The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-09-14
APRETTY SHOULDER
ALMOST ANY WOMAN MAY HAVE
THEM If SHE LIKES.
How to Acquire the Proper Slope and
Plumpness and How to Dress the
Different Shapes with
Best Effect.


Just one woman in 20 has pair OF
shoulders the right shape. These sta
, tistics are gathered from a certain
beauty specialist. The other 10 have
shoulders that are either too high or
too low. Many have round shoulders.
Others have hoop shoulders. One out
of three will have shoulders that ex-
tend too far forward. Fifty per cent.
have shoulders of unequal height.
Twenty-Five per cent. have shoulders
that would be right if they were car
ried right. And this list of defects
might be carried on Indefinitely, sc
numerous are the faults of those who
might have and should have a good
pair of shoulders.
If the shoulders are thin there is
diet which will plump them out lit
tie. To try this diet means very little
self denial for it consists of food which
nearly everybody likes. The basis is
chocolate, and the chocolate diet will,
in time, make not only the neck, but
the arms and shoulders and hands
plump.
There is, put away in an obscure but
picturesque part of Germany, little
"cure" which is called the chocolate
cure. Here the patients go to get
stout They study the scenery, drink
chocolate and cocoa, eat it and grow
just fat enough.
The beauty of the chocolate ''cure"
is that the fat settles in the right
place. 1t does not stop at the abdo-
men. But it settles, rather, in the
arms, the hands, the neck and the
shoulders. In very little while the
patients become beautiful.
The cereals will plump out the neck.
but one must not take too much
cream with them Vegetables also
plump the neck, but one must be care
| full to take them fresh and without
| too much butter. There are fats which
seem to settle in the abdomen and
! other fats which go toward the shout
| ders and hands. 1t is curious to the
| student of beauty to observe the diff
| ferent direction which the flesh will
| take. One kind of food, namely pota-
| toes, will make the abdomen full. An
other kind of food will make the Shout
| ders stout, while a third kind will
cause the cheeks to grow fat. 1t is
| a knowledge of these various kinds of
food which makes a woman pretty or
! otherwise. She can really govern her
| fat to suit herself if she knows what
! to eat
| If the shoulders are OF the sloping
or old-fashioned type they should be
| dressed very plainly. A Quaker hand
| kerchief folded around the shoulders
| in such manner as to make them
| still lower and still more sloping is the
| prettiest thing in the work. Next
| comes the Priscilla scarf, which is a
sort of plain muslin fichu; and third,
| there is the plain round low neck, with
| it's neat finish and its delicate edge.
All of these serve to bring out the old
| fashioned lowness of the old-fashioned
low sloping shoulder.
| The shoulder of the nlatron which is
shoulder that can be, dressed SLOWLY.
| 1t can be wrapped with furs and
dressed with velvets. 1t can be en-
| circled with real lace and it can be
| looped and twined with jewels. This
shoulder is massaged until it is very
plump; bleached until it is very white;
pinched until it is full of life, and
spatted until it is smooth.
! The girlish shoulder which is the
slender. delicate shoulder, is prettiest
dressed in something fluffy. Tulle,
| gauze, chiffon and si1vered stuffs are
loveliest And the shoulder should be
! dressed very low SO as to show it's
| delicate curves.
If the shoulders, in spite of every
/ art persist in being uneven and ugly
there are exercises that can be taken
| for them. One of these is the weight
| exercise. The victims walks up and
down for Is minutes a day carrying a
| weight in her short arm-the arm
with the high shoulder. In time this
| will lower the shoulder. If both Shout
ders are high she bends backward I'm.
til they are equal.
The shoulder exercise, the shoulder
diet, the shoulder massage and the
shoulder treatment will, in time, make
| any pair of shoulders handsome. And
| in short while the worst pair of arms
| and neck will become beautiful. 1t
| takes about four weeks of constant
care But at the end of that time the
| results will be SO good that the patient
will not regret the time she spent
| upon the work of reforming her shape.