El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-07
A SURE CURE FOR
..THE BLUES.7
CBy Annette KeIIermnn.)

AVING the blues never old
anybody any good. but they are
a most popular complaint Nnen
YOU get the blues" it's just like
starting on mental toboggan slide
Down, down, down you go until there
seems 10 be no bottom TO the deplh Oh
/ depression you can reach.
The lower you get the more impetus
YOU gain to speed into the DlacKest PIT
OF melancholy and distress
Almost everybody gets the blues now
and then except people whose clrcula-
ton IS perfect
Some people make habit or the
blues. and eventually become unbear-
able to themselves and to their neigh
bors.
Women are especially subject TO men
tai dependency, and many times nave
seen young girls who thought II was
rather smart and different" TO affect
a melancholy disposition and ianguld
II you pretend to be thing you can
generally succeed in being 1t really,
and 2 state Of mind like the blues" is
not TO be played with These girls de-
velop into those dreadful whiny women
who go around complaining OF every
thing, and are forever low in their
minds and blue
Then they wonder why they have no
friends.
When YOU feel yourself starting a
day badly, when You wake up Keeling
blue, stop with a jerk
start Ont the Day With Deep Breathing.
say to yourself: i won't let myself
slide down into the slough OF despond.
I'm going to climb right out"
Jump Up and 20 TO the open win
dow Throw up your head. raise your
arms and lift the body until you are
standing on tiptOe, 1nhallng as deeply
as possible Then eXhale as you lower
your arms and bring the feat back to
rest on the ground
Do this twenty or thirty times, in
haling through the nostrils. and keep
your mind on the fresh air that you
are breathing and on the process Of
clearing out the nOStrlls and lungs
which is going on, not on the low and
depressing thoughts that are giving
you the blues
believe you can control your
thoughts Just as YOU can control your
muscles. and that YOU should do this
You cannot get any real benefit from
physical exercise unless YOU keep
your mind centered on what You
want the special exercise to do for
YOU
Now YOU want these exercises TO
cOunteract the blues" and I can as
sure you il viii do so If you vii be
persistent and remember to drill your
mind as well as your body.
If you work at desk or behind
counter, or II you are butterfly who
should be happy, though I notice they
are no more cOntented than girls less
fortunate in worldly goods. don't get
the habit OF being blue
For its a habit that can he acquired
and Il is .ruinous 10 success in any
career
There never was a brilliant social
light who allowed herself 10 be VIC
timized by morbid thoughts or the
blues The women in society who
WELD the greatest influence all have
personal magnetism
Magnetism is health and vitality
and anything that is physically de-
pletings deprives one Of this magnetic
quality which is the thing that at
tracts people to US and makes Us sue
cessfuL
If you are a bushes girl watch
yourself carefully You will notice
that on the DAYS when you are blue
everything goes wrong and people
don't seem 10 take the interest in
YOU that they do on days when you
are your natural. vital self
The blues are deple ting-demaG-
netizing. Get rid OF them.
Get out in the air and learn 10
breathe rhythmiCaly II YOU suffer
from melanchOlia or the blues" When
You start out for a walk train your
self TO inhale for a certain number of
rumber.
For instance: To begin with. take
in the breath for six steps and let
it out for six steps. The larger num-
Der OF steps you can take during in
halation the better II VIII be- For.
OF course, the more you breathe in
the more the lungs are expanded
ana the more oxygen enters the
blood
It is oxygen which must cure YOU
OF the 'blues"-fres. pure air being
forced through the system and Great
ING physical energy to throw off the
lazy, lazy feeling Of mental depres-
sion
This method Of rhythmic breathing