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STREAMLINED

Developing Bust

Jean Harlow was always regarded by celebrated artists as an example of the love- liest torso in Hollywood. She is exactly what is meant by "streamlined."

I get more letters asking assistance in developing the bust than for almost any other figure fault. Thin girls

want curves.

Here is an exercise to aid you: Start with hands at sides; with elbows held stiff, bring them up and out straight at the sides, move arms in narrow circles, gradually increas- ing the circles until they are as wide as you can make them.

The muscles of the breast are de- veloped chiefly by special exercises of the arms, as these muscles extend across the chest and support the bust.

Take a light cane or stick and go through the following exercises to radio music, if you can. Music makes exercise easier because timing.

it provides

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Standing with feet wide apart, grasp the cane well toward either end. Bend forward, swinging the canc down; straighten and swing arms backward, lowering the behind you, elbows bent; now raise the right arin and lower the left, without letting go of the cane, which is still behind you; then do the same with other arm raised; bring the cane back, above the head and swing down to first position.

Another good exercise is, this:

Mr. Loomis is physical director of the stars at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Studios. He has charge of such

Crawford, stars as Joan Jeanette MacDonald, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, and Robert Montgomery.

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939.

FIGURES

left something undone.

Round shoulders usually accompany a flat bust, so the exercises for round shoulders will help you. Elizabeth Allan had a tendency to round shoulders when she first came to me but she conquered it and now has a pair o the prettiest shoulders in Hollyw..d.

Cross the arms in front of the chest and then throw them out and to the back. Do this moderately first, gradually increasing force.

What The Stars Foretell

By MARY BLAKE

It will be a mistake to spend too much time trying to figure out what you are going to do about" some- thing in the future. Some change in conditions might require your doing exactly the opposite thing you have planned doing this day. Very few arguments are likely to be settled in a satisfactory manner. Do everything possible not to engage in contro- versies. It is a good rule to sign nothing that you have not read, for if documents are read to you there is danger of some important clause be- ing overlooked, especially this day, when omissions either by design or through carelessness, are liable to occur. Persons invested with au- thority will have to be careful that through some error of judgment they do not do someone an injustice and arouse resentment. This day it might be well to remember that "there are: always two sides to every story." The trend of conditions makes it advisable for hosts and hostesses to endeavour to give a tough of informality to whatever entertainment they might have to offer their friends. Married and engaged couples, as well as those contemplating the practicality of an early betrothal, most consider every angle of any momentous question sub- mitted to them this day before the commit themselves.

If

a woman and September 1 is your birthday, you ought always to be able to know if your inclination is good or bad, without having to con-- sult anyone else. Your intuition should be, as a rule, correct, to in most cases. follow it. You may have need to know when to be aggressive and when not to be. It will be well, however, to remember that few people like the aggressive type of woman. You are, most likely, mentally well equipped for either a successful social or com- mercial career. As a business execu- tive, artist, musician, author lecturer, Swimming is an excellent thing for or sales agent your chances for mak- ing with all exercises, whether I Thin girls are inclined to be too girls who wish to develop theiring a successful career for yourself happen to mention it or not). Slowly ambitious. They try to do more than figures, especially if they will use are unlimited. Your matrimonial lower arms, as you exhale.

they should do, and they rush, rush, the breaststroke. If you get into the future seems to be secure through the rush all day, usually two hours behind habit of using this stroke, you will indications of an unusual amount of If you are underweight, as I assume all the things they hoped to do. Do accomplish the things you hope to do, love and devotion existing. you are if you are interested in de- only what you can manage comfort for your chest will be expanded and veloping the bust, remember that you ably and leave the rest. When I raised and your back contracted and must have plenty of rest. Don't let say leave it, I mean just that. Don't flat. yourself worry just before you go to let your mind nag you because you'

Next

Sit against a wall, feet straight ahead, making your spine touch the bed. Clear your mind of unpleasant wall all the way down. Raise the things and fill it with serene and arms, palms upward, inhaling deeply. happy thoughts, not too exciting. (Please remember to combine breath-

Limbering Up

The child born on September 1, seldom disappoints its parents by failing to live up to their most ambi- tious expectations.

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I think it is a pretty safe fet to say that the majority of women envy the legs of Dietrich (who is in her early thirties) and that the majority of men admire them! And none of us is being the least bit immoral for liking shapely limbs! Rather we are prais-.. ing the beauty of the human figure and thus inspiring all the lazybones

By Patricia Lindsay

to get busy and see just how beauti-

ful they can make their own legs!

Exercises Done

Diligently

Help Make Legs Shapely

your right leg until it is pointing straight up in the air, then as you lower it raise the left leg which creates a scissor movement in mid air. For the first day "scissor" fifteen times and increase the movement each, day thereafter and learn to do it briskly.. This exercise not only helps to beautify your legs and ankles but times to the right, then twenty times to it shapes your waist and hips as well. the left. Your toes must be pointed up. It is an excellent one to remember. Then reverse legs and repeat the exercise. Do this whenever you sit in a chair and have a few moments to spare. It will slim down legs that are too fat.

MASSAGE GREAT AID

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If you can afford a professional leg massage once or twice a week, by all means have it. Strong, trained fingers know how to rub those offending measurements away and if you will go through your exercises cách day besides, your legs will be slimmed doubly quick.

But if your budget does not permit professional- treatments, then massage your own legs. Rest your left foot on the edge of a chair while you sit in another. Relax the muscles of your leg. Then with a bit of oil or cream on your hands briskly stroke your leg (first with left hand then with right) from the back of your

If you have thick legs and ankles, and have had them during most of One leg and foot movement which your life, your only hope for reshap- should take a good ten minutes of ing is exercise, more exercise and your day is this: Sit in a straight massage. Just wishing they were backed chair with your right leg cross- slim, or hoping to slim them into ed over your left knee and support Another simple movement which ankle up to the back of your knee. beautiful contours through dieting, is yourself by holding onto the chair does wonders for the loyal is the up Your massage

should be firm and silly. You must get busy and deter where the seat joins the back. Keep- and down scissors movement. You brisk, but your leg should be relax- mine to spend many hours in whip- Ing your leg and foot straight out in lle on the floor with your hands ed. Repeat with other lóg. Do this ping them into shape.

front of you, rotate your foot twenty clasped behind your neck. Raise every day for two months.