be a hun dred What ought mamma to do to re- move the disfiguring stiffness?" C
 It is matter of patience, industry and grit. Twice day for five minutes the woman with the telltale, shoulders should practice this exercise: Let her stand erect and hold her chest up She should have mirror before her to look into. There is no vanity in looking into a mirror in order to correct deformity. Then, always holding herself perfectly erect. let her move her head and neck back and forward, back and forward, especially back, energetically for five minutes, showing it back forcefully against the lump of fat. The object is to work off the lump of fat she has al- lowed to accumulate upon the, @verte- brae at the back of the neck. The mo- tion give is bound to do this in time. and every practice aids little. s
 At the same time it loosens and stretches the neck and shoulder mus cles she has allowed to grow stiff with her evil negligence. If she perseveres, 1,yy I,xy e,L,c !. I>lA +<, I,~ T. head perfectly erect and her spine straight always at the back of the neck. for there will be no lump of fat to pitch her forward. Will and memory must assist to hold the head level. poised splendidly upon the spine. After finish ing this exercise let the middle aged woman who wishes to regain the supple shoulders of her youth turn her head from side to side as rapidly and as far as she can turn it a dozen or more. times. That limbers the neckmuscles.
 There is one more-for the shoulders, Let the arms hang loose and limp at the sides. Then whirl the shoulders around and around in a circle. first with for- ward motion, then with a backward one. This releases the great muscles around the shoulder blades, which with the average woman are stiff as boards. Of course the exercises must be taken with the body perfectly free and uncor- geted. tsaa
 These simple exercises. persisted fin six months to year, will give your mother or anybody's mother the supple neck and shoulders of girl of sixteen even after incipient rheumatism has begun it's work. Looking into the mir-. TOT while exercising enables one to know when the movements are correct. Resides fixes the mind on the task and concentration of mind is more than half the battle. 389{ 4isAt2
 MARY COULD LYTLH.