Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-28
HoUsEWoRK FOR EXERCISE
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer +.

IT'S announced that the students OF
one Of our famous womens colleges
j have closed the gymnasium and are
combinging profit and physical culture
by doing the homework. - Ill. ......
Fine. It has always been an anas-
ing paradox that women divided their
time and their money between hiring
somebody to do their homework for
them and somebody else to give them
expensive courses of exercise. MOTH
ing more conclusively proves that we:
men have no funny bone than TO meet
q fat and puffy lady who tells you in
one breath that she is taking hun
dred dollar course in reduction exer-
eises, and in the next breath bemoans
that she has to. pay forty dollars
month and board to maid; to make
Ter beds and sweep her floors. fl
1t doesn't even occur to such wo-
men that they have the antidote for
both evils right in their own hands.
For every house is as complete
gymnasium in itself, so far as offer.
ing q field for every variety OF exer.
else is concerned, as the most soienti'
flc body builder could rig UP, and
every woman by being her own cham
Mermaid could not only solve the vex.
cd servant question but that other
heartbreaking problem with which
almost every middle aged woman
wrestles in vain-how to lose fat and
keep a 1.-the and willowy figure. And
II would mean health to her, and
money in her pocket, to boot. -,
Perhaps one Of the unforeseen bles-
sings of the present conflict in Eu-
rope is thatAt is going to lessen the
conflict in the American kitchens and,
doing their own homework, which wo-
men are fnauguarating as 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 hipless figure, her small
waist, her firm, exquisitely modelled
arms, her flat 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 Homework not as drudgery but
in the light of beauty parlor, they
will not consider themselves such do.
nestle martyrs If they have to substi-
tute 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
expensive 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
1t is applied over the floor not only
promotes the growth Of the biceps but
hardens the flesh in the most synl-
metrical manner so that there are no
bulging muscles in. special places to
spoil the contour. The movement
used in sweeping also gives to the
arm a peculiar grace and flexinlllty.
Indeed, as the exercise OF sweeping,
with its bending and swaying, brings
every nerve and muscle into play 1t |
induces certain harmony Of move
ment in the whole body. This makes
the broom far superior to the dumb
bells and trapeze that were formerly
used in developing the arm muscles.
TO ACQUIRE A BEAUTIFUL |
BACK AND CHEST. The best way
to remove all superfluous adipose It's
sue, which is so disfiguring across
the base of the neck in the back, and
10 develop a plump, smooth chest is
by making beds. The upward and
outward reach of the mucles used in |
turning over the mattress and spread
ing out the covers and beating UP the
pillows act almost if by magic, es- }