The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-07
WOMAN WHO
IS GRACEFUL
STYLE is SURE TO FOLLOW IF YOU
ACQUIRE THE FIRST.
E,exibility mt the Waist Line Ii Most
to he Desired-Home Exercise ana
Outdoor sports Will DO Much
Tn Aid You.

IT Is the ambition of every true
woman to be considered graceful
Beauty and style are also among the
things we desire, but we realize ina ma
IL we have grace style is sure to FOL
low, and with those two gained beauty
does not so much matter
Th thing most necessary. as you
will all agree, is a graceful walk, You
have probably sat up nights enVyins
some woman of your acquaintance
because OF her graceful walk and won
dering how you could acquire II your
self. But the question Is, Did you
analyze her walk in order TO find out
Just why 1t was graceful? Inc chah-
ces are that you did not.
II YOU had analysed 1T you would, IN
ALI probability, have discovered that
1t consisted In a gliding movement IN
which most of the action depended
upon the the thighs The knees were
relaxed so that the feet could swing
from them easily.
Moreover, you would have noticed
that she did not bring her weight down
heavily with each step upon her heels,
but that she threw her weight forward
each time upon the balls of the feet
Each step was slightly greater imam
the length of her feet and certainly
her steps were not of the short, Jerky'
choppy kind so often seen nowadays.
At each step the feet were lifted out
slightly -:om the ground.
You would also have noticed that
her walk was quiet and composed, just
as you would expect the countenance
of a woman of perfect breeding to BE-
Breeding is every bit as evident from
the gait as 1t Is from the facial ex-
preston, so you would expect to FIND
along as IL she were always in
would expect to find her face revealing
bv means of its varying expressions
ali the secret thoughts of her mind.
Good breeding and grace, you know.
seem somehow OF other, and Just as
repose goes with one so must 1t OF
necessity go with the other.
FIexibiIity of the Waist.
Another thing necessary to grace
full walk Is hexibility at the waist
line. If this were the only thing
requisite to a graceful walk 1t is to
he feared that very few fashionable
women would be graceful this season,
for 1.-The hour glass waist" Is a deadly
enemy to grace Its proud possessor
glorying in her devotion in the cause
of fashion, is so uncomfortable that
she can hardly move about let alone
make any serious attempt to be grace
full She minces along In mortal rear
lest something should break and her
princess gown be injured thereby.
She can not stoop to pick anything
off the floor and so 1t stands to reason
that In walking she finds bending from
the waist line an utter impossibllity
Her nose, moreover, is always a bright
and shining light, which no amount OF
powder can hide. But such things as
these are minor considerations when
Won realize what the cause Is. She
has worked hard and denied herself
many things in private for the sake OF
this hour glass waist" and now she
is determined to show 1t off in public
But, thank fortune. We are not all
devotees of fashion, If we were grace
would be a back number and the Ameri-
can woman would lose her high rank
among her envious sisters,
To gain this fleXibility at the waist
line dress yourself as loosely as pos
sihle and. placing your hands upon
your hips so that the finger tips are
pointing downward, bend as far TO
the right as you can and raise slowly.
Repeat to the left, front and back.
right as you can and slowly back to
position. This movement should also
be repeated to the left. These exer-
cses should be taken every morning
upon rising and kept up for fifteen
minutes.
Let me We you a word of advice
right here, In your desire to be
graceful do not make the mistake of
adopting the gait that happens for the
moment to be a popular fad. because
the mode of locomotion which was
pleasing in the woman who made II
the rage among her sisters may and
probably will have the effect of rem
dering you perfectly ridiculous SO
beware.
The hardest thing to attain is grace
in repose You can take various ex-
ercises that will enable you to acquire
graceful walk, but the attainment
O grace while in repose depends upon
the extent to which you have your ner-
vous system in control. If you are
eternalIy fldgcting with your hands
or II you are always feeling your back
hair or constantly changing your posi-
ton of course YOU can not expect to
be graceful
Do not think too much about a grace
full position, because If you do the
chances are you will not hit upon one.
The chances arc that you will strive
so hard TO he graceful that you will
overshoot the mark and only succeed
in making everybody around you UNI
comfortable.
stiff and straight as IL you had a hard
board behind YOU which would not per
NIT you t. be comfortable On the
other hand. however. do not lolI in
your chair as II you had no backbone.
II you are so short that your feet
will not touch the floor do not sit upon
the edge of the chair as If Won were
expecting every minute to get up and
run away. Occupy the whole OF the
chair and sit as comfortable as the re-
quirements of grace will permit.