Show Plant Your Feet Right for Grace F Famous amOU Dancer Advises y 5 i 0 A a A 1 3 v 0 1 t i I 1 American Girl Has las Beautiful Beautiful Beau Beau- Feet Doris Niles Says Editors Editor's note This Is Js the fifths fifth oCa of oC ofa ofa a series of six articles on How to Grow Graceful Graceful- written exclusively for tor Nl NEA A Service and The Telegram by Doris Niles youngest American dancer to head her own ballet or 01 or- or By DORIS NILES MILES The American girl has feet feet and the surpassing art shown in iii every variety of American footwear footwear foot foot- wear is worth worthy of her hel At no period period pe pe- nod in Inthe the history of dress iress have girls' girls feet been more prominent and consequently requiring greater skill in man management Therefore the vc vexed cd question of what to do gracefully gracefully grace grace- fully with the hands has now added to It and difficult dif dl- one gra graceful use se of the feet To eliminate any extreme position of the feet in walking if the habit is abnormal in either toeing in or toeing out practice the straight foot line liy ily r this I mean l to walk waIl along a straight line in the desi design n non on a a. carpet See that the feet are planted straight and properly on that line and continue so throughout throughout through through- out the the- exercise exorcise made a a. r few w minutes minutes min mm- utes at a a. time In Imi addition thought and attention should be given gl the straight line principle In general walking Time The fault will soon vanish yanish I have had to give exercises Inthis in inthis inthis this same direction to many aspirants aspirants as as- for my may ballet who came cam if 10 I o otile me tile from over over technical masters This usually results from over training in the turn tum out position necessary to a n. certain degree I in toe toe dancing but a a. great fa fault in ill interpretative or oi other forms of dancing This fault af affects af aC equally the tue natural beauty of lie C walking or positions of the feet in repose I have seen people sit in ina a a. brilliant bril ballroom when the tho feet and hand positions absolutely marred d an nn otherwise beautiful picture they would have havo made Relaxed repose and amid grace graco were vere the time things needed But they were leaning with elbows on knees and with their toes turned in In or some equally ugly position It is a a. strange truth that emotions emotions emo erno- which may be concealed in a persons person's face find unconsciously telltale expression iu itt tIme till feet Self consciousness nervousness timidity may be revealed in hands and feet by twisting and s I movements mo though the countenance is calm Proper poso o of the feet in iii relaxed graceful position while silting sitting and when standing to shift the weight of ot the tho body occasionally and easily rosily from ono one foot to theother tho the other will give 1 0 a a. touch of elegance gance to figure I any |