The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1906-09-27
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.

shoulders the right shape. These sta.
tistics are gathered from a certain
beauty specialist. The other 19 have
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 II they were car
ried right. And this list Of defects
might be carried on indefinitely, so
numerous are the faults OF those who
might have and should have a good
pair OF shoulders.
IL the shoulders are thin there is n
diet which will plump them out lit
tie. To try this diet means very little
self denial for Il 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
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 IL settles, rather. in the
arms. the hands, the neck and the
shoulders.
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
. ful to take them fresh and without
too much butter. There are fats which
seem to settle I'm the abdomen and
other fats which go toward the shoul
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 shoul-
ders stout, while third kind will
cause the cheeks to grow fat. II 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 II she knows what
10 eat.
IL the shoulders are of the sioping
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
Its neat finish and it's delicate edge.
All of these serve to bring out the old
fashioned lowness of the old-fashioned
low sloping shoulder.
The shoulder OF the matron which Is
the plump, round shoulder. is the
shoulder that can be dressed showily.
1t can be wrapped with furs and
dressed with velvets. IL can be en-.
circled with real lace and II can be |
looped and twined with jewels. This |
shoulder Is massaged until II is very
plump: bleached until 1t Is very white:
pinched until 1t is full of life, and |
spatted until II Is smooth.
II 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. II both shoul.
ders are high she bends backward un.
I'll they are equal.