Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-11

on hands and feet and when you are down
on the floor at your work of scrubbing just
take turn in this way 1t may be very
funny to the onlooker, but never mind him.
Shut him out and go on with your system
of training down.
The hips must be given all the motion
possible if you are endeavoring to reduce
them, so while you are on hands and knees
roll with every step you take. By this I
mean that you are to make your progress
across the floor while down in this position.
When you are through with one part of the
floor and ready to start in upon another,
do not permit yourself to rise and walk
upright to the other side of the room. Go
on your hands and knees or hands and feet.
pick up some article that has dropped to
the floor, do not bend with groan and rise
with pant like a wheezy and; rheumatic
old lady. You can easily make yourself
wheezy and full of aches and pains if you
determine to. Perhaps you suffer from the
annoyance of coming up with & flushed face
If you stoop to pick, up anything from the
floor. This can be obviated if you will in
hale deeply while bending and let out
the breath slowly. and easily upon rising.
Do Not Grunt.
Do this whether any one is looking or not,
and the habit will be yduts.s IT there is an
impulse to give LITTLE. Npnt upon bending.
check 1t at once stoep as easily as If your
body was supple from top to toe. and 1T will
become So If you find that your joints are
growing rusty in, this respect, drop some
thing for the sake of picking It up and re-
peat the dropping and picking ten times,
not permitting yourself to be GREATNESS
while doing so. KS ~
1t is a pity that more of this STOPPING
cannot come into housework, for taken in
good-siZed doses, it is a wonderful means
Of preserving youth. Ifsyou have tend
ency to be stiff about the knees. rub them
every night with either alcohol or spirits of
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If your houSework involves much going
up and down OF stairs, beware. Stairs have
seriously injured many woman. Learn
to walk on them properly and you need not
suffer- Hold your body erect; spring easily
at each step. If you are obliged to carry
heavy loads, lift them high instead of let
ting them drag your body down.
Generally Dangerous.
Lifting and carrying Is one of the most
dangerous kinds of work. Unless you are
unusually strong you must not carry heavy
buckets of water, baskets of potatoes and
the like. Tedious as the process may be,
you must force yourself to divide the load
and make several trips for IT.. This takes
more time, but what you save of exhaustion
Is always extra time stored away. You can
make yourself One-Sided by carrying heavy
weights always with one hand. Take pains
to change hands frequently with what you
do carry and to make the burden light. A
lew extra steps are less harmful than the
drag of a great weight.
If our American women would learn to
poise bundles on their heads as do the peas
ants of Europe, we should have an erect
race. The head must be carried high to
keep the bundle steady; the spine must be
straight, the chest forced out and the
shoulders back. European peasants have
been so overworked that their figures have
been ruined in spite of this good exercise,
but the value of it remains for all that
Useful Suggestions.
Rose water and benzoin is excellent for
TAM but it may not agree with ALL Try
this instead: One pint rose water, l ounce
lemon juice {strained). " ounce pulverized
borax. Use before washing, after exposure.
If the skin is rough still, rub in little
cold cream every night. Lotion for the
hands: Melt ounces pure strained honey,
add ounces almond meal and knead to-
gether with " ounce beaten egg yolk; add
ounces sweet almond oil and work all to-
gether into a paste. Apply at night and
wear large gloves over It.
To increase your weight exercise a good
deal, but not rapidly; sleep as much as pos
sible and eat fatten1ng foods-sweets,
starchy foods, fat meats, olive oil, butter,
If you wish to treat your warts yourself.
buy a little sperrnaceti and spread upon the
skin surrounding the wart; then apply
pencil Of lunar caustics TO the spot. You
must repeat several times But there is
always the possibility Of a scar from this
or any similar treatment, especially If the
caustic touches the skin near the wart.
Electric treatment by specialist Is better.
Reduce the size Of hips and abdomen by
mat work bending exercises and bicycle
riding. Gentle exercise aiong any of these
lines will not suffice. Work hard.
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