New-York tribune., 1911-01-29
The Beauty BudGef

Is fatal 10 erectness, and is too frequently
INDUCED in. Watch carful Of people or
survey your fellow passengers In the sub
way. Mark how few of rhe women sit
erect. holding the muscles OF the waist line
taut, with the chin proparly upfted OBJ
serve how many, on the contrary. sit lump
! ishly with sunken chns aud Hopping sides.
A few exercises taken irref ularly-say, the
morning after reading the Budget-wlll not
counteract that habitual slump"
1t would be a good thing TO take the time
! spent in the cars perforce as a time for
drill" Sit we'll back on the seat. Seated,
draw yourself (as indignant heroines did in
| old romances) ITO your full height" Then
elongate your neck and lift your chin. Do
not stiffen yourself. of course. but merely
keep at pleasant tension.
/ But then one canno: pass away the
time with a paper or a book" objects the
| obiector
So much the better for your eyes. What
ever OF pleasure, Of profit or Of ennui de-
| struction you may gain BY reading IN
car is more than nulihed by the damage
done 10 eyes. by lines on throat and neck
and by saggng muscles that destroy the
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long and dull. train your mind. Hold 1t to
! line OF thought on some worthy subject.
Recall some beautiful passage OF literature.
PROSE or poetry. One hazards this sugges-
ton with temerity. but you may thus think
OF something even more valuable than you
, find I'm the current literature which you
sacrifice for the time being
Another brief training for tho muscles
may be enjoyed N the mounting OF the
subway stairs. Here again observation may
be a kind OF mirror. Watch the women
ascending hunch themselves forward. stun.
BILE over their own skirts, perform any one
OF the many ungraceful stunts" so often
visible on stairs. and then-hold your own
head up. keep the trunk erect and lift tho
body on the limbs up the stairs, don't let
it appear that the body is dragging the
/ limbs up.
/ one OF the exercises tina, may be profit
| ably employed on wet day is the follow
ing: Open all the windows in halls and
rooms that you can open and set the doors
wide Fill the halls and stairways with
the fresh, beautiful air Put on a sweater
If you feel cold and begin going up and
down your own stairs properly.
In descending the foot should be. as Il
were. flung a little forward before the
descent to the step below. But the entire
body should be erect. not Dent In ascend
ing the head should be thrown a little
! back. the waist muscles should be taut and
the knee bent not more than Is necessary
Some people make of the limb above and
, below the kneecap an isosceles triangle,
with the skirt as the third side, of course.
II isn't pretty.
The reader Of the Budget may now inter-
pose a real objection.
do not all these precautions tend TO self.
consciousness?
Only I'm self-consclous people. Even in
these the conviction that one is doing or
learning 10 do the right. the graceful, tho
best thing may go far 10 DO away with
ungraceful self-consclousless. But as
matter OF fact. not many OF US are really
without self-consclousness and since that
exists may It not as we'll Re put 10 soma
use? II we cannot avoid thinking abou.
ourselves at times may not our thoughts be
directed TO the most beautiful way OF doing
what we do? once any person is really in.
terested In some objective point self-con.
scousness will vanish. and not til them
How 10 cultivate the mind that a worthy
objective point may be reaohed-well. that
belongs 10 department far loftier than
the humble Budget may aspire 10 dIs&ss.
All the Budget has TO say IS that all which
elevates the mind will add more or less 10
the grace OF the body. But no elevating
thought will help the muscles much II
these be allowed to sag during long inter-
vals. and so the Budget returns To the
charge-dont read In the cars and do sit
upright. FRANCES HARMER