| Show GOING UP starrs to do gracefully Is to he accomplished shed the woman who lauds at alie lop of a flight of stairs breathless and exhausted gasping and blowing in a distressing manner ha undergone an awful physical strain the heart and the stomach hau been made to do double duty that ol 01 alie lungs and their own combined with more often only one half of the room required to do it in from the compressing force of the stays consequently one of the most graceful actions tb it a woman is called on most often to illustrate is transformed by the ignorance of a few rules ot physical culture into one of the most ludicrous and sorry sights imaginable the woman who clutches her skirts n front midway between the hip and the knee bends her body from the hips almost in a bow and drags up laboriously exhausting her vital energies at every step is making a foolish and a mistake for which slie suffers severely long before arriving at the top one of the handsomest pictures painted of feminine beauty is that of a lovely woman ascending a fine old stair aasc her slender figure is gracefully erect her licely face on 1 he column like throat turned half over lier shoulder the arms anre bare and droop with perfectly natural grace to her knees where the silken skirts are daintily lifted to rillow the free play of tiny feet the lidy is in the act of ascending and seems to float upward the personification of grace itself one imagines that he can see her catch her balken skirt at either knee lifting it just to the expand her chest hold her shoulders well back and her arms down then the slender body rests on iho hips not dragging forward and standing perfectly erect slie glides upward easily and gracefully chicago inter ocean |
