1940-10-15 — Page 11

By George MacManus

WELL - GUESS

I HAVE ENOUGH IN THIS ROOM-

WET

A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Chart Figure Flaws

Let's assume that you want to have a more beautiful figure. The season has made you a bit dis- gusted with the figure you have neglected. You would like to feel the joy of a supple body which responds instantly to your dic- tation. You want your skin to take on a fresh loveliness, and your hair and eyes too. You want to carry yourself with poise and radiate a personality which will attract happiness. Of course, you do, any weinan in her right senses wants to!

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Well then, let's take a candid look at You, Strip down to your last garment or (if you are not too modest) stand nude before full length mirror. For the next few minutes be cruelly candid with yourself—then All in this rating:

How is your posture? Good or slumped?

Is your tummy flabby and too pronounced?

Have you rubber-tires?

Are your thighs too thick? Too skinny?

Do your breasts sag?

Are your hips too hippy?

Are your legs slim and shapely?

Is your spine too curved at

lower back?

How do you carry your head?

Erectly or forward? --

Do your legs bow?

Are your upper arms too thin?

Too Beshy?

Do you look alive and vital, or sadly droopy?

Are you overweight, or under- weight?

Does your flesh pink?

look firm and

Now Then!.

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We'll forget that you have head to-day (other than noticing how you carry it). We talk about the care of skin and hair on other days. To-day it's that figure of yours on which we are concen- trating.

Once you have charted your figure flaws, sit down for ten or fifteen minutes and determine what you are going to do about them.

Diet Or Exercise?

If it is a weight question send for my building-up diet, or one of

Dr. Winifred C. Cullis,

C.B.E.,

(University of London)

Js touring the Far East,

will speak

on

"SOME ASPECTS OF BRITAIN AT WAR”

ot two open meetings.

on

Thursday, October 17th, 1940 at

Helena May Institute, at 5.30 p.m.

-and on Thursday, October 24th, 1940

Y.M.C.A., Kowloon,

at 9.15 p.m.

Every woman desires to be as figure JUDITH BARRETT.

my reducing diets. All diets is- sued through this column have been okayed by physicians. they are safe,

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to Then try

decide whe- ther one of the competitive out- So door games wouldn't help correct some of the laws you listed. It's splendid to adopt a game as hobby for it brings you out into the open air and sunshine, in the company of others, and does won- ders in giving you a grand new perspective on life. If you are not too old, adopt ong, Women over forty-five may play golf, swim, or ride if they have ridden before. Tennis and badminton may be a bit too strenuous.

If an out-door game is impos- sible for you, plan daily on a few minutes of exercising at home, Most of us should begin with posture-correcting movements, then go in for more specific cor- rective movements such as hip jreducing, arm developing, midriff

'firming.

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