The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-06
GRANDMA REVEALS HOW SHE
KEEPS HER GIRLISH FORM

Stout women, she says, should keep
their feet on the floor while fasten-
ing their shoes and they should make
q practice Of picking up everything
they drop by bending at the waist. I
am grandmother, but it Is as easy
for me to stand with the palms OF
my hands resting on the floor as it is
to stand erect. Many years ago read
that a stout woman could slenderize
by tearing paper into bits, scattering
it over the floor and then pick 1t up,
bending from the waist for each piece
of paper. I didn't tear the paper but
I have made 1t practice to bend
from the waist. have free hip &C
ton, or as they say nowadays, have
no hips. Another little habit I believe
has kept my ankles slender and flexi-
bic is rising on the toes, what you call
heel and toe drill, I believe. do this
for few minutes every morning and
every evening. When I see young
girls with flabby large ankles and a
tendency to run over the shoes ]
wish I could tell them about this ex-
ercise, for I am sure 1t helps one to
carry herself lightly and gracefully.
I regret the young woman does not
mention corsets. Corsets, foundations,
girdleS or whatever they call the
braces, supports or splints which on
one pretext or another are foisted
upon girls In the teens hasten the
development of the dreaded dumpi-
ness or uncouthness which this lis
som grandmother has SO well Tended
Oft. Such accouterment discourages
the activities described.
In spite Of the universal experience
of modern times, the quaint fancy
still prevails that 1t Is necessary or
advisable that the girl budding into
womanhood wear some such harness
to mold or restrain her natural
growth to the lines prescribed by
fashion. Fortunately, as faint glim-
merings of physiology penetrate the
benighted feminine mind this legend
Is fading away.
Young women who desire more def
Unite instruction for exercises to keep
supple may find the Third Brady
Symphony helpful. A copy will be
mailed on receipt Of your request.
with q dime and a stamped envelope
bearing your address.
Besides bending at the hips to touch
the floor with the fingers, or II pos
sible with the palms. other helpful
exercises are lifting the legs slowly
to vertical as you lie on your back,
swing the body from side to side as
you stand erect. and swinging the ex-
tended arms in great circle from
hands behind heels on the left to
hands behind heels on the right. Such
exercises should be done only two or
three times at seance at first, but
regularly every night and morning.
The heel and toe drill Is valuable
not only to keep the ankles strong
and slender but to prevent pronated
feet and flat feet. Pronated feet are
weak feet, which turn in at the an
kles: this is the early stage Of falling
arches or flat feet. The heel and
toe drill should be done with bare or
In stocking feet. First rise on toes, a.
high as you can, then slowly down
and pull the toes up 50 that you stand
on heels, then slowly down and re-
peat. Always toeing In, rocking to
and fro on the outer borders Of the
feet. This exercise, too, should be
done only two or three times at first,
but regularly every night and morn
ing.