The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-01-21
CURE OF THE DOUBLE CHIN.

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CURE OF THE DOUBLE CHIN.
The First Step Is to Loosen Ones
Neck Bands.
The first signs of a double chin may
/ be noted in the looking glass. Look
at yourself in profile, hold your head
/ naturally, and count your chins. If you
! nave more than one yuI; are in danger
Of developing deformity. If you have
two full chins, with signs of a third,
/ you have reached the danger mark
where beauty ends and ugliness begins.
Women who are subject to headaches
usually have the very double chin. The
aching head must be held in one posi-
ton and there is no such thing ais eX-
ercising the muscles. Therefore the
superfluous flesh accumulates.
The woman with a double chin who
wishes to regain the lines of beauty has
a hard task before her, but she can
work out her own salvation. She must
begin by loosening her neckbands and
work with her throat exposed.
Her first task is that of massage. She
must massage with the reduction move
ment. The strokes of her hand must
be vigorous and downward. They must
be heavy and quick.
The reduction massage is carried on
with the palm of the hand, which is
| barely moistened with borated cold
cream. This has a dying property.
To make it, take an ounce of cold
cream and work into a teasDoonful Of
bOraX powder. Let it harden and use
it for the massage, but do not use very
much Place just enough in the palm
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fatten the neck
Now try this massage movement
Strike the double chin with the palm of
the hand, giving swift, hard strokes
downward. If you find you cannot do il
yourself get some one to do il for you.
Strike hard and do be afraid of hurting
the flesh.
The second movement is with the
left hand. Massage vigorously from left
( to right, giving the chin dozen hard
blows where it is latest. Now repeat
this with the right hand, striking from
right to left. You will find that you
have made the flesh redder and softer
than it was.
1t is now time to rest. Take the
neck movements.
These are four in number and you
must take them with vigor as we'll as
with discretion. They consist in bend
ing the head away back: in throwing it
forward in bending it to the right I'M
til il almost touches the shoulder. and
in bending it to the left until your ear
almost touches your left shoulder.
Then come the twisting motions. The
head is twisted TO the right and then
to the left. Twist as far as you can,
hut do not strain your neck.
When you were a child you constantly
turned you head this way and that way.
And, until you were Is you wore long
dresses and came out in society, you
had full use of the neck and throat
muscles. But then came the high stock,
the stiff linen collar and the metallic
bands. and you lost the freedom of your
neck and throat.
Your little girl, if You will observe
her, never accumulates a double chin.
No matter how stout she may be, her
chin is single and we'll rounded. And
the reason for this is not very far to
discover.
Watch her a few minutes and you will
see. Notice how freely she turns her
head See how continually she moves
her chin this way and that way. She
looks behind without turning her Shout
ders, bat simply by q motion of the
head. She keeps all day wonderful
neck practice.
Now. you. on the other hand, seldom
turn your head If you want to look
behind you it is necessary for you to
turn your shoulders.
If you wish to pick upan article, to
search for anything, you do it not by
motions of the head, but by movements
of the back and shoulders. You keep
your neck rigid.
Il could. not move my head if / want
ed to do So protested woman with
double chin. MY collar is too high.
1t catches me back of the ears
Another woman said: 1T is a tor
ture for me to turn my head. My neck
is stiff / have not for years twisted
my head about The muscles are soft
and l have contracted the habit of
carrying the head stiffly. l don't be-
lieve l could turn my head if / wanted
to"
After years of keeping the neck and
throat rigid, the double chin begins to
appear.
The natural neck should be long and
slender. 1t should be smallest around
the middle, or just where one buttons
ones collar, tapering slightly toward
the head and toward the shoulders. The
chin should be round and firm, and
it should not be crooked and promin-
ent, and it should certainly not be
fat.
The crooked chin is another story. 1t
comes from missing teeth, which in
time will cause the mouth to draw to
one side. The chin grows crooked until
the face is three cornered instead Of
oval.
Women who wear low necked gowns
usually have perfect Threats. The rea-
son is plain. They spend the greater
mart of the time with the throat exposed
and il has chance to be exercised and
to keep it's shape.
In the morning such woman wears
a negIigee that is neckless. In the af-
ternoon she puts on a reckless dinner
gown. and if she goes to ball or opera
she dresses in a low necked gown. Her
throat is exposed almost ali the time.
ONLY for a few hours i'm the middle of
the day does she wear the tailor made
gown with its high neck or the choking
reception dress.
There is a loud protest against these
choking gowns for the time of day, and
not a few women are wearing the
Dutch neck, which is finished without
the very high stock and which permits
of the loose flying boa, or the little silk
ruffle. or something trivial i'm the way
of neckwear or the lace fichu. There
are ways of letting your throat breathe
without being unconventional in dress,
and women are studying them out.
The woman who feels a double chin
coming must learn 10 carry her head
up. This is difficult. She must lift her
chin and keep ii lifted.
Al first her mack will ache, and she
will feel as though she were going
through the world star gazing. She will
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