The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
DOROTEY DIX TALKS
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.


combining profit and physical culture
by doing the homework.
Fine. 1t has always been an amaz-
ing and an amusing paradox that
women divided their time and the
money between hiring somebody to
somebody else to give them expensive
courses of exercise. Nothing more
conclusively proves that women have
no funny bone than to meet a fat
and puffy lady who tells you in one
breath that she is taking a hundred
dollar course in reduction exercises,
and in the next breath bemoans that
she has to pay forty dollars month
and board to maid to make her beds
and sweep her floors.
1t doesn't even occur to such wom-
en- that they have the antidote for
For every house is as complete a gym
nasium in itself, so far as offering a
field for every variety of exercise is
concerned. as the most scientific body
by being her own chambe-maid could
not only solve the vexed servant ques-
ton but that other h art-breaking
problem with which every middle
aged woman wrestleS in vain-how to
lose fat and keep a 1.-the and wil1owy
figure And it would mean health to
her, and money in her pocket, to boot.
Perhaps one of the unforeseen
blessings of the present conflict in
Europe is that it is going to lessen the
conflict in the American kitchen and.
doing their own housework, which
women are inaugurating as a war
measure, they will keep up after the
war for the peace of mind, the
strength and good looks they have
got out of it.
Many a rich woman envies her
maid the hiple-s figure, her small
let he ifalxr dnIn
arms, her fiat back and full round
throat, and it is strange that she has
not realized that she, too, could at
tain these attractions in the same
school of physical development. May
be if women can be brought to look
upon housework not as a drudgery
but in the light of the beauty parlor.
they will not consider themselves
such domestic MAI tyrs if they have to
substitute for the hired girl.
Perhaps the day is not far distant
when the Beauty Column in the daily
prints instead of recommending to the
feminine seeker after pulchritude ex-
pensive unguents and massage, and
banting. and floor rolling, and so on,
will run somewhat after this fashion:
TO DEVELOP THE ARMS. The
best way to develop the muscles of
the arm and to render the contour
smooth and beautiful is by sweeping.
The rythmical sweep of the broom
as it is applied over the floor not only
promotes the growth of the biceps
but hardens the flesh in the most
symmetrical manner so that there
are no bullying muscles in special
places to spoil the contour. The
movement used in sweeping also gives
to the arm a peculiar grace and f]exi-
bility. Indeed, as the exercise of
sweeping, with its bending and sway
ing, brings every nerve and muscle
into play it induces a certain bar
mony of movement in the whole body
This makes the broom far superior to
the dumb bell and trapeze that were
formerly used in developing the arm
muscles.
TO ACQUIRE A BEAUTIFUL
BACK AND CHEST. The best way
to remove all superflous adipose it's
sue, which is so disfiguring across
the base of the neck in the back,
and to develop plump, smooth chest
outward reach of the muscles used
in turning over the mattress and
spreading out the covers and beating
up the pillows act almost as if by
magic, especially if this exercise is
kept up every day at a certain hour
and is performed before an open win
dow. The deep breathing required in
taking this exercise also develops the
throat and gives it the graceful. swan
IKE flexibility that is. so much ad-
TO REDUCE THE HIPS. Nothing
is so efficacious for reducing the size
OF the hips as to scrub daily the bath
room floor and rub up the tub. To
do this properly, get down on YOUR
knees with a good brush and scrub
SO vigorously that it induces a free
perspiration which is extremely bene-
fetal to the complexion. This bend
ing exercise, if persisted in long
enough, is warranted to take from
-FOUR to six inches off of any woman's
hips The continual fIexing of the
knees VIII also remove that stiffness
incident to middle age and imDart
hghtness and grace of movement
The exercise technically known as
Keeping the bathroom clean is far
more efficacious than the obsolete
rollng process, once in vogue, for
splendid on the bathroom
Another efficacious way of reduc-
ing is by waxing the floor. This ex
erclse If taken once a week in con-
necpon with daily scrubbing the bath
tub is guaranteed to give woman a
figure that will fill her friends With
envy and cause them to wonder what
brand OF Anti Fat dope she is ia king
10 REQUIRE A SLENDER AND
WlLLOWY FIGURE To ACQUIRE A
Ilgure that is slender without being
pony, that has something about il of
the 1.-the grace of a tiger, steel springs
under velvet, nothing can comnare
with laundry work. The bending
over the tub removes every particle
of fat from the waistline. The rub
ping of the clothes on the dashboard
that brings into play every muscle of
BACK and forearm, the lifting of the
arms above the head as the clothes
are pinned on the line, seem to com
pine every ldeal play of muscle in the
human body and raises il to its hieb1
est perfection.
This form of exercise cannot he too
highly recommended to women who
are approaching middle age and
whose dressmakers are beginning to
let out their belt measure and ask
them if they aren't getting a LITTLE
stout As this exercise is best carried
on while bending over tubs of hot
soapy water, it is exceedingly benefit
claI to the complexion and the hair.
TO WRITTEN AND SOFTEN THE
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