Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-02
by JULIAN ELTINGE,
The abandonment Woman ON the Stag

NBESITY is a disease. Old age is
a habit. There is no need Of
women growing old or becoming
fat.
The happiness of many ome is
marred by the dread of old age. The
joys of their passing youth are clouded
by the thoughts of the time, rapidly
approaching, when they will be feeble
and decrepit and ignored. Old age
as a matter of years is inevitable. OLD
age as a matter of feeling is %unneces-
sary. In the light of science today one
is only as old as ones spine. A long
life and a young one awaits any wo-
man who will timber up her spine and
follow a few simple rules of health.
What obesity means to oma only
a corpulent woman can ever know. II
| Is the bane of her youth, the bette noir
of her middle age. 1t hampers her
movements. 1t makes her seem heavy
and stolid, even though her min is &C
tive and alert. 1t puts style beyond
her fondest dreams. It makes hef .
subject of comment. 1t makes her self
conscious.
A woman will do almost anything to
overcome ~corpulency. She will pursue
the sweating process until 1T leaves her
male and weak. She will starv herselr.
She will exercise until she is worn to a
shred. But she is dealing with some
thing she does not understand. In her
ignorance she fights unavailingly. But
there Is hope for her. In understanding
lies victory.
The following exercises are given to
reduce flesh, but they serve a double
purpose. To concentrate upon the body
for different movements, to hold a diff
cult p~osition and acquire a physical
balance. 4, according to scientific re-
search, means the normal COORDINATION
of all brain activities. Special atten-
ton should be paid to breathing. Inese
exercises require neither
nor apparatus. They can be practiseo
at home. 1t will not suffice to take
them only once in a while. They u
be taken steadily day after day. IL a
woman devotes to them fifteen minutes
upon rising In the morning and fifteen
minutes more before retiring, e
stoutness will soon disappear.
Exercise No. Island firmly on your
feet. YOUR heels together, and sway
backward and forward from the ankle.
Concentrate on the ankle n sway
from that point. This exercise can be
taken anywhere.
Exercise No. 2-Same position as in
exercise No. 1, but concentrate on the
knee and have the swaying start from
that point.
Exercise No. 3-Same position as in
axercise No. 1, and sway from the
hips.
Exercise No. 4-Same position as ex-
ercise No. l, and sway from the waist.
These swaylng exercises are excel
lent for poise and balance. The mo-
ton is practically the same in all OF
them. but because of the different
points from which the swaying starts
each movement creates a new centre
of balance. After these exercises have
been taken for a short time the bal
anoe will become more secure and the
hodv will sway in longer curves. Once
3. perfect balance is established all ex-
ercises will become comparatively easy.
These exercises are a great relaxation,
and a few moments of swaying will
brush away much of the friction of the
day.
EXeTclS6 NO. O-6ldhd CACClB liz ilCClo
together, the toes apart, the abdomen
retracted, the chest high. Then bend
forward and touch the floor without
bending the knees,
Exercise No. 6-Take the diagonal
stretch. Then bend to the right and
touch the floor with the right hand
without bending the knees. Reverse
the motion, touching the floor with the
left hand.
These two exercises are easy for some
people, who are soon able to place the
hands flat on the floor. Others find
them very difficult, even after long
practise, and some are never able to
do them. If these exercises cause I'M
usual fatigue or straining they should
not be attempted.
Exercise No. 7-sit fiat on the floor,
| Cross your arms and fee Then rise
without unfolding the arms.
Exercise No. S-Lie on the floor, with
the arms folSed. Rise to a sitting
position, Their to your feet. without
unfolding your arms.
Exercise No. Sect down on the
hands and toes, the body raised from
the floor. and stretch just as far as
YOU can. Push the body forward and
backward slowly for the brief space of
a moment.
Exercise No. 1O.-Stand so arely on
your feet and take n or two good
brenths. Then drop down as If you
were going to sit on your heels. Bal
ance carefully on your toes and begin
| slowly to take In another deep breath,