THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1938.
No Pennies For Posture
So There Is No Excuse For Bad Carriage
Good posture is a plus-essen-, pull steadily upward.
Shoulders
tial to success in every phase of aerect, but loose. Hold the position woman's life. It's not, however, a for a count of thirty. Relax. Re
Three times in all. At the commodity sold across 3. counter.peat.
Nor is it a precious formula to be end of the third trial, instead of re- enjoyed by the rich. Its possession įlaxing hold the position as you take is open to all of us, regardless of thirty-steps about the room. Belax. age, size or figure. It's free. Yet Increase the "dose" daily until your
erect carriage it draws such high dividends in natural, easy, poise and personality as to make it claims your wise persistence. worth will and effort to attain.
POSTURE BASIS
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Personal Jottings
marriage has
But what's the secret? Let's hear a noted counsellor on the sub-
This tall exercise stretches the ject. She is a young woman whose
trunk to its fullest length. It pulls job it is to assist folk in the public in the abdomen, restrains the but eye to appear more beautiful, more fluid of motion and less repressedtocks, thus giving a flat back, allows the chest to expand easily and the when before an audience. I intro-
head to rise straight and free from duce Ruth Wilton. "To the average
column of the neck "to top it like young person wishing to become an actress or concert singer," says Miss a flower."
The many friends of Mr. Cameron Wilton, "the body is more of a han- It is a fundamental of right pos de Saille Robertson, manager of
ounced between Mr Peter dicap than a help. It should be a ture and so of an easy, free move the Wine Department of Messrs.
of Messrs. Jardine, partner in the new enterprise, but ing carriage. For it is not enough Gilman & Co., Ltd., will be sorry
residing at 3654 The Most merely to stand well. We must car-to hear that he was admitted to the it's usually an opponent.
eak to Miss Mary Adelaide young people, both in private and ry over the law of balance into walk-Queen Mary Hospital and under- Rattey, whose address is 10-Albion public life seem instinctively inclining, running, dancing, sitting into went an operation yesterday. It is Terrace, Kowloon Docks.
Don't be down-hearted learned that he is progressing as ed either because of shyness or all we do. carelessness to let the body car-if your first "tall-yalking about well as can be expected. ry them about instead of holding it the room is a stiff gait. It's bound under control.
to be, but if you persist in the ex- "No matter how little or how much lercise it won't be long before you'll
Mrs. P. A. Netland, wife of the they weigh," Miss Wilton continued, be balancing a whole row of books
A feat, which, so assistant manager of The Ameri- "I try first of all to teach my pupils upon your pate.
elders still say to the young, is the can Express Co., left the Colony on to take the weight out of their legs classical test for a gracefully ba-Friday in the s.s. Empress of Japan It must be lifted from the heels, lanced, gracefully carried frame.
for her home in Minesotta. Mr. Net- placed where it rightly belongs: on
land sailed on Sunday in the ss. the balls of the feet. A clodhopping
Sphinx for Calcutta. He is making gait becomes impossible if the walk-
a combined business and pleasure er learns to lift her pounds.”
trip, and will be gone for about eight months.
TUMMY IN, FLAT BÄCK!
time-
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nourishes. This again is a saving method. All of us know that in posture
When you have brushed the dust problems it is essential to contract the abdominal muscles and to pull out of your hair, and made up, give in the derriere. Tummy in, fat your hands a final touch with hand back! How many times in our lives lotion, and you are ready.
have we heard that caution. It's still good. So let's do it. It will be excellent for the waistline too, be- cause it helps keep separate the ribs and pelvic girdle; and it will give us
firm and flexible.
AND SO TO BED
Do not put off going to bed till the last possible moment.
Go Up stairs a deliberate ten minutes ear-
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Mrs. W. L Gerrard, wife of Pro- fessor Gerrard of the Hong Kong University, accompanied by her daughter Heather, left for home în the s.s. Naldera on Sa
The Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson, re- sident director of Messrs. Mackin-
the back we long for: slim, straight, lier, for, however weary you may be non, Mackenzie & Co, and one of the bedtime treatment is the most Hong Kong's leading business men, has left the Colony on home leave
But to return to Miss Wilton:
"Posture's whole aim," she explain-important beauty routine of the day and was a passenger in the ss Em
ed, "is to keep the spine straight. A
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On no account omit the cleansing press of Japan Other prominent plumb-line dropped from the crown cream treatment. If you do, sooner residents who sailed in the same of the head should fall in the space or later you are going to suffer from vessel include Mr. W. Schofield, MF. between the balls of the feet. Such what the advertisements call "cos-A. C. Wilcox, Mrs. B. Church, Mr. a spine,” she concluded, "causes the metic skin." However pure cosme and Mrs. H. West, and family, Mr. neck to rise out of the shoulders, tics are, and in these days, you could and Mrs. J. D. McLeod, Mr. A. clear and free, the head to rest eas-eat most of them without ill effects, Morris, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. de ily upon it, to top it like a flower they are not meant to be left on the Souza, Mr. and Mrs, W. 0. Lam Another point stressed gives the skin overnight. Then following with bert, Mis-F. M. McRea Mr. H. S. lie to that old injunction of our the nourising cream and the tonic, Lo, and Mrs. R. Wile schooldays, Chest out! Shoulders and finally go to bed with a skin that back!" That was, and is, very bad is perfectly clean so that it may For two reasons: It cramps the breathe freely.
Arriving to the Colony lungs and wrongly places the em Another five minutes with brush phasis for posture correction. Mo-and a little scalp massage fews Nellore from Aus Mrs. Norman Stockton, dern authority cautions us to loosen more deep breaths before the open the shoulders and to forget about window and you are ready for bed. Stockton of the Hong Ko them. Posture correction and conIn addition to this daily routine, you graph, and Mr. W. H. B trol centre about the middle of the should find time once a week for of the Hong Kong Electric body. A good way to begin is to special manicure and attention to companied by Mrs. Muskett
their two children: stand and move tall. Take this your feet.
Up with you! Let your feet be: Now I will wager that you can do six inches or so apart,
to all this in less time than it has tak
en me to write the account Moreover it is spread out
each other, toes straigh
raise your body to
by gently pulling
pelvis. Keep chin straight.
Mr.A. K. Mackenzie, secretary of the Mestre, Harry Wicking & Co., is day so that it never seriously cats leaving- Again into the day's work.
lough.
LEUNG-TAM
The marriage took place at the
Registry, Supreme Court, yesterday at 11 am, between Mr. Leung Kin Fong, son of Mr. Leung Chor Hing, and Miss Tam Suet Kwan, daughter of the late Mr. Tam Chiu Kwan.
The ceremony was performed by Mr. W. A. Jones, the Deputy Re gistrar of Marriages, and was wit- nessed by Mr. Ki Yun Wah and Mr. Chat-Ming Wan
The bridegroom is a student in the Canton University.
FOR SKIN TROUBLI
SHE KO