The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-10
r. AVE you ever watched a
fish breathe?" asked the

dark-eyed Zoe Barnett,
of Lew Fields's "All
Aboard" company. NO, I'm not bring
ing the role of coincidence into this
interview | am about to tell you the
greatest beauty secret | know. A fish
breathes visibly-you can see it's little
sides expand and contract as it
breathes deeply and all over its body.
But most women breathe either in the
top of their lungs or expand their dia-
phragms as much as their stiff cor
sets will let them. Now | wear cor
sets of "Grecian tricot''-or webbing
and those corsets breathe with me-"
We were sitting in Miss Barnett's
own coolshadowed room, and the
grateful breeze that fluttered the cur
tains had not seemed a possible thing
down on the sidewalks below Ny hos
tess was wearing a fascinating pink
kimono-just the pink to bring a flush
to the clear olive of her cheeks; pink
mules" peeped daintily out, and her
head was bound in a scarf of soft pink
silk with big pink bow dropping in
graceful lines just at the base of left
ear that fitted in with the color
scheme of sea-shell pink. A very witch
ing negligee for a midsummer day.
Try it with the finishing touch of SUI
rah silk sash and see, little sisters.
AN EXHIBITION.
Now | will give you a little exhibit
ton of proper breathing, and then you
would probably like a little sermon
on just what it does for you," went on
Do,
er's lot an easy one, indeed.
please put your hands here on my
ribs and feel them press out and out
till they are fully expanded by my full
lungs and till my chest is pushed way
UP by those same lungs, and all the
hollows in throat and neck are padded
out and filled by the splendid clean air
! am drawing up from my diaphragm.
That is deep breathing.
Deep breathing helps you have
figure that is slender yet round. 1t
banishes hollows and unupholstered
bones, and it helps the skin throw off
impurities and keep white and fine of
texture. 1t let's you have clear voice,
with plenty of reserve power and
strength back of it. Try it at an open
window twenty times each morning
increase your twenty to thirty-to fif-
ty-breathe deeply whenever you are
outdoors-and finally grow into the
habit of breathing deeply all the time.
do you know, when | feel a little
headache starting or find an attack of
indigestion imminent, l rush to the
open window and breathe deeper and
deeper until that internal application
of fresh air clears my system and
wards off the threatened attack.
"Do you aid and abet your deep
breathing measure by some sensible
dietary laws" | asked
"Oh, yes, the food supply is first aid
to the air supply" said the girl who
adds so much wholesome sanity to the
more scintillant charm of her delight
full personality Il eat only two meals
day. | find that | can sing over a
sore throat-even an liberated one
but my voice will not make, music over
an over-worked and protesting stom-
aCh. Over-eating seems to be a more
general complaint than starvation in
our land of too plenty"
CHOOSING COSTUMES.
And to your theory of unlimited
fresh air and limited food supply you
add bit of originality in choosing cos
tunes, don't you?"
"a good bit" was the answer. 81
loathe putting myself into clothes that
some one else has designed for me.
l don't feel quite free to be myself UNI
less everything about me is me and
expresses me. | like my clothes to be
one form of my self-expression, and l
think it is worth while bringing ear
nest study TO the understanding of
your own type. But if a woman lacks
that great essential taste, she can do