Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-30
Madame Ise'bel

in before and pulled them out behind
they have encased them in corsets, shoul-
der straps and other harness, but nothing
has been of much avail. When the girls
vanity was aroused. when she commenced
TO admire older women and 10 wish to
emulate them in attractiveness, of her
own volition she changed her manner Of
standing and walking.
Today. unfortunately, she has no cor
rect standard before her; to slump and
stink is the fashion. She is not called on
to initiate any goddess-like perfection;
on the other hand the mature woman imi-
tates her. for no one can slump and stink
and glide as well as the immature girl
she naturally loves It and seems made
that way. -
Only One Correct Way of Walking.
There is only one correct way of walk
the center OF gravity over the ball of the
foot. The woman who walks thus is
physically well-polsed and she gives the
suggestion of the same mental equip
ment. We certainly do not admire slinky
characters. why should we be expected To
be impressed by a slinky walk?
There is only one thing to be said in
favor of a fad of this sort and that is
that It may timber up the mature woman
muscles. In trying to walk slinky she
may discover some unused hip muscles
that will be the better for little exer-
cising. For the immature girl, however,
the effect Of the present fashion can only
be bad. These are the years when she
should train her BODY rightly, not by the
standards that a passing fashion imposes,
but by the higher standards of health,
physical strength and beauty. When
4Eneas exclaims al the sight of Venus,
his goddess mother, "she walks-a queen
we have a very distinct picture in our
mind-it is not that OF woman who
sinks.
Beauty Fads Sometimes ReIuvenatIns
On the whole I am a believer in chang
ing fashions. 1 believe they keep women
alert and young, and that the slight COM
petition they engender Is healthy and in
spring. I am speaking of the normal
woman. The woman who is dissatisfied
because she can't have everything that is
new would find cause for dissatisfaction
under any conditions, and she who runs
to silly extremes would find some other
excuse except fashion for so doing II a
fad breaks up some habit that is making
a woman old or settled in aspect, or
causes her to give more thought to the
appearance she presents to the world, It
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much to say in favor of the slinky walk
even that In some cases has cured wo-
men OF bouncing, q most unpleasant
habit especially II the figure Is short and
inclined TO stoutness.
A Cure for Bouncing.
The slinky walk came to as from Paris
and from the same source we are in
structed in the new way OF holding the
arms straight at the sides with the palms
parallel with the ground. This is the
proper way, say the French fashion die
tators, to display the new fashions which
are decidedly Egyptian in origin. To the
short, nervous woman who is inclined to
hurry as she gets over the ground I
warmly recommend this fashion of carry
ing the arms and hands. 1t seems i'm
mediately to make the step longer. steady
the locomotion and to call halt on any
tendency to bounce
Sometimes 1t is not even necessary to
turn out the hands; let the arms fall
straight and imagine that the hands are