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Show i PLAV TENNIS 1 AND BE 1 BEAUTIFUL Sil BY EDNA EGAN. '' firTil VEN the sraa11 Sirl not out of 9 a la pinafores was a victim of the M I t3j feeling -which prevailed at one 3& time that physical weakness Iff 'j as somehow synonymous with phys-E phys-E ! jcal beauty in women. It was not her U happy privilego to go swlmmnig and r' v camping, to climb fences and trees 1 aDd to share in her brother's rough ' outdoor games. She must sit in the r i' bouse, playing with dolls and sewing ' I ; patchwork, and, as a young lady of ji( , flfty years ago, croquet and archery ( ) werc the only athletic (?) pastimes r j permitted to .her. No wonder she was i called the weaker sex! f Kow we have changed all that. Many 5 '? ffomen who alternate between the A i gymnasium and the tennis court are S ;t jiving denials of the theory that train-M train-M I ed, strong muscles are incompatible w ffi'n, womanly beauty and grace And, w 3J i have said before, the stout woman M I $h her masBcs and rolls of surplus H flesh Is the flabbily muscled woman. m ) I do not think she is generally held to n I b beautiful anywhere outsldo of a 9 Mahometan paradise. ji i There is scarcely a muscle in the '; body that tennis does not exercise and i strengthen. The racquet, even if it is H $ a light one. keeps the arm muscles in M i play. The constant running over the I I court, particularly if you play singles, I ' develops the legs even better than 1 i walking Furthermore, In BOrving and returning the ball, all the trunk mus-roi mus-roi I cles are brought Into action. There Br is constant bending to return the low j balls, which ministers To the supple- 5 ' ncss of the joints. 5. ',' What puts on muscle takes off Iiesh. I J The tennis racquet serves to develop ? the muscles in shoulders, arms and 7 upper torso. And the bending move-") move-") ments from the hips and walBt, the 6 i kicking movements with the legs, are " nearly all of them called into play in B tennis. - Perspiration is of great assistance '. in melting off the fattcy tissues. Two or three hours of tennis in the hot m ' sun should have nearly the sweating $ ; eflect of a hot bath and a nap under i j warm covers, and, if you have any Jj j fondness for sports, should prove in- finitely more enjoyable. If you are not 2 ' accustomed to playing, don't overdo it .? 'the first blazing afternoon you appear I on the court, and always wear a shade 1 bat to protect your eyes and skin. But j the more you play the more pounds i you will take off. - The beautiful lines and contours of a woman's figure are formed only by muscles in a state of rest. There is a wide-spread but mistaken notion that muscles are hard, knotty substances, sub-stances, and are the fitting develop-j develop-j 'ment of no one except tho professlon- al male athlete. This is a mistake. , In the statues that have come down tn us from antiquity and that are gen- i etallv accepted as ideal personiflca- i tlons of beauty, it is tho muscles and I nothing but the muscles that form the beautiful rounded arms, hips and shoulders, the carefully modelled waists The surface layer of fat is 1 exceedingly thin, and is distributed so i evenly that the form itself is in no way J . modified. The skeleton shows itself too proml-,, proml-,, nentlv if there are not enough raus- i cles; even if the form is obese it con-i con-i veyB a certain impression of flatness and therefore of ugly angularity. Tho j fat is arbitrarily disposed, in lumps, j hillocks and bulging rolls, and if a tight corset is worn the reduction Qf ! the measurements at ono point is 1 overbalanced by tho unpleasant pro-; pro-; tuberance above and below. |
