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Show BEAUTY TALKS By M A Fx J OKIE DUNCAIN THE SENSIBLE SHOE PHYSICIANS will tell you that walking is the best all around exercise. ex-ercise. It brings so many muscles Into play. It stimulates the circulation. It serves as a tonic to mind and body. Set aside a half hour every day, more if you can do so, for walking. If .von are in the city, get out Into the parks. If you live in the country, take a walk in the woods, particularly in the fall. The maples are golden yellow or flaming red. Don't miss them! The long brown pods of the honey locust wave in the crisp autumn breeze, and the dogwood berries are changing green to red. Straighten your shoulders and breathe deeply. ITum a tune as you walk. And don't just saunter along but walk briskly, purposefully. And be sure that you are wearing sensible shoes. That Is very important. For ill-fitting shoes may defeat the purpose pur-pose of your walk. Remember that good posture Is impossible im-possible if feet are not comfortably shod. Remember too that shoes that pinch the feet often etch lines and wrinkles In the face.: Comfortable shoes make walking a pleasure, keep feet young, and foot Ills at bay. The shoes should be of proper length not too long (and what Is worse) not too short. A shoe expert told me recently re-cently that the tendency with American Amer-ican women is to purchase short shoes. Shoes should properly support the arch. They should hug the ankle and fit at the heel. Shoes should be wide enough. Otherwise it 'may be necessary neces-sary to tread over the outer edges of the sole. The proper heel is also important. High heels are fashionable for dinner and dance, but the smart woman suits her heels to the occasion. For walking, a medium sized heavy heel (and not a shaped heel, either) is appropriate. Aside from proper support, sup-port, it enables the feet to do the work for which they are intended and allows the body to throw its weight forward properly. Choose a strong and sturdy shoe for walking. Also keep your shoes in repair. re-pair. Run-down heels and worn leather leath-er detract from one's personal appearance. appear-ance. They also throw the foot out of natural position. This applies to shoes worn about the bouse as well as shoes for walking. Be sure that vour new shoes meet the requirements cited here. Get a pair of shoes especially es-pecially for walking. And walk. every fair clay. Walking is one of nature's simple health and beauty tonics. PITFALLS OF REDUCING IN SPITE of the fact that rounder, more feminine and flattering proportions pro-portions are in vogue, the cry still persists per-sists "let us reduce." Are there still so many fat women left in the world? I doubt it. I sincerely feel that In their desire to attain sylphlike forms women wom-en are overdoing. I don't mind counting calories, foregoing fore-going sweets and starches, and saying encouragingly "no, thank you" to a ','enerous portion of rich dessert ; I don't mind doing a little setting-up exercises ex-ercises every day to burn up excess food instead of allowing it to store and settle in fatty bulges. By all means reduce if you really have to. But know when you have had enough. Many women nre carrying this reducing re-ducing business to extremes. They don't "quit" until they've broken down every last ounce of fat. By that time not only their weight but often Mieir spirit and temper and health nnd resistance have also had their share of reducing. Know when'you have had enough. Some mechanical devices have proved helpful, but only in conjunction conjunc-tion with the sanest and safest method meth-od approved by physicians as harmless harm-less and that is diet and exercise. Food is the fuel you feed the engine called the body. Try to gunge the amount of fuel it needs to carry on so that it will burn all of it instead of storing the excess In fat. That Is what physicians will tell you. If the excess is already there, cut down on the intake and Increase the physical work by exercise. Depend upon this balanced combination of diet and ex ercise to do the work. And as you value your health, take no medicines or internal remedies except under the supervision of a reliable physician. And another pitfall to guard ngainst: don't reduce your figure at the expense of your face. Sudden and too swift reduction often leaves the face drawn and haggard looking. And reducing without compensating skin and contour care too frequently Is responsible re-sponsible for llabbiness and wrinkles The skin Is elastic. It si retches over the layers of fat beneath. When that fat falls away, what have you? A very flabby outlook. Two things every woman who Is reducing should use for skin and contour a good skin food and an nslringent. This combination combina-tion will feed the tissues and tl-lilen up the slack, thus overcoming "llabbiness. "llab-biness. Constipation has been called "beauty's "beau-ty's curse." It la no doubt responsible in large measure for Iho yellowish tinge many complain of. Laxatives are helpful but should not he made a habit. Fruit Juice, plenty of walet exercise, green vegetables, are nature's na-ture's laxatives. s.mhII, iU,. v.U soi'tli-o. |