BENDING INTO
BEAUTY!
superfluous fat in a marked de
grea
Should you wish to roniovo fal from your thighs there is min). moro infallible remedy, and that is
[BY LADY KITTY VINCENT. roiling over and over from one sido of the room to the other, with no clothes on. At, sounds such a sim-
A good deal is written in these pls remedy that people cannot be days about gymnastics and exorelievo in its efficacy, but I know for for preserving Guty and myself how wonderful, it ie, and health. In most uses they are by this exorcise alone you can re vary beneficial; but they can be duce your hips, etc,, to normal overdone, and also, only cortain
| proportions. exercises are suitable for certain people,
"You must always remember that if you develop your musclos be yond a certain point, the moment you eens to keep them in tip-top condition they will degenerate into fat, which-in many cases most unsightly;
The Bool of Most Troublon. "Another hip exercise is that of stretching out the arms on a lovel with the shouldors and bending first to the right, then wo tas teft. You must be careful to keep your are rigid at the shoulders, other wise you are doing your hips no For instance, if you cover your good at all. About twenty times arma with tennis musele, they are to each side every morning is the likely to become fat and fabby correct number for this exercise. later on, and I know of nothing. You will be frightfully stiff for a more dialiguring than the wight of day or two, but you must stick ta arms which look like lega of mutit, and you will find that the ugly rolla of fat disappear as if by ton emerging from an evening gown But there is no doubt that magic to
you can, by exercising," reduo and also hoop it in abeyanod
Bonefolg! Rolling.
fattipation, and it is the root of nearly all the illnessca" there are, It is entirely an ailment induced by civilisation. Many of the triba♬ dances, both in the East and those danced by the Americnn - Indians, are ancdien in character, designed to exercise and lubricate the intestines.
So, many women suffer from con-
One of the best exercises, aut the easiest for general reduction and to ensure fitness, is slipping. You can do this almost anywhere. even if you have only a small fat, and, of course, if you have a little garden, it is ideal. I find that skipping to a gramophona is one of the best ways of doing it, as you don't got bored, and you can koop it up much longer.
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I am not suggesting that, you. should indulge in paint and fea- thers and a tribal dance every morning, but if you will put your hands on your hips and," remain
the
exaggerated
of
walking, so that your knees touch your stomach, you will be mously benefitted.
enior-
Don't make the mistake of overing in and spot, lift your lega 11 doing it at first, especially if you Te past your first youth. It is far better to do a little every day, and to be regular in the perform- anen, than to start off with a burst and by so stiff and tired that you can do nothing for several days. can do two hundred skipa with two or three minutes' reat in hetween with great eas, and that is quite sufficient for anybody to do daily, as it will keep you in' perfect_com- dition, Naturally, you cannot start with this number, and you, must use your discretion as to how many you attempt,
Do not be discouraged if you can't manage more than twenty to begin with. It does not matter. The power of endurance will come
The definite effects a very soon. skipping are an increase of gener
al fitness and the improvement of the lung power. It also removes
For sheer all-round exercise, and especially for the middle-aged wo man they is nothing better than iwimmning. You can practise it all the yearround, it costs next to nothing, and you can regulate it according to your needs. Unless you swim a great deal, it will not overdevelop you in any direction,.. and it will make you very lithe and graceful..
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER / 23, 1931.
WOMAN'S PAGE
parts of your body firm: It will cost very little, and it will definite
y rejuvenate you.
WHAT MEN NOTICE ABOUT WOMEN.
PERSONALITY MORE THAN .CLOTHES ...
Does the
the average man know whe ther the woman who interests him
is a blonde or brunette ? Thé ques- tion is being asked of American men
to determine their power of obser vation, and most men are replying : that they never thought of the matter beforði g
• When the suuden, inquiry, is put thon hesitate andmembran afterwards. that they are compelled to duhmou to" their aiden vision of this woman. Then they usually cung answer, but in many cases there is still some confusion, especially when the woman is neither a very pro nounced ahade of light or dark.
Women, on: the contrary instant ly know about the men who in forest them. They never, have to hostilato, but can describe even the shade of blondness or the re- verse. They can also tell the colour of his scarf, the kind of clothes ire. has, the way he parta his hair, the gleam of his eyes, his manner of talking and other minute details.
Unobservant Menu
Men, it is alleged, have no such observant powere, and can reply only in vague torins about a women. Unless a man has had professional experience of women's clothes, it is generally impossible for him to say afterwards what a woman has worn, or what it is about her that his interested him...
For a woman of forty and over, who wished to regain her figure, i.
Joseph Szekely, the European should recommend swimming tection of unnecessary desh. I re-work in the midst of the discussion For general fitness and reduc-artist, has just arrived in New times a week, the exercises I have commend walking, swimming, and about men's interest in women and mentioned every morning, and a
expresses agreement, with those who woman interests him, whether she Bay a man does not know, when a is blonde or brunette.
method:
two-mile walk a day. This promoro after Nature's own
exercises, These are better and gramme will not develop muscle than violent games, especially for at least, no more than everybody those who are past their first youth, should possess, but it will make all
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I wonder what the seventeenth-
"The surest way to excel in con- century. French author who said,
versation is to linten much speak
“That is, adds Mr. Szekely, after the first five words have little, and say nothing that you been stroken. When she becomen | may he norry for;" would have interesting her colour scheme makes thought of the modern child, whose no conscious impression on the martoico in generally as much in eri- to whom she is talking.
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A woman, should turn her dence at all times and seasons as mirror to the wall when she chooses his little body. I expect he” would a gown and its accompanying de not got a prize as a conversation, corative effects. She ought to hd-alist” under these rules! jubt her colour scheme to the de
The repressions caused in former ficiencies of her personality, instead times by a ton strict observance of trying to match the colour of of the precopt that children her eyes or her hair with her ward-should be seen and not heard " robe.
were, no doubt, otton harmful, but After a man has observed a in our present day anxiety to re- woman for a moment or two, he is move auch rdpressions have we not lose conscious of her complexion allowed the pendulum to swing too. and what she is wearing than of much in the other direction her temperament. There is a sub In many households to-day the conscious effect, however, and this wishes of the child are of a para should be guarded against Drmount importance, a state of affairs stimulated, as the case may be. which entirely defeats the good. For instance, a woman who wears effects which should accrue from a colour which over-emphasises the the removal of the severer repres warmth or coolness, of her person- sive methods of the Victorian, age ality has missed hen best effect."
Mr. Szekely's philosophy concern ing woman's clothes is based on the principle that a happy medium should be effected through adjust ing colour schemes to tone down or tone up the individuality of the
woman.
Why He Becomes Faddy,
The child is consulted as to what he would like to eat, and so this question of his food uncon scicualy assumes a quite unneces sary prominence in his danly life. He is apt to become whimsical and faddy, and possessed of marked likes and dislikes, refusing whole- some diet when it is-put before him, if it is not of his own choos-
Thus, he maintains that a vivid and voluptuous type ought to dis play cool colours, with warm shades used sparingly and only as an ac- cent. Such types, he says, bre most decorative when they wear black, ing. which forms a natural balance to It is much the same in the matter. their flamboyanoe," and which of dress. If, for instance," be secures just sufficient relief from fancies himself in a dinner jacket a splash or two of colour on a shawl he is allowed to deck himself "out or Wrap, or on the heels of the as a man in miniature at an age shoes.. This inct in intuitively under | when he should obviously be wear- stood by Spanish women,
ing an Eton muit. or an ordinary black school jacket.
If a woman has the reverse teme perament and is cool and self-con- tained, she should not emphasise these traits by wehring sombre shades, but should try to produce
If the choice of the game to be. played, or the nature of the enter trinment to which he shall go in always left. by, the parents to hir a right balance by going in for deciding vote, then it is little some attractive : colouring. "Fewwonder, be, finds it difficult to ad Englishwomen, for instance," says just himself to others' ideas, when Mr. Szekely, have enough native he is with his contemporaries.. warmth to wear a black mantilla Loven their foreheads. without an
appearance of gloom."
Dress to Your Temperament.
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Making & Child, Precocious.
But the worst of all is the ten- "dency to ask the modern - child's- opinion on any, and every subject The mental attributes of women which may happen to be nader dis should be taken into consideration, cussion at the family table., - His Mr. Szekely believes, in determin views, may sometimes be amusing, ing the way they ought to dress especially on subjects beyond his. Temperament being the principal ken, but after all they san quly be factor of femininity that interests half-baked and undigested opinions, men,
the-for-seeing woman will so are valueless, and yet, the fact always Ecar this in mind.-
that they are being sought gives Women with a sharp, metallic them a fetitions importance in his intelligence," Mr. Stokely declares, eyes
self-
should wear soft and subdued This encouraging of pseudo shades. Women who are languorous expression in children on all oc can safely drape themselves in casions, simply tends to produce, colours of an electric-intensity Ruta rice of little beings who are in the coldest of colouri, Rad in cheeky or merely precocious a the warmest. Women have all the cording to general temperament. mange between them two from They so easily lose all menne which to choose the right shade to proportion and become self-satisfled, serve as a complement to their tem-Ball-centred and self-important, paramenta, three attitudes of mind which zobs ** The mirror" does not tell us thept of all the delightful charm what to wear for we assume an of childhood which is their heritage. unnatural expression when gering light happiest child in the into a looking ginzu. Women who hned child, but aserpine [know their own: temperamenta hare be confused with repress I the "surest. guide to choosing their should acht-expression" be
döthen.”.
Paola mean unbridled licence.
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