Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-07
The QUEST or BEAUTY
Tennis Racket Can Be Made
a Beautifer.
LITHENEsS AND GRACE
PRETTY ARMS, A TRIM WAIST
AND FINE SHOULDERS.
All Possibilities of a Striking Figure
Are Easy to Sc
cure.
ITHENESS AND GRACE

When tennis racket can be had for 81
or 81, as You like, and a ball for as little as
quarter. why should any woman weep
because of her figure?
If her chest is fiat, her hips SMALL her
arms thin and her shoulders narrow. it
lies within the power of that ball and
racket to round out her form into full, firm
curves.
II the arms are f1abby, the waist ove--
generous, the whole figure soft and stout
and shapeless, the ball and racket can
bring 1t within the bounds of a normal
outline.
There is no game open to all reasonably
strong women (for basket ball and the like
1 consider fit for only the exceptionally
athletic) which brings into play as many
muscles of the body as our good old stand
by game, lawn tennis
Now tennis court is not at the dis
posal OF every one of you. But court
laid out according to regulations, meas
ured to an exact TSx2T feet and parted
down the middle by a three-foot net, is
not essential to one who wants merely
the physical benefit of tennis. If you mean
to play for cup,s that's another matter.
The only way to play tournament tennis
is to play 1T by tournament rules. But a
girl 1 know gave herself as pretty a pair
of arms as one might wish to See-arms
that made possible her first short sleeves
by batting tennis ball against an old
barn for two hours ofseyery day.
Solid Comfort in 1t.
81 hadn't any court, and none of my
friends had one, and everybody I knew
was too lazy to come and practice with me,
so 1 had to invite the old barn to play,
she says. After all, the barn is never
tired or busy, and it never disputes point
with me. so it may be the best opponent l
could have chosen OF course, don't have
any of the advantages of returning clever
shots, but 1 get lot of running in trying
to keep up with the barns returns, and L
throw much force into my own shots as
If 1 were after an International champion
ship. IN 81
The strength and beauty that this girl
gained hear withess to what determination
can accomplish. However, it is much bet
opponent than against stolid wall. Alert
ness is developed in This way, to say moth
ing of more powerful muscles.
tennis expert says that the use of the
adds "One of the reasons why golf is such
bad practice for lawn tennis lies in the fact
that che approach shot in that game re-
Quires the use of force from the elbow,
which is. of course. stiffened at the same
time; whereas. irr lawn tennis, the work
should be done By@thef shoulder and the ell
bow should be kept loose.
All the lines from SHOULDER TO racket con-
stitute lever. fine 'fuicr,m of which is at
the racket and the power at the shoulder.
A good player Uses the two parts of his
arm, that is, the uppe, arm and forearm
as if they werse corfnectiffg rods. loosely
Joined together 81 the elbow, for transmit
ting the force aprafed Sc the shoulder to the
Fundamental Laws.
This fundamental lamsof the game means
as mucn to the beauty seeker as to the cup
challenger. Playing with your elbow no
doubt benefits the arm In measure; but
playing with the shoulder means that both
parts of the arm, the shoulder the neck
the chest, the entire trunk, come In for
their share of the gain
Two famous players, Deherty and Smith.
are noted for the length of time that they
can keep up the game; this is attributed to
the fact that they put into their stroke the
momentum of the whole body The shout
DER stroke aecompishes this The man who
plays from his elbow uses but the half of
one arm, and this member soon gives out
Meanwhile the rest of the body is getting
no physical culture. The whole BODY used
in harmony will last longer and gain more.
IL you are taking up tennis for the sake
OF beauty, L advise. you to play singles
without keeping score This binders the
progress of the exercise, and sometimes
not in your own case, to be sure-giyes rise
to differences OF opinion that are not beau
Trying. Play with as many clever and pro-
ltSSiUIIdl STROKES as you can master. hilt
never mind who beats.
Ii you are not used to violent exercise,
begin by playing only twenty minutes each
day and rest at the end of every five min
utes. Iennls is strenuous, and only Wig
orous, out-of-doors woman should under
take playing it for long stretch at first.
Increase the doses as you find yourself
able.
When It is Harmful
Renounce the game entirely if you are
inclined TO pain in the small of the back.
AS l warned you before reaching high
above the head may do serious damage to
woman who suffers in this way, and ten
mis- calls for much overhead work
Weak lungs may be wonderfully
Strengthened by the deep breathing which
the game enforces. Weak heart action
cannot stand such a violent strain. Merry
BUSINESS. indigestion, nervous and bilious
headaches. insomnia, may all be benefited
by the stimulation of the exercise and
fresh air.
One racket is practically as good as an
other when you are playing for mere ex-
ercise, SO long you get one that is light
CROUCH. Don't attempt to handle your
brothers, which probably weighs at least
fourteen ounces. Twelve and half or
thirteen ounces are quite enough for you
to manage.
If you have no court, choose as level a
piece of ground as you can find II 1t is
not seventy-eight feet long never mind
Inc nearer IL comes 10 TINS measure the
sitter a game you will be induced to put
up; but you can do much for your figure
in smaller space. Draw a &C I'd across
to separate your field from your oppo-
nents. then go TO work to keep the bali in
play as long as possible, without any
thought of courts or faults or games.
Make a point of picking up balls with the
racket as a real tennis player always does.
The bending at the waist which this in
wolves is something that you can't afford
to miss. ~
As to Corsets.
Play without q corset If your corset
waist is so loose that you feel it no restric-
ton whatever. you need not remove it, but
1t is impossible to have too much freedom
of Dress Choose a tennis shoe that fits
you properly-a shoe may be too loose for
the good of the foot as well as too tight.
There is no necessity of spreading the foot
out of shape Since the classical days of
Greece and Rome sandals have been pass
ing out of fashion.
Cultivate a forceful serve. Assign this
particuiar play to the culture of your right
arm Learn to smash heavily with an arm
that drives this bail like cannon After
the ball Is once In play YOU can resort to
the little lodges that quicken the eye and