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Show One Can Think Bulges Away Physiologist Cites Mental Procedure I NEW YORK. Almost any matron ma-tron with a bridge-table spread and an aching back can restore herself to competitive shape again, if she'll !go lie down and think the bulges 'and pains away, Dr. Alda Kelly claims. Dr. Kelly, a cheerful, slender woman, herself, has come up with a real morale booster for girls who want to reach for a sweet and still be able to touch their toes. She's worked out a reconditioning method through which she says you can get your girlish figure and fancies back merely by thinking you are exercising to beat the band. That's right. You don't have to move a single muscle except, of course, the one between your ears. Dr. Kelly, a physiologist, calls herself a "neurosomatic recondi-tioner." recondi-tioner." That's scientific girl talk for a person who teaches people how to get the most out of life with the least possible amount of energy a n d that includes banishing bulges, too. She said her system worked on 100 housewives in Cleveland, Cleve-land, so there Isn't any reason why it shouldn't work on a lot of others just as well. Essentially, her plan involves the idea of sending the right kind of genteel, relaxed impulse from the 'brain to the nervous system. The nerves carry the good word to the muscles, which obediently become strong and supple without flexing or reflexing. "Just pretending has the same effect as real motion, and it saves a lot of energy," Dr. Kelly has found. "A man can build up some muscles merely by thinking he's lifting weights. It's slow, but it works." But Dr. Kelly specializes in problem prob-lem girls. When a cranky, aching, overworked housewife goes to see Ithe neurosomatic conditioner at the fShailer Emery Lawton foundation, she is put through a series of 24 treatments and gets home-work as-'signments as-'signments of 10 minutes a day. Mrs. Harassed Heckled House-jwife House-jwife starts out by lying down and thinking she's a rag doll with the (stuffings leaking out. Then she stands up and thinks about oozing sawdust from every pore. Then she sits down and thinks jabout it. Six months of this makes her so charming that friend hus-'band hus-'band is delighted to come home every night for a chat with the Imissus. Dr. Kelly says. |