The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28

joints. The one you saw me going
through when you came in was to loosen
the shoulder joints
And seeing that my friend expected me
to applaud the theory I exclaimed, Mar
velous" in the language of the famous
DIR. Watson to Sherlock Holmes. DO
go onl' 1 insisted
1.-The modern paniste might just as well
be a pianola, If she hasn't loose wrists
and finger joints And after all these
exercises have been thoroughly tested.
then comes the goal-repose."
"A long road that has no turning" re-
marked.
Eyes, it all requires time as l told you.
and much patience" she replied, but the
result is wonderful. Why. do you know
there are people who walk all their lives
and never release the muscles of their
feet?"
'I'm one of them,'' 1 replied, as found
myself still standing all through this
talk, with never a thought of the crows
feet and the wrinkles and lines that l was
bringing upon my poor unoffending
physiognomy.
well, idiot, sit down and relax now,"
said my friend, land when you can, al
ways sit, never Standard relax, relax,
relax | want to drum it into youl When
you are in the street, or anywhere walk
ing, let your body relax, your arms hang
loose, and your shoulders be free, with
none of the artificial swing that so many
women have. In fact, never allow your
self to contract Whenever you feel in
clined to do SO, just stop and imagine you
are jelly fish or a sponge"
And with this advice | started out to
pursue the even tenor of my way.
hadn't gone hardly any distance before
1 met a masculine acquaintance of mine,
and as | just had to tell somebody that
1 was walking correctly, with no thought
of contracting, stopped him and told him
of my troubles, instead of taking them to
a policeman, and said
Have you learned the lesson of re-
pose?"
Il don't have to- said the mere man.
I'm not a woman. But while you are
sermonizing on the subject l wish to
goodness you'd teach my stenographer
some of it. She almost runs me mad
with her fidgeting All the time I'm not
debating to her she is nibbling her pencil,
or her nails, and poking the harpns into
her back hair, or using a papier poudre,
or something, until l nearly lose my
mind
How dreadful | observed. and noticed
that all the time this masculine COM
plainant was registering his kick he was
pulling at his watch fob, or twrlng his
mustachios, or opening and closing his
knife, and a thousand and one other
things which were calculated to drive one
crazy.
And as l journed homeward me thought:
.Repose either in man or woman Is
quality, devoutly to be wished for. 1T is
an attribute to awe and majesty anu
one almost as rare to humanity, as 1t is
possible to name"
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