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Show I ! Woman's World. Dc7ZZd, i I ' Specially Prepared for Our Feminine Readers. - it : 1 THREE WISHES." An infant in its cradle slept, 1 And in its sleep it smiled I And one by one three women knelt I To kiss the fair-haired child; I And each thought of the days to be 1 , And breathed a prayer half silently. 1 1 One poured her love on many lives, But knew love's toil and carej I , Its burdens olt had been to her I A heavy weight to bear. I Fhe 8toopl and murmured lovingly: I "Not hardened hands, dear child, for I ' ; ' thee." I , One had not known the burdened hands, iljut knew the empty heart; At life's rich banquet he had sat, , An unfed guest, apart, I "Oh, not." she whispered, tenderly, 1 "An empty heart, dear child, for thee." I And one was old; she had known care, f She had known loneliness; 1 She knew God leads us by no path j His presence cannot bless, I She smiled, and murmured, truthfully: I "God's will, God's will, dear child, for 1 the." I A BOUND WAIST ! i AND SLENDER HIPS. ' I (From Chicago Tribune.) I It sent a shiver through the average 1 woman when she read that hips would I not be worn this summer. 1 But those who were "in the know" 1 merely laughed and said nothing. Well, they understood that hips were I . easily controlled, and well, indeed, did I they know that the matter of hips or I no hips was one to be decided by each I individual. I Said a New York society woman, on I hearing the dictum: "I shall be rid of 1 , my hips inside of six weeks, and, if I I am persistent, I shall be rid of them I in less time." I One of the first beauty exponents in I the world an old-time beauty doctor I a friend of the famous Dr. Banting, 1 once said that she would undertake I to reduce hips at the rate of three 1 " pounds a week, and that, in a month's I time, the hips would be so much J smaller that the clothing would sag I and the waist be too slender for the I gown. I It is too bad that hips have gone out I 1 of style, but it must be confessed that i I 1 they were not pretty. That distressing walk, known as a waggle, is the result of big hips; and when this degenerates I into a waddle it is still worse. I Those who try to reduce the hips by I the rotary movement, the wagging of I the body from side to side, and the bending backward and bending for- I : ward run some little risk. ! Tt would be a good thing if every I woman could be endowed with a I knowledge of how long to make her 1 hour of exercise. It is certainly impos- I Fible to lay down any particular law I which shall apply to every case. I A stout woman, one of the kind ! known as fat, a woman in the 200 S pounds, should exercise lightly at first. If she takes off her corset, or loossens It and bends foward, as fast as she can. I i twice, she is out of breath. Then if I 1 she sways her body to the right and to I ; , the left, she is tired out. j For the fat woman this is about all the exercise that can be taken at one I time. I With this exercise she should diet. j i For breakfast let her eat a dish of I fruit and take two slices of lightly but- I tried toast and a single cup of coffee 1 She can eat all the fruit she wants and can take anything from grape fruit to I berries, and from figs to prunes. But ' the should net take anything else ex- cept her toast. I A faintness will often follow the sud- f den dieting, and the fat woman will I think herself about to die. Let her fear I not. She will not starve. 1 In Ireland during the famine there I was a saying that no one ever starved 1 to d!iLth with a bunch of fat on the calf I of the leg. 1 It is a fact that the body, when de- - i prived of food, can live a long time ; upon its tissues, and a fat person well supplied with tissues will not receive bodily injury from going without food for days. Cases of those who have fast- ' . . ?d are on record with a period of fast extending up to thirty days. But the fat woman need not fast j thirty days, nor one day. For lunch she can eat eggs or chops, with a cup j of tea or coffee, and she can have toast. I In her diet, neon and night, there I can be vegetables, fruit and toast. And ehe can have meat once a day. I Surely no one ought to complain of ? that. , The fat woman's exercise must keep j pace with her dieting. It will do no I 1 good to go without food unless, at the I same time, she will take a sufficient I amount of exercise to reduce the fat. I "Getting the fat started" is what I they call it in London, where the j t - b.'fiiitv doctors are all at work lower- I ing the abdomen and reducing the hips of the English 400. . . The first pound, they will all tell - you, is the most difficult, but after that is once lost the rest comes easy. An exercise for the fat woman is the flying exercise. To do this she must stand upon one foot, balance herself, i and hold a wand aloft in both hands. The wand is a simple gymnastic in- I strument. It can be purchased in any I shop dealing in gymnastic supplies, or it can be manufactured at home from i simple materials. It is a long, straight, heavy pole, with enough strength to j bear the stress of the work and weight that is put upon it. . There is probably not one fat woman j In a hundred who can bear all her ; weight upon one leg. Herankle will turn; her foot will give out; her leg will cramp; she cannot keep her bal-, bal-, ance. It is to her an ordeal. : How many slender women can stand ; f upon one foot. Get out your footstools, ; ye women of slender build, and try. 3 test your weight upon one foot, lift the other, drawing up the foot as high as possible. If you have no other instrument at hand take a cane and lift it high over ,, your head. This gives the body bal- i ance. The wand is the instrument to use, but in the absence of a wand a I ' walking stick will do, or a broomstick, 3 anything that is of. equal weight from . one end to the other. I It is doubtful if a fat woman could I do this, but she can try. It will not I ' injure her to make the attempt. She 1 will probably feel faint, as though she were tearing her heart from her body f and ripping out her lungs at the same -v time. But the little exercise will not ' t really hurt her. The fat woman, after she has exer-I exer-I j . ; c ised, will w ant to take a bath. 0 She : ' ; really ought to do so, for she has been . ' 1 using unaocustomr muscles and the , i f chances are that 5I1 1 be stiff if she ; j ,' I l'es not take tliv jKvessary precau- ( j ' ! tions. n ' ' ' The thin woinuu. or the woman of medium build, who is exercising to keep her figure down or to round her waist a little, should also take a bath after exercise. She may grow stiff if she j ' does not do so, or she may have strained some of her muscles, which : need just this amount of coddling, i At all events the bath at this junc- i " ! ture is a good thing. I 1 j The slender woman can bathe in any I " ' way she pleases. A water bath fol- I - lowed by massage is a good thing for f her. But her fat sister cannot get into ' j ; ; a tub of water after a violent exercise. lror her there must be a dry mas-I mas-I 1 'sase with rough towels and a sponge bath, not cold by any means, but as hot as she can take it. This is followed by a massage with a strengthening skin food. For a body massage, for tired muscles, mus-cles, there is nothing better than a good camphorated liniment. It should not be strong, like rheumatic liniments, but should be merely flavored with camphor, so to speak. A good formula for this purpose consists con-sists of half a pin, of almond oil, mixed with one-third of the quantity of lard oil. To get the lard oil "try out" the pure fat of the hog in a small frying pan and stir into the almond oil until both are thoroughly mixed. Now add a few drops of spirits of camphor. It is difficult diffi-cult to tell how much camphor to use because of the variation in strength. Every woman will probably know for herself. If the camphor is added out of the family camphor bottle, then about two tablespoons might be right. If; it is taken to the druggist to be camphorated he can tell by the quantity quan-tity of oil how much camphor to put in. It should smell strongly of camphor. cam-phor. Should a nice massage cream be der sired there ie nothing that is sweeter than clover leaf oil. This is something made by our aunts of a generation ago and a little toilet article which can be prepared cheaply and easily. No toilet table need be without it. This, as made by the southern belles, contained equal parts of sweet oil and mutton fat melted and stirred together. The leaves of sweet clover were stirred in during the making process. Lavender to scent the cream was added and the clover leaves were lifted out. The whole was poured into empty and cleaned cocoanut shells, lined with clover leaves. If the cream was to be kept for any length of time it was .put into jar3 and sealed. This made an excellent massage cream for stiffened joints; and if the belle of other days had a bicycle, or golfed, or played at ping pong, or exercised exer-cised as the belle of today does, she would doubtless have used it to limber up her joints. As it was, it was a medicine to be applied for sprained wrists after horseback riding and for a stiff neck and slight bodily ills. To the readers who have asked for creams, the above may be applicable. There are other and daintier creams, but they are more expensive. I A PLEASING VOICE. A pleasing voice is one of the greatest great-est feminine iharms: The voice, let it be remembered, does more to characterize char-acterize a woman favorably, or unfavorably, unfa-vorably, than anything else. How beautiful are those lines of Shakespeare Shake-speare where he says: "Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low an excellent thing in woman." Harsh, uncharitable uncharita-ble thoughts lend discordant tones to the speech and kind, unselfish thoughts impart a natural euphony. The voice unconsciously portrays the loveliness, or unloveliness. of our lives. Thus the necessity Sf cultivating high ideals and generous qualities. Beauty must commence com-mence way down deep in a woman's heart in order to give her a charming personality. Nothing could possibly be more vulgar than affectation in speech. Never cultivate someone else's voice, however; desirable it may seta. Cultivate yoyr own instead. Endeavor Endeav-or to acquire well modulated tones and an easy, correct use of language. Ifhus you will keep your own individuality, which, when beautified, will exercise more charm over your speech than any amount ; of imitation, however cleyer. |
