Evening journal., 1908-03-27
W 0 MA N X IND
THINK In CURVES
ANDBEBEAUTIfUL
Mrs. Bergh Lays Out GeOmet-
riCaI Principles for Those
in Quest OfPuIChritude

NEW YORK. March 27-Mrs. Ivah
de Chipenham Bergh, exponent Of
aesthetic physical culture" who has
opened a studio in East Fifty-ninth
street. has solved a number Of worlds
riddles that have bafiled the wisdom
of the ages.
Hereafter the recreant husband who
reaches home in the small hours, to bo
greeted by a rolling Din vigorously
welded by his wife, may diagnose the
cause at once. His wife is thinking
in angles" that's all. And. so Mrs.
Bergh's tenets threaten. the woman
who thinks in angles cannot be beauti-
ful"
If Mrs. Bergh makes good all her
promises her name will be echoed down
times corridors as the great feminine
emanc7pator. She contends that every
woman may be beautiful. and she has
charted a course to that goal. Further,
she advocates the Punishment of facial
massage and of those numerous and
mysterious cosmetics with which, so It
is charged, women have been accus-
toned to court beauty. Mental har-
mony. aided by physical culture, az
fords the universal panacea. SO Mrs.
Bergh contends In this sentence lies
the entire philosophy Of beauty seeking
which she advocates:
Do Curved Thinking.
"You can't think in angles and have
curves"
That simple gospel she asserts, avert
ed divorce in Chicago and is calcu-
lated 10 solve anything from domestic
troubles 10 feminine persistence in get
ting off a street car backward.
In other words" said Mrs. Bergh
yesterday. "if a woman will not allow
anything to rufiie her temper she is
bound to be beautiful. Beautiful
thoughts beautify women. All physi-
cal imperfections have their source In
the mind and unwholesome thoughts
make lines and wrinkles and man
beauty"
Therefore. when Mrs. Bergh conducts
her pupils in physical exercises she has
them repeat sentences rather than
count arithmetically. The pupil who
is required to swing her arms back and
forth In order TO give them grace must
repeat Beautiful thoughts beautify
women" That attunes the mind to
/ harmony while the muscles are de-
veloped This is held to be especially
beneficial for the debutante who seems
not 10 know what TO do with her hands
Live Gracious Lives.
''Those OF naughty spirit I usually
REQUIRE to repeat Gracious lives make
graceful women added Mrs. Bergh
"Those desiring greater pose I cause
TO repeat, In thyself lies triumph ol
defeat speaking the words in time
10 their exercises. 1 aim to bring th'
mind in harmony and to cause ihe
desirable elongated development Of th'
muscles and not those bumps and knoti
of muscle which prize lighters admire
I study my pupils and instruct then
individually, for it is ridiculous K
stand a fat woman. a thin woman AM
tall and short women in the class and
give them one exercise. That woul'
be like a physician administering on'
medicine for all ills"
Host Of Don'ts.
Mrs. Bergh breaches certain "Dont's,
including the following;
Don't look at the soft bloom OF
beautiful woman's cheek and wondc
If it is rough or attribute the sparlSl
of her eyes TO belladonna: sucl
thoughts are as detrimental TO you
own beauty as the iankest poiso'
would he to your health.
Don't worry over troubles; conque
them.
"Don't envy another's happiness
know that yours NAV equal It.
Opposition to thinking in angle