Show THE ART OF SITTING DOWN To bo graceful that Is surely the desire de-sIre of nil women To a few It comes naturally enough It Is as easy to these lucky women to stand sit speak gracefully grace-fully as It Is easy to the unlucky others to be abrupt and awkward To lay down any hard andfast rules an to sitting gracefully Is lather difficult diffi-cult Perhaps the beet advice Is this Always sit us it you wcfe under observation obser-vation Do not lounge or loll about cultivate a Graceful position until It becomes be-comes part of your habits Notice how other women sit and avoid their ungraceful un-graceful poses To sit well us much care Is necessary na when one wants to stand well For practice the chair not too low H best and as much caro should be taken In poising ones back ns If there were no more support than that afforded by a threelegged stool The head should beheld be-held fairly erect and the shoulders well thrown buck The hands should lie negligently In the lap To acquire the art of sitting well dally practice Is Just as necessary as for any other accomplishment and a largo wardrobe glass Is very useful asa as-a means to an end How shocking I can almost hear someone exclaim ThIs Is nothing more than encouraging vanity Not at all Tho mere practice of putting put-ting on ones hat In front of a looking glass does not In Itself make girls vain A music student cannot perfect herself her-self In her studies unless she gives 1 a certain time every day to the work In hand why then should we not devote a little daily attention to the art of sitting sit-ting well Put a chair sideways to the glass and I sit humpy shoulders round and the I body all of a heap Slowly and steadIly I stead-Ily turn the head round to look at the reflection In the quicksilver conscience Very gradually the body rears Itself the shoulders are thrown back the figure I turns slightly on the sent one arm half droops over the > arm of the chair the I sitters feel almost unconsciously cross I themselves and the result Is an easy I and graceful pose Tho heroine of short stories always sinks gracefully Into a chair To do this Is not so easy ar It would appear Chairs are of every different heights and sometimes such an attempt results In a sudden jerk or unexpected drop of several Inches The old proverb Look before you leap may not be Inaptly applied when strange chairs have to be encountcrcd Cicely McDonell In New York News |