Show THE GIRL YOU WOULD BY CORRECTIVE EXERCISES KATHERINE KATRI E LIKE TO BE MORTON i FOR TI THE E SUMMER GIRL L I While the summer summer was undoubtedly i Intended for lolling lounging and for idling the strenuous American woman when she does not spend it In a light lightning lightning lightning ning trip around the world indulges In even ven more exciting physical culture ex cx exercises exercises than she docs does in the cold win ter days If you have ever spent Dent a summer in Newport you will have to stretch your imagination in order TO give time to the society girl to rest for forrest forrest forrest rest she simply never does She is on the go from morning till night By the end of the season she Is usually a champion tennis player golf player swimmer or rower and has succeeded in decreasing her weight to a minimum A good many of the women in New Newport N Newport W port in the pursuit of sylphlike sylph like fig ures urea undergo tortures which the early Christian martyrs would have hesitated to contemplate They certainly aCco accomplish 1 pUsh the results but oh at t what a aprice aprice price In order that all too solid flesh fIech may melt the Newport matron will swathe swath herself in rubber bandages cr loT worse still rubber suits On top to of this she will wear her ordinary cloth Ing and wil will quicken her sweating process by donning her golf sweater or I even her heavy leather automobile coat It sounds warm does it not up tIp this way ay the sylph exer i in the privacy of her garden and the flesh literally melts off her herNo Now No while this Is undoubtedly the quickest way of getting thin if pursued for any length of time it is too severe sever a atrial atrial atrial trial for it is more Hk a perpetual Turkish bath than anything else Of course the subject Is allow allowed Pd d to eat anything she chooses or 01 to take as a many naps as she likes and this is one reason leason why this particular obesity cure cur curIs Is popular among tho the women of the smart set On the in the wee hours of the morning mornin you ou may occasionally see a stout woman clad in her bathing suit running bounding up u and down in the deep de p sand She must do o this for an hour before she takes fake her dip The suit and deep sand makes every step difficult and heavy An hours daily exercise in this way is guaranteed to reduce al ai almost almost most anybody Now these methods of the blood and in that man manner manner manner ner reducing the weight are certainly startling and they are laudable in that they denand so much heroic persever perseverance ance but their traces are usually vis visible visible ible IbIe in the haggard and tired look of the subject and personally I think that less strenuous methods metho s are arc more to be lie advised particularly in the summer summertime summertime time The way the summer girl exer exercises exercises be she slight or stout is Js enough to worry any anyone one She does not worry about it until the autumn and then she finds that she has either overdeveloped overdeveloped overdeveloped her muscles es made them stand out like those of an athlete or cr else that she has attained the likeness and also the thinness of the greyhound a fine thing in a hound but not so in a woman We Ye Wesee Wesee see a great many girls whose 1 Ism for athletics has led them to over overdo overdo overdo do While there has probably been nothing so fine for the physical condi condition condition tion of the woman of this country as the fad for foi sports y yet t even in this realm common sense should step in and warn the enthusiast that she is sacrificing sacrificing beauty to strength Extreme strength is the attribute of the male when it is seen in a woman oman it takes away from rom roin her beauty b auty and from her chief charm grace The woman who punches the bag and this is one of ot the best exercising machines for house use should be careful not to overdevelop her liet back Here Iere is a a picture of an overdeveloped back It is that of a woman athlete and champion bag puncher You will see that the muscles are enormously devel developed developed developed and stand out along the shoulders squarely almost like a board The hol hollow hollow hollow low down the back te is completely filled l s I S Sw w e ef I 4 1 f 4 i S hi I 1 0 g gs gl l s t f 6 I 5 I I Ic 9 3 c c S i 7 i 1 Back OverDeveloped To Make the Waist Smaller Exercise Will Fill Out the Hollows in but not with soft fat as should be beto beto beto to fulfill the requirements of beauty but with hard protruding muscles Few women have perfect backs usually there Is a deep hollow between the shoulder blades and the shoulder blades themselves are preeminent and ugly This hollow can be filled by the moderate use of the punching bag or orby orby orby by some of the exercises below Phy Physical Physical culture will work as as much ill as asif asit asit it if does good if there is not a 0 level head back of it arranging and guiding the exercises While the woman whose hose waist muscles are weak can can strengthen them by b the different bending exer exercises exercises exercises which I will give below the wo woman woman woman man who suffers from any internal weakness should not indulge in them except when advised by her physician It is in the summer particularly that we see results of the abuse a b or the neg neglect neglect lect bet of physical culture When our oar fair fan ladies ladles walk up u J and down the beach clad in the simplicity of the bathing suit which every year seems to take on a more mor meagerness very little tittle is left to the imagination A per perfect perfect feet figure can no more be disguised than can be the th lack of it While ten tennis tennis tennis nis golf and exercises tend chiefly to develop the power of the beauty the lower limbs are very ery frequently either too tob slender too stout or badly formed Simple exercises will remedy this un underdevelopment underdevelopment underdevelopment or will increase and remodel the ankles and calves calv s of the thele le leg leThe The following are some of the very best b st exercises for developing the figure and if done persistently each one one of oft them t em will accomplish the desired desir d re result result sult suit The first of these is called the t e wicket exercise and is for forthe the purpose of strengthening and developing the I shoulders and chest The wicket exercise is good for cor round shoulders and for filling out the hollows in the neck or lifting up a flat fiat and undeveloped chest To do this exercise get a straight back chair the top of which should reach about to the waist line or a little below Stand Stan about two to feet away awa from the back of the chair placing the hands on either ther e side of the back Stand erect with the arms anTIS expanded grasping the chair Bend the body forward from the ankles pushing the chest between the arms as if they were vere a wicket The shoulders go back as the chest goes forward Now reverse the movement pushing the chest and body back until the thi arms are straight again This movement can ca l be repeated a number of times and can also be done by turning around bringing ones back to the back backof backof of the chair putting the arms back grasping the chair with the hands h and then drawing the body rd and forward between the arms Exercises to develop the arms The punching bag if used in moderation will develop both the forearm and up upper upper upper per arm Light dumbbell exercises will do the same If the subject is not ac accustomed accustom custom to exercise with dumbbells and is not strong the dumbbells should not weigh more than half a pound apiece All of the arm exercises sti stretching etching upward bending at the el ci elbow elbow bow stretching the tile arms sideways straight and bringing the dumbbells again to the shoulders etc will help develop the arms Where the time use of the punching bag or dumbbells is not desired the muscles of the arm can be strengthened and the arms developed simply by extending the arm making the muscles tense bending the time elbow and bringing the time hand up to the shoulder shoulder shoulder der the same motions made by an athlete when showing off his muscle This movement develops the arm for I i when every muscle is tense and then relaxed in unbending it exercises the I parts and stimulates the circulation of the blood Where the hips are too large or a heavy layer of fat is forming around the abdomen any of the three follow following followIng following ing exercises will wear away the fat give firmness to muscles and at the same time tim stimulate all the functions of the body b dy First Stand erect arms hanging at atthe atthe atthe the sides the feet slightly apart Fling the body sideways bending at the waist and endeavor to make the hands touch the ground This is a difficult exercise and cannot be accomplished all at once Second Stand firmly feet together r bend the right leg at the knee lifting I up the leg lek until the arms can be clasped around it Bring as much pres pressure pressure pressure sure to bear as possible upon the time mus inns muscles muscles cles des of the thigh Lower the leg and repeat with the other knee Third flat fiat on the back lift lif the legs until the feet are straight up but without bending the knees lower the legs then the knees and draw the legs up as near the chest as possible To develop the waist muscles Al Almost Almost Almost most every well developed athlete has hasa a small waist and the tile athletic woman if she carries herself well ell need never nev r be ashamed of her waist alst aist measure When hen the waist is very much too large it is due either to a layer of flabby fat around the waist and abdomen or else to the weakness of the time muscles sup supporting supporting supporting porting the tile chest which permit this to sink down thus giving the entire figure figurea a settled and awkward look This set settled settled tied look is never seen in the figure of female acrobats no matter how old they may be In order to strengthen the muscles of the waist and learn to carry the chest properly certain exer exercises exercises are necessary One of these is done in this way Stand erect with the feet slightly apart clasp the hands high above the head and swing the body from the hips with the same force To develop the lower limbs A great many women wornell who appear to be well de developed developed even fleshy when seen on the th beach in the very disillusioning bath bathing bathIng ing lag costumes apparently possess only the development of the low Jow lower Jower er limbs Sometimes this absolute lack of development Is due to some tune functional functional derangement and in that case only the righting of the organ which is out of order will do any good and anti antino no amount of physical culture will help helpin in the slightest degree When this is not the case however and the calves of the legs for instance are too slight stair climbing or bicycle riding will de develop develop develop them A very good foot for the development of the calf is to sit on a chair having first on a loose I and comfortable slipper place the foot comfortably on the floor and now raise the weight W ight on the toes arching the time instep and stiffening the muscles of the leg Lower the foot and repeat until the tile leg begins to feel tired This exercise will serve the purpose P of arch arching archIng arching I ing an instep that is flat fiat Another ex cx exercise exercise for developing the leg and at the same time making the ankle slighter is to place upon the floor a large arge book or some heavy object stand a little to toone toone toone one side of it and push the object with the one foot from right to left or vice versa The Time leg should be swinging from the tile hip and only the toes of the foot must touch the book Copyright 1906 by b T C McClure |