Beauty and You
PATRICIA LINDSAY
EXERCISE No.1
Exercise 1. Limbering
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EXERCISE N..2
Exercise 2. Firming Abdomen
Losing Weight Through Dieting Without Exercising Softens Contours
During the Summer,
women thighs and abdomen. Little can everywhere suddenly become figure be done about the over-large bust conscious. They think of bathing other than to wear well, supporting suits, of going without girdles dur-brassieres. ing hot weather, and instantly determine to slim! All my preach-,
You Will Be Stiff
ing during the winter months did If you are overweight and little good, but the bathing suit not been exercising certain
every
will make them get busy time! Sometimes I wish we were all nudists, then women would keep their health and figures up to par constantly!
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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 19, 1939
"I Received Your Letter"
Letters are intimate, and it is be- cause of that they still play as great a part in daily life in this age of telephones and telegrams as they did when paper was first made among long-forgotten peoples.
They have a special interest for women which can never be wholly lost, owing to the fact that letters first brought women into promin- ence in literature.
The very first literary production of a lady was published in the first century B. C. in Rome, and was a collection of letters pure in style and language, written by Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, and, in- dentally the first woman to whom a statute, was erected. Though that was not for her letters, but for bearing the sons, against whom, curiously enough, she wrote most of the letters, for she did not agree with them politically. Hers was the first correspondence published in Rome. Thus a woman led the way for the men to follow.
It has to be admitted, reluctantly enough, however, that the first letter forged was also the work of a wo- man. In Kings (1.21.8) it is record- ed against Jezebel: "So she wrote letters in Ahab's name."
"I was as
have. Letter writing in ancient times mus-was very like our own, as we may cles during the past months, your judge from a letter of condolence body will be stiff when you first written by Irene, a pagan, in early begin to roll and bump! But bear Christian times: up under the stiffness and soreness for the first week and you will see how quickly those muscles will re- spond to your dictation. Your body will coordinate with your wishes and soon you
will be standing, walking and dancing in better poise. The pounds will be distributed more evenly and excess weight will vanish,
But let me warn all of you that you must not begin to diet dras tically or to diet without exercis- ing, It stands to reason that if you suddenly drop off pounds through starving yourself, muscles and contours are ing to be flabby and unattractive. If after exercising you are very The only sane way to reduce is to stiff, take a hot bath with about taper your menus gradually, and to two pounds of epsom salts dumped exercise the parts of your body into it. Rest after such a bath but which need reducing. They are do not eat! Eating will put back usually upper arms, hips, buttocks, (Continued at foot of Next Col.)
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much grieved and shed as many tears over your loss as I did for my own, and so did all my friends. But there is nothing one can do in the face of such trouble. So I leave you to comfort yourselves. Good-bye." How often have we ourselves written, "there is nothing one can say at such a time."
Invitation letters were much like ours, too, and were sent out in the way we send ours:
"Greeting, my dear Serenia, from Petosiris. Be sure, dear, to come up on the 20th for the birthday festival of the god, and let me know whether you are. coming by boat or donkey.'
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A wedding invitation runs:
"Herais requests your company to dinner in célebration of the marriage of her children at her house to-morrow, the 5th, at 9 o'clock."
Coming to our own literary be- ginnings, it was because Aphra
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Behn, the first woman to earn her living by her pen, wrote such good letters that she was persuaded to take up literature as her career.. That was in the 17th century.
By the 18th century Lady Mary Wortley Montagu published her famous "Letters from the East.” In the same century Fanny Burney, the authoress of the first best-seller, was noted for her letter-writing, She used to teach the children of George III, and instructed them in. letter writing. One of the Prin- cesses presented a present to her father with the little letter:
The little bearer begs a kiss. From dea: papa for bringing: this
Recently, this form of letter writ-- ing has been revived among ultra- moderns, who send out their invita- tions to parties in verse.
Perhaps we no longer board our letters, but we still keep special ones, especially those brief ones,. which often have meant much to us.. Men are given the credit for being the best writers of brief letters, and may be they are. Napoleon used. to say, Leave a letter long enough. and it answers itself." Quite Begin With These Movements man's reply, Bismarck once wrote Here are two exercises which a letter of two words" "All right.' will help you to limber up. Sup-treasure one from a man of three: port yourself against a wall with words "I stand rebuked.” one arm, or by holding onto the back of a chair with one hand, and letter we keep. Ofter we keep a kick the opposite leg vigorously letter because of some beautiful backward as far as it will go. Keep thought, some lovely phrase, or both knees straight. Then kick it
fine descriptive paragraph..! forward. Then kick it in a wide which makes us say This ought
be preserved." swing forward and backward.. Turn around and kick the other leg in same movements. Do this for five minutes and I mean five minutes! Exercise two is to stretch, and
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