El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-18

pared especially for me by old cook.
Her grief is really pathetic, when she
watches me refuse n after another
my old favOrite dishes, and j means
as she stands at the o vol way. oh,
Ian, our Miss Baby she done get all
these queer Yankee notions, she won't
eat nOthin' NOR That's what Our
old cook thinks about my efforts Of
dieting. n I can tell you she makes
il very hard for me to refuse all the
good things that I know are bound to
make me fat
When I am working I never take
more than two meals a day. and ]
stick to this rule no matter what it
costs me in obligation.
In the morning a cup Of coffee and
toast, and then nothing more until my
early dinner between half-paSt five n
six. After the theater I take a glass
of buttermilk and a biscuit. but that's
all. 1 keep in splendid condition on
this diet, and the minute L eat any
more I know that it is not good for me
physically, and that it's corresponding
" bad mentally. Of curse it some
times takes real heroism to refuse to
eat when one is invited to luncheon,
and / find that the only way I can
avoid the temptation entirely is to run
away from 1t and to eat by myself.
so much for diet. Now comes eX-
ercise. I walk a great deal, but be-
side that 1 90 through a number of eX-
ercises every day. Oh, L really do; YOU
needn't look surprised. and III show
you just what they are"
Some Exercises.
Beautiful Miss Hanson began to
show me a set of exercises she uses.
They are the West Point setting up
exercises. They include all the stretch
ing exercises. the forward and back
ward bend, the arm. shoulder and head
exercises, which are at once the
E1mntnEr hhGf En0V-n and the most ef-
ficaciOus.
Here are some of them. which Miss
Hanson did for me, n which she
does every day:
She stands erect with her hands
clasped behind her head. and lifts the
waist muscles and the chest box,
stretching the body up as far as pos
s1ble. The same position is held while
re upper part of the body is twisted
from right to left, the muscles being
still stretched and the chest held up.
Ihere Is nothing so good as these
stretching exercises" exclaimed Miss
Hanson. especially for tall girls.
Tai women are apt to become over
conscious Of their height. and that
makes them stiff. of course. a mental
stiffness or self-consciOusness CORE
spands to the physical, and if you can
keep your body supple and elastic,
and your muscles viii stretch. you
have done a good deal toward keeping
your mind active, too.
Women grow old because they be-
come set set in their habits Of thought,
and equally set in their muscles struc-
tUre. It hasn't anything to do with
years, for you often see girls hardly
out Of their teens, whose figures show
this settled. i~nelastic attitude, which is
as much mental as it is physical Pm
positive that all these exercises Of the
body which keep the muscles flexible,
especially the waist muscles and shOul-
der muscles, have an effect on the
attitude of mind as well as on the
poise Of the body.
Mind n body are so closely inter
woven, and one reacts on the other so
continually, that it seems shameful to
neglect the physical any more than
we would neglect the intellectual side
OF life Both play an equally impOr-
tant part in this chase after health
and beauty.
What Mrs. Ffske Does.
When I was in Mrs. Fishes COM
pany 1 learned something from her
which has been a help to retain her
wonderful freshness which she brings
to her stage work every night.
NO matter what happens. Mrs.
Fiske takes half an hour Of complete
rest just before the performance. She
never deviates from this rule, and I
have tried to follow her, but I'm afraid
I'm not as strict as she is. and some
thing often turns up which cuts out
this half hour of repOse, but il is an
extraordinary way of keying ones self
up Tor the performance, in which one