By George MacManus
A PAGE FOR WOMEN
Rhythm For Bodily
Grace
It is not enough to exercise--- you must exercise in rhythm! Any -jerky movements repeated over and over again will destroy bodily grace instead of encouraging it.
Take the Hawaiians for instance their graceful, lovely bodies are due to their native rhythmical Every dancing and hand speech. movement is fluid. Every muscle is trained to give perfect co-ordi- nation.
To experience what I am tell- ing you try these exercises which have been stolen from our little dark beauties of the colourful Isle. Sit on the floor, tailor-fashion, with legs crossed. Keep your ⚫ shoulders level and your arms folded in casy, position and your Now buttocks firm on the floor.
in a fluid movement stretch tall at the waist and move your rib- cage from left to right in a slow, circular movement, If you have a record of Hawaiian music play it during your exercise period. After three minutes move rib- cage from right to left.
Surprising as it may seem to you, this exercise if done correctly will decrease your waist measure- iment and slenderise your hips.
Exercise It:
Still sitting tailor-fashion, place hands on hips and bend ONLY. UPPER BODY Tar right and dar left- as you keep your head back in easy position and the lower part of your body immobile. The secret of these movements is pulling against yourself that is what does the work of creating body grace.
As you bend from side to side. again stretch. tall from the waist.
Exercise I
Rita Hayworth keeps her body
beautifully fluid dancing and exercise.
through
to left by your reaching.. This is ankle to arm pits and makes your
a honey aud if you practice it body ever so much more graceful.
Stand with teet about five inches every day for a month you wi!!
and raise Bend elbows which poise
will be apart. Now for a little fun. Stand up, gain
so that palms face wall a yard apart, enviable, for it keeps your spine hands with feet about Stretch both arms out shoulder straight, your head set proudly in opposite to you. Now holding the the knees limbers muscles spine straight, bend level with palms facing floor. Try- position and it
Do this slightly, and force the middle part ing not to let your hips move, which seldom get used.
slowly first clockwise stretch far out to right, then far to a Hawaijan melody if possible, to rotate out to left. You will feel a stretch- make your movements slow and then counter-clockwise. It helps to imagine you are wearing a ing all up your spine and clear to rhythmical..
grass skirt which is swishing around as your hips, and buttocks rotate!
the tips of your fingers if you are When you have mastered. Exer- doing it correctly. Your head does cise II, you might try a hip wig- not move-it is carried from right gle, which: stretches muscles from
DON'T STOP GROWING
If you're the kind of person who,velop into a wife when the day's stays the same, all the time, then I'm sorry for you.,
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chores are done.
She might try the suggestions It shows that you're dull, and I've offered the adolescents!
fastidiousness should Personal - unadaptable-and ignorant of the.
truth that a woman always has to impel one to look nice for one's be developing from one thing to nearest and dearest, instead of another.
only for strangers who don't care. Development is. natural and While as to manners-it's not desirable, so pay it some, heed: very, civil to your husband if you you don't want to get either twist-can't get your mind off groceries ed or stuckts
when he comes home.
Adolescence has a poetry of Its own, whether it's wild, and dirty or secret and .sly.
Good manners that are the trua wisdom of the heart.
She must treat their individuali- ties, their separateness, with respect. She must, make it easy. to confide in her by not, pressing awitward questions. ́ ́
She must find Interests of her own so as not to burden them. She must try to like their friends. and be tolerant if she can't...
Above all, sho must be ready to let them go. This way she will never lose them. Even. It ishe wants to!
Couples often lose the interests they had in common (Occasional movies, discussions of the newspa~ per, radlo.music, even gossip), from But it's intolerable if it takes nothing but laziness. And very
There's always a market for the too long over developing, into dead I leaves them a
If the housewife lets that go good-time girl, who enjoys her-
self and raskes it fun to take her out.
too late to be a wife, she empuls But if she wants an, easy-come-
be a pest or leave him alono,
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youthful chargent girl: must go too. r, the time will come when
The adolescent through a self-centred period, she she can't interest him. It will be is finding out abut herself.
Then, to get her discoveries into focus, she should think more of others and less of herself she must learn about other people,
The equipment she should rake up is good manners, and sufficient personal fastidiousness,
Good manners is a solution for mothers too.
easy-go relationship, to devolop into real friendship,she must show sterner qualities. Loyalty, for Instance, and a sense of responst- The mother of young children bility, which includes not spending has an unselfish and thankles his money too freely or resenting task She gives so much; she his work. Good manners consist in making works go hard and the children, | If you're a severe, efficient girl when the other person comfortable and born through no fault of their in the office please loosen up w interested a neat way to defeat own, can only take it for granted. you're off duty. self-consciousness.
Then, from having been the How about developing a little Personal fastidiousness for the most dependent of creatures, they more glamour of an evening? adolescent begins with clean nails become independent and ready to More make-up,, scent, hair brush- ed out softly. And it it's still got and carn, and with not spilling-resent herges food!
This is, where good mannors to be that plain hard, suit-lot's. One of the world's tragedies will tide her over. In developing have some touch of frivolity, is the hou who won't ide, from a mother, to a companion. It's only less practical.choes!
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