The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28
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Rebose Seems To Be Bete N0ir
Of Ey0y Woman's Existence
Exploited From the Press Pulpit and Petcoat Platform
Absolutely Necessary to Beauty-Men Do Not Have
to Learn It. But It Is Womens Slogan
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

Every line of advice from the pulpit to
the woman's pages of the newspapers,
hurls at femininity the percept learn the
lesson of repose." Indeed, the readers
of magazine and newspaper literature
nowadays must be convinced ere this
that he, or more explicitly she, who re-
poses not is lost forever, irretrievably lost.
Recently 1 dropped in to see a friend
of mine in the early morning-I wouldn's
be guilty of such an intrusion at any
other time except when the thermometer
was at 90 Fahrenheit-and found the afore-
said friend arrayed in ravshingly beau
tiful peignoir, standing in front of her
boudoir window. which fortunately did
not open upon public highway-franti-
cally brandishing her arms and swaying
hither and thither in a manner that would
have made Swaboda look like a lamb
peacefully reposing with the biblical lion.
Mercy" / exclaimed, st feel like an
authoress who has just received the ad-
vance copy of her first book, as l be-
hold you carrying out the instructions OF
Dolly Dalrymple's hints with regard TO
health and beauty But | must make
some suggestions as to that particular
exercise. You have donned the loose robe,
and you are standing before the open
window all right, but the waving of your
arms like battle ak is not quite correct.
The directions said: Without bending
the knees, lean forward, touching the
floor with the finger tips, repeating this
a dozen times in succession"
"All rot and utter bosn." rejoined my
friend. you've been away two whole
months and 1 haven't read a beauty
column since you left.'
Thanks awfully" l mirthfully replied
| 81 feel more than complimented that a
student of Ibsen and Browning like your
self should waste any time on the frou-
frou, the fripperies and nonsense of the
beauty column-but let me tell you one
thing, when you do read, do SO more
carefully. That exercise you are taking
is for reducing the hips, and l imagined
you were doing it to look Junoesque in
the tight-fitting gowns of the day
stuff and nonsense she calculated,
i've as good figure as the best and I am
doing these exercises from an entirely
different standpoint"
And pray, what is that standpoint,
may l inquire" this in my most dignified
pose endeavoring to initiate her Juno
esque air.
Merely the lesson of repose," was the
quick reply.
"Repose? Repose," l reiterated. why,
you look one of the Vall1yries-robut
, and warike-and anything but repose-
full"
1.-The result comes about through these
exercises, not relaxation" my friend OBJ
served.
DO EXPLAIN l insisted, holding my
tongue further, for fear of exposing my
ignorance.
Its beautiful theory and we'll worth
while, although 1t takes time and pa
tience," said she.
Everything does that is worth doing"
I bromidically replied.
81 got all this from my music teacher"
was the information furnished. you
know piano playing nowadays is just as
different from that formerly adopted when
l went to school as the style of dress
Why, you don't even sit at the piano
now like we used to. The movement of
the hands and wrists and fingers-all is
totally different When / took up my
music within the past few months my
teacher said she had exercises, and there
they were, sure enough, all illustrated in
the book, for loosening the fingers. Then
there was another, to loosen the wrist