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Show Tackle That 'Office Spread' With Side Scissors a scissors motion. Relax your head and shoulders and be careful to do. the exercise from your hips. Repeat Re-peat from fourto six times on each hip. The second exercise goes like this: Lie on one side, stretching the uppermost leg downward and point your toes, then raise that leg straight up at your side. Raise, point and hold one, two; lower on three. Repeat several times for each leg. For the third exercise, lie on your back. Put your arms straight out on the floor. Then bring your right leg up so that the toes touch the floor behind your left arm. Repeat Re-peat this with left leg and right arm. Five times for each leg is enough. Beauty By BETTY CLARKE Business women, unless they're careful, tend to show the effects of their careers In two places, hips snd waist Hours of sitting brings on what is laughingly referred to as "office spread." It's no laughing matter. But if you sit at a typewriter or desk and don't make a special effort ef-fort to sit tall and straight all the time, the waist Is very likely to shorten and thicken. There are three exercises that, if done fairly regularly, will help offset this figure trouble, says Catharine Van Rensselaer, director direc-tor of physical education at the American Woman's club In New York. First and usually considered best Is the side-scissors. Lie on one side with your under arm extended extend-ed under your head. Rest your head on that arm. Bend your upper up-per arm at the elbow and let the tips of your fingers rest lightly on the floor at the level of your eyes as. a balance. Now raise both legs slightly and swing them backward back-ward and forward alternately in This side-scissors ts one of the best enercitet for molding the hipline. i |