The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02

Some travellers and students have said so."
 T don't agree with them" Mir. Blashfield was prompt and decided. '"rhe fault is by no means common. Among the women whose figures are at fault in this respect are to be found as many Europeans as Americans"
 And the other common faultT
 Short flower limbs. They are sup posed to equal the rest of the body in length. and they seldom do so. The fault is so common that the eye Is used to 1t and does not realizsi it as a fault. A student once attempted to criticise a statue of Venus, saying, What long legs she has The fact is that most women, the women he was accustomed to seeing, have short ones"
 This latter fault Is less easily reme- died than the lack in arms, and yet 1t Is not beyond our power to do some thing about the matter Study your selves, and see how nearly you con form to classical standards. Take your tape measure or foot rule and find out whether your legs measure less than the rest of your length. Look at pic- lures of Grecian statues and compare your own arms with theirs; are they as round and as powerful as the ideal ones7
 In perfecting your arms there are two points to be considered. Mir Blash field has warned you. First. they must be strengthened as to muscle; second, they must be rounded as to flesh. Ex- ercise will attend to the former; mas sage to the latter.
 The exercises taught for developing the arms are infinite In number. They are performed with and without ap- rd ha fa ( t,o same. whichever one of many excellent methods you choose. DumbbeIIs, In dian clubs, pulley weights, wands, games like bowling and tcnnis. house. work. movements without apparatus any of these things may give you the large and vigorous arm that the artist demands. A woman who had the most beautiful right arm ever saw told me that she had built it up from a lean one by persistent egg-beating with the old-fashioned kind of beater. T did not set out to beautify my arm" she explained. T was merely making cakes to support my family by their sale; but the arm was reaping the bene- it all the time. My left arm Is as small and feeble as other peoples" Exercises which call for tension are the most rapid means of enlarging a slender arm. Go through motions in which you imagine that you are rais- ing heavy weight in each hand Clasp an imaginary iron dumb-bell in each hand while the arms hang at the sides raise the bells slowly to the shoulders, then lower slowly and repeat several times. Next. let the arms fall in front | and raise the bells to the chest Raise hands to cut as shown in tha picture, edges of palms forward, thumbs l against shoulders. Extend forward. return, continue in quick repetition. Keep the hands rigidly i'd cutting posi- 1 tion all the time. This will enable you to keep the whole arm tense, and more force will be put into the movement. Hands to strike" calls for the fists instead of the cutting hands. The mo- | tion Is the same.
 Drop arms at the sides, fingers out stretched. Raise arms to a level with the shoulders. laterally extended. Drop. Raise. Continue in rapid counts Place your hands on the castings of an open door, standing a step behind the sill. Keep your feet in position. lean forward until your arms support you from falling. If you will let one arm do the supporting for a moment you can feel its biceps with the other hand, hard an6 tense.
 Hanging in rings or from a bar ,s a good arm developer.
 As to massage of the arms. All