The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-12
THE GIRL YOU WOULD
LIKE TO BE.

While the summer was undoubtedly
intended for lolling, lounging and for
ldling, the strenuous American woman,
when she does not spend it in a light
ming trip around the world, INDUCES in
even more exciting physical culture ex-
ercises than she does in the cold win
ter days. If you have ever spent a
summer In Newport, you will have to
Streteh your imagination in order 70
give tllne 10 the society girl to rest. for
rest she simply never does She is on
the go from morning till night BY the
emu or the season she is usually a
champion tennis player, golf player,
swimmer or rover, and has succeeded
III decreasing her weight to a minimum
a good many of the women in New
port IN the pursuit of sylph-like fig
ureS undergo tOrtures which the early
Chrlsllan martyrs would have heSitated
TO contemplate. They certainly accom-
plish the results but. oh, at what a
price! In order that all too solid flesh
may melt the Newport matron will
sWathe herself in rubber bandages. CT
worse stlll,' rubber suits. On too Of
inns she Will wear her ordinary cloth
ing, ana VIII quicken her sweating
process by DOMINIC her golf sweater or
even her heavy leather automobile coat.
1t sounds warm, does it not? Bundled
up this way, the would-be sylph exer-
clses in the privacy of her garden and
the flesh, literally melts off her
Now, while this is undoubtedly the
quickest way of getting thin, if pursued
FOR any length of time it is too severe a
trial, for il is more like a perpetual
Turkish bath than anything else. OF
course. the subject is allowed to eat
anything she chooses, or to take as
many maps as she likes, and this is one
reason why this particular obesity cure
is popular among the self-indulgent
women of the smart set. On the beach,
IN the wee hours of the morning you
may occasionally see stout woman,
clad in her bathing suit, running,
bounding uD and down in the deep
sand. She must 90 this for an hour
before she takes her dip. The suit and
deep sand makes every step difficult
and heavy. An hours daily exercise
in this way is guaranteed to reduce al
most anybody. Now, these methods of
oxySeniting the blood and in that man
,rer reducing the weight are certainly
startling, and they are laudable in that
they demand so much heroic persever-
ance; but their traces are usually Wis
ible in the haggard and tired look of
the subject, and personally l think that
less strenuous methods are more to be
advised, particularly in the summer
time. The way the summer girl eXer-
cises, be she slight or stout, is enough
10 worry any one. She does not worry
about it until the autumn, and then she
finds that she has either over-devel-
Oped her muscles, made them stand out
like those of an athlete, or else that she
has attained the likeness and also the
thinness of the greyhound-a fine thing
in a hound, but not so in a woman. We
see a great many girls whose enthusi-
ism for athletics has led them to over
do. While there has probably been
nothing so fine for the physical condi-
ton of the woman OF this country as
the fad for sports. vet even in this
realm common sense should step in and
warn the enthusiast that she is sacri-
ficing beauty to strength. Extreme
strength is the attribute of the male:
when it is seen in a woman it takes
away from her beauty and from her
chief charm-grace. The woman who
punches the bag (and this is one of the
best exercising machines for house use)
should be careful not to overdevelop
her back.
Here is a picture of an overdeveloped
back 1t is that of a woman athlete and
champion bag puncher. You will see
that the muscles are enormously deVel-
oped and stand out along the shoulders
squarely. almost like board. The hol-
low down the back is completely filled