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Symmetrical Legs

BY DONALD LOOMIS

Jean Chatburn here illustrates an exercise for acquiring a lovely pair of legs.

She could do this by supporting her- self in a door way, holding on to either side while she slanted her body as for as possible, but I am supporting her by the shoulders so that you can see the position.

She alternately lowers and raises her toes from the floor, As she does this she feels the pull all the way up her leg.

Because skirts are so much shorter and because girls go in for shorts al- most universally, a streamlined leg is becoming more and more important.

A number of the stars who come to me enjoy riding bicycles, and this sport I recommend to them if they need to reduce, for it will tear down fat at a good rate. It is also an ex- cellent exercise for weak or stiff an- kles or fallen arches. Press the pedal on the ball of the foot, very firmly, to get the best results.

If you do not own a bicycle, don't despair. All you need do is pretend you have on and use the bicycle exer- cise, with which you may be familiar.

Mr. Loomis is physical director of the stars at Metro-Goldwyn. Mayer Studios. He has charge of such stars as Joan Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald, Joán Har. low, Norma Shearer, Robert Tay- lor,

Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery.

Lie flat on your back on the floor, not believe that skinny legs are any raise your legs up into the air until less desirable. Both need to be re- your weight rests on the upper part modelled.

of your back, support your waist with

thin that

your hands and rotate your legs in Sometimes girls are so the air as if you were riding a bicycle, nothing they eat seems to feed them. keeping your thighs as close together This is because they do not live in- as possible.

telligently. They may eat heavily, but the glands of the small intestines Fat legs are a detriment to any girl are not functioning properly so they who has screen ambitions, but I do get no nourishment. The reason for

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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 23, 1939

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Daytime Dress For Large Women

this is that they live at a nervous ten- sion.

They never walk. If they are go- ing two blocks they get out the car, or they take a bus. They never drink water. They worry all the time about something, and the nerves of the ab- domen tighten so that they can't di- gest their food.

Remember to walk whenever you can. Drink six or eight glasses of water every day. Make your mind obey you; drag it off the nagging wor- Ty and put it on something pleasant, even if that pleasant thing is just the weather or the colour in a cloud. Re- lax mentally and you will physically Then you will begin to rebuild your health and your figure. Your food will nourish you, and you will feel like living.

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What The Stars Foretell

By MARY BLAKE

amiable.

You were born under the Zodiacal If a woman and August 23 is your sign. "Virgo." People who are born birthday, you are probably very soci-- while the sun is in Virgo are usually inclined to be diffident, rather studi-

able and

Your agreeable. ous, and capable of doing a great deal manners are likely to win many ad- of constructive thinking. Thriftness is mirers. You ought to have excellent generally one of their outstanding vir- contorl over your temper and possess. tues. Nervous energy, more than the gift of making people laugh when physical brawn, makes the average they may be inclined to cry. You child of Virgo a tireless worker. Gen- | probably give great amount of thought - crally walking encyclopedias, family to what you are going to eat and and friends frequently keep them busy wear. Yellow, is a colour to which supplying them with information. you may be decidedly partial. Work Possessing exceptional good business involving the handling of food, pre- judgment, whatever the do is usually paration of formulas, teaching, writ--- thoroughly practical. If born on thising, acting, or selling, may be the best date you ought to have a fluent ton-kind for you to engage in. Your ma- gue, when once you get started on a | trimonial future will work out satis- · subject. Your birthstones are the factorily if you and your husband co....... chrysolite, and Pink Jasper. Wednes-operate and face your problems to- day is likely to be your luckiest day | gether. -

August 23 may

in the week. Azaleas, morning glory The child born on and lavender are among the flowers be quietly inquisitive. The spirit of that are your natural affinities. Mar- | children born on this date is easily ried and engaged couples and those broken, so considerable patience and whose engagement announcement is tact may be needed to handle them only a matter of time, must bear in successfully. With the proper amount mind that love, to be 'enduring, must of

care, love and training, Virgo have as an inspiration, loyal devotion youngsters are frequently among the and a strict regard for moral obliga- wold's most successful men and wo- tions.

men.