The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-10-19
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WONlHNS PINK AND WHITE CHEEKS
Her Clear, Fresh Complexion Is Due to Cold
Baths, Regular Diet, and Plenty of Exercise

The English girl takes her bath I'm
cold water. The American girl, on the
other hand. takes her bath in very hot
water, quite as hot as can be borne. and
she. remains in # until she is thorough
Iy heated through. often II is a long
process. and the bath leaves her very
tired.
The matter OF the cold plunge daily is
subject to much debate. But II the
woman who wants 10 experiment viii
draw the water over night and let it
/, stand until morning she viii find .hac
il is much more agreeable. 1t viii he
just about the tight warmth-nameIy,
the climate OF the room. This viii not
shock the system.
The English girl declares that her
wonderful skin is due TO the vigorous
rubbing after the bath. a rubbing so Sc
we're that it acts almost as a massage,
and she viii tell you how she has been
cured of rheumatism and many a minor
III IN that manner. She viii describe
the roughness of the towels and will
tell YOU that the American woman
makes her skin soft aud her body teu-
der by taking hot baths
Eats Proper Food.
Yet, while the English girl tells enc
that her beauty is due TO her cold va
/ ter bathing and her exercise, she will
add that II IS also due 70 the fact that
she eats the right kind of food. The
English miss eats bread and butter. the
latter of the best kind and the former
made in a thoroughly hygiene manner.
She has meat only once day and her
/ breakfast IS mostly porridge OF some
kind, homiuy oatmeal, mush, or some
sort OF breakfast food. She does not
taste the great variety OF food set be-
fore children Of this country. Even the
groWn-ups do not each much more eX-
cept on state occasions.
Diet has a great deal to do with com
pleEiou. But In order 20 eat plain.
hearty food one must be strong and
well. Invalids, cranks, and dyspeptics
are hard TO please. The healthy women
eat anything that is palataDle and
washes IL down with a relish
/ To become strong In stomach one must
I have. exercise, and here is where the
English girl CZcels.
IN New York city there is a big
I handsome gymnasium outside of when
I Is the sign, Society Women Taught Dy
the Home Method
Home Calisthenics.
The home method, when one comes to
/ look into IT, embraces a list OF calls
/ thenic exercises which can be taken at
/ home without trouble. Here are some
/ Of the possibilities
/ No implements are required.
one can daily exercise without punch
t ing Bag foils, dumbbeus. or horizontal
1 bars.
! No previous training is needed. The
novice can go through IL ali as well as
/ the one who has studied a year.
/ One can take easy lessons or difficult
I ones III the heart is weak take the
I former
/ Don't tax the muscles before coming.
/ Arrive IN "a rested state.
! Don't think that one can get on in
fifteen minutes. One viii have 10 stay
Z a fun hour one ought 10 stay two.
The special province OF this gymua-
sium is 10 stimulate a taste for exercise.
so that the pupil, on going away, VIII
want TO keep up her daily stunt. And
so a great permanent benefit VIII be
/ hers. lin other words, she gets so fond
of doing these exercises every day that
+ she cannot stop. She viii keep right
on
An English instructor in physical cul-
tuTe called her class together and babe