Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-25
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Beauty Secrets
What 10 Do When Your Muscles
Get Too Tired,

4 ~ SlFls VINO read tGaS page, arc your
muscles twisted into tight knots? You
s do not know, and yet as you read you
s more or less consciously relax the
- muscles that have been drawn together
I. rs you tie a rope into knot.
II you feel that YOU are frownine,
remember that ugly knotted rope and
tnntic it.
lf you lips are drawn into hard,
straight line that ages your face and
Z 8InRkes you look ungracious and un-
lovely. unite the rope. If nervousness
has made YOU draw your fingers to-
gether into the semblanco OF monkey
CLAWS. relax then. Unite the rope
Keep the thought of that k.otted
rope constantly before you. II will be
your beauty's danger signal, as the
waving red lantern is the warning of
danger on the railroad track.
Keep Muscles Loose.
rope straight. smooth, new and
fresh is not an ugly object 1t is,
especially ii ii be relaxed and loose,
at ease and soft rather graceful than
otherwise. But watch it wnen strained,
and study IL when knotted 1t is like
our riuscles-graceful when relaxed,
drawn when in motion, and ugly when
3knotted II you think Of your muscles
always as ropes. YOU will better gov
ern them.
Keep theri loose when you can, strain
Them as little possible and never
Tie them in knots.
Z Let me illustrate: There are two sor,s
OF frowns. The ugly lines between
the eyebrows may be caused by a fret
1ni disposition. But they are not al
ways signs OF temper. They may be
the lines etched by intense concentra-
ton.
Don't Frown, Smile.
In fact' ! have always considered
them not temper lines. hut student
INES have always commended tina,
close application and beauty are not
companions. Habits OF concentration
bring rewards to :he intellect, but not
10 beauty Intelligence adds 10 the
beauty a certain flashing attraction Of
the fact. but an alert intelligence is
one thing. and the red-rimmed eyes
the STOPPING shoulders and the knotted
brow caused by excessive study are
quite another.
AT your study. 1T Your work. or even
al your pleasure, as automobiling, re-
member the uSliness OF the knotted
rope. Don't frown. Or IL YOU catch
yourself frowning smile as instantly as
though You saw The man YOU love best
IN all the world approaching
III YOU md the muscles about your
liBs tightening, while YOU read or
write, relax ~ once. have seen
rope so knotied that no human being
cohla unite it. That is what habit
uoes 10 the muscles that are too long
USED IN All unnatural and unbecoming
way. For instance, the grown is un-
natural so IS the downdrawn express
sion Of the lips So are the clenched
hands So are the feet drawn tightly
together as Won sit. So are the knees
pressed together.
Lessons From Animals
we can learn from animals wonder
fui lessons in relaxation Yesterday
! saw friends bull terrier summing
hi'nse!f on the lawn. He was spread
OUT almost as fiat as rug His shin
ing mind legs We're fiattened upon the
ground. His front paws were stretched
out before him. and his head Law he.
tween them thought how differ
entity we lie. a $ We say. ut rest Va
elench our hands. frown. place our
feet backward. bend our bodies into 4
DO" and try TO go TO sleep
Then your pet cat. Have YOU noticed
now completely she re!axes when She
10 AZ rest she Is never rigid except
when having troubled dreams
The argument i offered that ami.
mails rest 50 completely because they
haTs no worries. answer tha,, n;
least at the times we rest, We mus,
approach as nearly as possible TO their
;ta'e S'"p Worrying. for the time. AT
Exercise .<ckr-Control.
Relax the frightened muscles by re.
laxing exercises. AS YOU he on me !
bed, lie, the bed hold you Don't do
rs work by holding yourself on the