THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 18, 1941: Bringing Up Father
NOW-CONTROL YOUR-. SELF-AGNES - YOUR THREE EX-HUSBANDS ARE GONE-REALIZE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE- ALL MEN ARE CRUEL-
THEY ARE- OH-ME- WHAT A FOOL I WAS EVERY TAME
MARRIED-
NO DOUBT- BUT-COME NOW - YOU
·MUST GO TO A HOSPITAL FOR A FEW DAYS REST-
BY GOLLY | HAD A HARD TIME GITTIN'
HER INTO THE AMBULANCE -SHE DIDN'T WANT TO GO
AT THE L'AST
MINUTE
POOR THING - I'M
GLAD SHE CAME TO HER SENSES AND REALIZES WHAT HORRID CREATURES ALL
MEN ARE –
-HUH?
Page 11 By George MacManus
THE HOSPITAL JUST 'PHONED AND SAID YOUR
MAID-"AGNES" JUST ELOPED WITH THE
· AMBULANCE DRIVER –
WHAT?
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A PAGE FOR WOMEN }
To Relieve Neck Strain
Luckily for the legion of work- ing girls, there are exercises to relieve strain which have nothing whatever to do with reducing the body or building it up. These re- freshing movements simply take the aches out that have been put into the body by working too hard or by concentrating too long on one thing.
The next time your shoulders and neck feel as heavy as lead (making you feel a thousand years ald!), strip off any tight clothing you are wearing and practice
these rovimenta.
i Take any stick or bar a yard or more long Hold it in back of you, clasped palms facing the floor. Swing the bur upward as you rise on your toes -- get good stretching, it will make you feel good. Lower your heels, re- jax a second and then repeat exer- cise, KEEP YOUR ABDOMEN IN. CHIN UP AND KNEES STRAIGHT. Repeat as often as you desire.
Banishes Back Pain
Read over the directions cure- fully this exercise before trying to do it. It is a bit tricky, but oh so good! Place your feet about twn feet apart and raise your arm. Sideways, shoulder level. PULL IN YOUR ABDOMEN, KEEP HEAD ERECT. Now twist the upper part of your body toward the left and lean back as far as possible. You should be able to touch your right l with your left hand! (Naturally your knees ward the must bend and your right au istimes. held high for balance). If you do the movement correctly you feel
a sharp stretching of your spine and shoulder muscles,
Straighten up again,
To shoo general work-a-day aches, stretch from side to side
In this position.
right.
Rolling Out Aches
Stretch fifteen from left to right, right to left, Feel RELAXED IN SHOULDER AND NECK AREA and let your head roll easily from side to side
of Get down on the floor on your You might hear a cracking back. Bend knees but keep feel bones in the shoulder-blade areu relax for on toor. Clasp arms and hold but do not let that alarm you-
high.
bones getting Now roll they are stiff
working out which they need. After rolling for a few moments, stretch out straight on the floor, point your heels, raise your chin, and rest for five minutes in that position.
a minute. Repeat by twisting to- them shoulder
Ailing Feet Cause
Nervousness
as-
Possessor of the Metropolitan's simple measures performed linicst and prettiest pair of feet, siduously prevent her feet from Lily Pons has found that certain becoming beauty liabilities.
Short and beautifully shaped. are the fact of Mies Lily Panı, favourite colouratura of the Metropolitan Opera: Sho keeps them in good condition,
a
After these three exercises you Take a feel ten years younger. nice slow shower and dress in your prettiest for a gay night
out!
of a day or during torrid weather "Have you experienced being in when feet seem to suffer more apparent good health with your than ever.
business, social and domestic You need two basins of water- affairs running smoothly and yet one filled with cold water and one you were so nervous and jumpy with hot. Plunge your feet first that you wanted to throw yourself into the hot, leave them a min- on your bed and weep in sheer ute, then plunge them into the desperation?” asks Miss Pons. "If cold. Alternate seven times. Dry you have, that feeling might easily feet vigorously with a rough have been caused by ailing feet. turkish towel, massage them well "Foot ailments cause nervous- with a soothing menthol foot lotion ness-even the slightest foot ache and sprinkle them generously with or irritation will affect your a soothing talcum powder and nerves. If your feet are in severe ra'ax with them higher than 'your pain, or if a minor ache becomes head for one half hour. This chronic, you should see .a good treatment orice or twice a week foot doctor and save yourself proves highly beneficial. many miserable days. But if you At least once a week get a good- experience only occasional foot pedicure or give yourself one- discomfort and nervousness, it stretch the toes and massage them. might be worth while for you to separately during the treatment.. adopt a simple, effective routine
to prevent those minor ailments. Strengthening Exercises
When you feel ill," Miss Pons
addition to first-aid relief points out, you go to bed until measures, Miss Pons, suggests that you are well. When your feet you buy a bag of glass marbles, trouble you you should do the scatter them about the rug and same thing. Nothing, I have disthen pick them up with your bare covered, can relieve sore and tired, toes. Difficult to do but excellent deet more quickly than a day in exercisex
bed after a good treatment and Another foot gymnastic which massage. And by a day I mean she practices frequently is this: the whole day. No brief hours of She picks up an ordinary lead shopping, marketing or social call- pencil with the toes of one foot ing press if you prefer (except and holding it, she hops across the dor shoes and stockings) but keep room on the other foot and then your feet up and off the floor for drops the pencil. There she picks twenty-four hours. Let everything it up with toes of other foot and come to you. You go to nothing hops again,. She makes from ten This may be difficult for you to do to fifteen trips across the room. but exert your willpower!"
For Instant Relief
"And do remember," she cau- tions women, to buy your new shoes long enough, wide enough Miss Pons suggests the old ro- and of a style suitable for your liable hot and cold treatment for foot structure. That is the prim quick relief of foot pain at the end ary step for foot comfort!"
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