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It's easy to acquire these good

Figure Habits

Let's pull ourselves

tam

pieces The first step is to realise that

And then, following old, Omar, most bad figures are just bad habits. I Khayyam's advice, remould ourselves | For some reason-inexplicable

call it if there is a wrong way "nearer to the heart's desire."

It can be done. As I've said often of sitting, standing, walking, most before, there need be no uglynor of us choose it.

But even plain--women.

as we Some muscles get more work than don't get anything for nothing in they were meant to do as a result, this world there is a price to be others get less. That's how "flab". paid for beauty-I don't mean in forms when muscles are not pro- dollars and cents but in effort and perly used they take on a covering

of fat. in perseverance.

And you can diet as much

DIAGNOSE YOURSELF

as you like without disturbing it.

Now you know why so often diet-· ing makes you thin in the wrong

So next time you're at a dress show or the pictures or a party and see a Class A feminine figure mould-places. ing the kind of frock you long to

YOU'LL LOOK WELL

is The secret of figure beauty say, wear, don't just sigh and

muscle-control

which produces could never carry that off."

Instead, take a look at yourself good carriage. It is possible to do and make up your

"I

frock for you is for that your daily dozen-and slim and still

no

territory. not tap the real source of ideal Are you too thin? Too fat? Too stream-lining. We all know slender short? Too tall? Have you figure girls whose figures are really faults like a sway back-a "spare better than those of their fat friends. But when you can stand, sit and type" (that tiresome bulge of fat that forms round so many dia-walk well you'll look well, too not only from a health but from a beauty phragms)-or bandy legs?

There is only one way to treat view-point.

these obstacles that stand between

'Once put muscles back in the place you and the figure perfect--and that where they belong and they'll be- is to regard them as you would a have nicely again--which means the cold in the head-as a curable nuis-end of bulges and general unshape-

liness.

ance.

I

I'd better say hurriedly that. don't mean that you'll be able to sprout suddenly six inches or so or to shrink to, pocket size,

But you can cease to be- short or "too" tall. You can use your inches or lack of them to such advantage that they are not a bar to any type of dress you want to

wear.

JUST LIKE SUMS And as for pounds (avoirdupois), they can be added to or subtracted from your figures-like a sum in simple arithmetic.

PARTY DRINKS

Here are three recipes for party drinks which prospective hostesses will find popular:-

CLARET CUP

Ingredients: To every pint of claret allow 1 large bottle lemonade, 1 liqueur glass Maraschino or Cura- cao, the same of brandy, and 2 tab- lespoonfuls sugar.

able temperature until required for

use.

bottle

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 28, 1938

Flatten your tummy

like THIS.

ONE. ... Down on all fours. Make sure that your bands are directly beneath your shoulders and your thighs to a straight line with

your hips.

TWO. Raise your left leg backward and draw your tummy in.

Count L

Now it's

YOUR turn!

THE exercise you've just seen (and done? is specially good for you if you've got a protruding tummy Also, it helps to give you a supple back.

But what if your tummy is as flat as a pancake and your back so supple that you can somersault round and round your bedroom? Well, the exercise is still good for you because it'll keep your tummy flat and your back supple.

It also means that the internal to throw the muscles of feet and out ankles out of gear-and-we-- know organs are not being pushed

of position. ___Indigestion and over-what happens then yes, thickening acidity, which often cause, thinness, of the "affected part." Bandy legs, disappear when the body is proper- by the way, can be cured by re- ly poised.

medial exercises.

First how do you stand? The

ACTRESSES' MUST When you're walking, get first of test of correct posture, is that you should be able to draw an imagin- all the correct posture. Think of ary straight line from the lobe of the way in which you're going to the ear down the side of the body-move. You should walk from the hips, letting the legs swing from to the ankle bone.

the knees as the arms do from the elbow..

Your feet should be straight, the inside edges of the feet side by side. Whatever you do, don't turn your toes. out. That upsets your balance,

and also causes thick ankles.

a

THREE... Raise the middle of "yo back as high as possible. Contrast your tummy. Try to make your left knes meet your forehead. Do not bend your elbows. Count-2-Return to TWO- Count

turn to ONE: Count 4

BEAUTY TIPS

Turned-out toes will produce

Are you worried with hot damp step which jars your body. Each hands? Never put grease near the foot should follow the other so that palms, particulary before a special The axle of figure-balance is the your prints make an almost single occasion. Wash with warm water pelvis as you can easily test for line. If your legs just touch at the and formalin soap. You may buy yourself by standing sideways in knee when you walk that will be this from all chemists. Rinse well in cold water to which you have front of a glass. You can improve about right. your figure "while you wait" by The great secret of graceful walk-added a teaspoonful of toilet vine- altering the angle of your carriage ing which all actresses have togar. Then dust with talcum to help above and below the hips.

learn is to set the legs down keep the hands cool. slightly in advance of the body bottle of toilet vinegar in your hand- It is worth while to carry a tiny Let the legs lead you'll find immediate difference in grace and bag. Then whenever you wash your hands, a few drops may be added to ease of walking.

the rinsing wate

back.

an

TO REMOVE SCORCH Depilatory wax treatment for

MARKS

*

CORK AND BOTTLE Your knees should be just flexed -that puts the hip-line right.

Draw your tummy in as if you were trying to flatten it against your spine stretch the muscles of your Mix all well, and chill by setting waist as far as you can. You may the bowl in ice. Do not put lumps even find you've put on as much as

facial hair is never absolutely pain- of ice into claret cup, is this makes

a couple of inches in height and

less, it is bound to sting a little. the drink "flat." If to ice is not taken it off in girth by doing this.

But if a spot of menthol is rubbed convenient, chill as much as pos Imagine your head as the cork

on first, and a little zinc ointment sible by leaving in the coldest avail.

in a bottle, neither hanging for Scorch marks may be removed afterwards, the first will deaden the ward nor thrown too far.

with the following mixture. Take sting and the second will cure the This will help you to adjust the 2 oz. soda, 2 oz. Fuller's earth and slight redness that remains. WHITE WINE CUP Pour into a deep bowl:1

angle of your shoulders and chesta finely chopped onion, and boil

One of the best ways of discourag- Sauterne, and 1 quart bottle Devon- don't put either forward nor allow for 10 minutes in 1⁄2 pint vinegar,

Strain, and spread on the marks ing blackheads is to use a stiff rub- shire cider. Add some thin slices them to cave in.

when mixture is cold. Allow to ber sponge for rinsing the face. of lemon and 3 tablespoonfuls

This cleanses and tones up the pores sugar. Set on ice or in a cold place No more slumping into a chair dry on.

Scorch marks · can be removed without damaging the skin. When until required. Just before serving just anyhow. Whenever> · possible add another quart of cider and choose a straight-backed chair, get from white silk by putting a drop washing the face, lather it well with few slices of tinned peaches to float into it gracefully by bending the of peroxide of hydrogen on the mild soap and the hands Pay par- thighs and knees but not the back. mark and passing the iron over it; ticular attention to the base of the renose and the chin where blackheads Sit well into it so that the "small" the spot will be completely

are apt to form. An inexpensive cup is made with of your back is against the chair.moved..

Scorch marka on linen can be equal parts of cider and lemonade. Pull in the tummy and stretch up

Unless you are absolutely certain This becomes quite à festive drink the waist as if you hoped you were removed, by the following method.

Cut up 2 oniana and extract the of the massage movements, it if served in tall cider-glasses con-(elastic from the hips up.

Add to this 1⁄2 oz. white better to pat your cream in taining a cocktail cherry, a

Try not to cross the legs. If you juice. small

and a rub it in. You can be quite cer mixture tain this will never stretch the skin. on the pint vinegar. Boil the

and apply it to the scorched places. You may pat with your finger tips, Ankle-crossing should com- Leave it to dry on and then wagha pad of cotton wool, or best of all pletely cut out.

a tendency the material.

a proper patter.

on the surface.

CIDER FRUIT · CUP

PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN"

section of apple (unpeeled), a slice must, then cross them above the soap, 2 öz. Fuller's earth D

of tinned peach, and a shaving of cucumber rind. Add enough ice to "chink", and serve with drinking straws,

knees and keep the foot floor firmly placed.

It has be

than

to