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Show ' . rdsnion MACHINES DO THE WORK AND YOU LOSE POUNDS You Can Lose Fat and Like It at Home Or in Salon With Supervision Beanty Bf ALICIA HART Along about this time of year the exercise and reducing emporiums empo-riums become Increasingly Important Impor-tant to women who are determined to achieve streamlined proportions Before It la time to buy spring clothes. Fortunately, there's the right course of exercise to suit every budget In the de luxe salons, losing a few pounds here, an Inch or two there Is a pleasant task, indeed. A soft-voiced Instructor not only will teach you how to do the exercises, ex-ercises, but will do them with you. For some unknown reason, this seems to help. When you leave the satin exercise mat, you'll be put In the capable hands of a masseuse whose efficacious method meth-od of massages has a double purpose: pur-pose: To reduce your dimensions and. to ward off any muscle stiff ness caused by the exercises. Another system of reducing makes use of specially constructed mechanical gadgets which take the place of a masseuse. A well-equipped well-equipped salon of this type contains con-tains a machine to reduce the hips, another the legs, stIU another the waistline, and so on. Then, too, there are plenty of the more rugged type of exercise studios which believe In making the customer do the work. Under the professional eye of a figure expert, she Is put through various routines which become more complicated com-plicated as the course progresses. Least expensive of aH are the gymnasiums where you may do exercises or play games with or without supervision. Ten young business women I know meet one night a week In a gymnasium of this type and play basketball for an hour. A group of women who do not go to business take, at a nominal cost, a swimming lesson one morning a k. In eny flty however small, there Is some place where women. Intent on keeping fit as well as trimly slender, may meet regularly to play games or do exercises. For the woman who finds it quite Impossible to go to a gym or to Join other women In a cooperative co-operative plan of reducing, exercises exer-cises to be done at home, a long, brisk walk every day and a sensible sensi-ble diet surely are the answer. The daffy walk is wonderful for the complexion as well as the firure. ' -w v r"ii W-iH'iip "iiiy jjP)y.J a MB muiiii i . t i mm mm aaa?-"Wr'ar.'iiWy mi aaaaa - - Air I 'i kfe? XII 11 I m eaanaaaaaaat 4,P Mechanical ingenuity, wording to combat excess poundage and too ample curves, hat developed this complei-looking machine for figure streamlining. The customer, book in hand, limply stands at her ease while the machine does the work. I m of course. To slenderize hips and thighs, rolling routines are recommended. For the waistline, bending and stretching exercises are beat. To make the stomach flat, repeat this routine 10 times a day: Lie flat on the floor with ankles together and hands clasped on chest. Keeping hands on chest and feet together, slowly lift legs upward up-ward until they are perpendicular with your body. Rest a second, then lower legs slowly. The more slowly the legs are raised and lowered, the better. Typical scene in a modern reducing telon: the model at left sits on a mechanical gadget, the rolling action of which will remove inches from any part of the body. At right, a mechanical bicycle is shown.' This helps to slenderize thighs, hips, waistline and legs. |