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Show i "And they were gently emphatic about the chest at all limes, but e.eeinlly when , administering staircase advice. They insisted that if the 'best were thrown sufficiently far forward the shoulders and elbows would take care of themselves, them-selves, ltut, as much as possible, they avoided mentioning the bauds, because they did not w ish their girls to worry j about w hut to do with those extremities j and they were convinced that as soon "s a girl hail learned to ascend and descend de-scend stairs properly she would be so perfectly st ease that her hands would never be in her way. TWO PIECE WRITING SETS. TWO piece writing sets, consisting of a large sized combination blotting and memorandum book and a enpneious flat stationery box eliwde-d into compartments compart-ments for correspondence paper, hasty note cards and telegram bluuks are of suede, morocco, alligator, lizard, sen! and pig skiu, with or without tooled gold borders bor-ders and other decorations. To match tlm t.hr scheme of a library, morning or guest room the.se dainty and useful writing nets are covered with mono, snilu, brocade or printed chintz, nud if a pirl bus mastered the art of neatly covering cover-ing boxes anil books she may make them according to her fancy. An artistic et covered with natural colored col-ored chamois rujlit have a hand tooled! cold border and a I. icelike lattice di-ne iu uld paint, aud one of hunter's green cord-! cd silk could be tooled and widely bordered bor-dered with a florul on tlrerian design iiij silver, bioiixo or braes colored painL If something h-xs eluU'rate is dcslrndj the book and box might be of cartridge or ennnicl,.fj plain wall paper, which with-l stands considerable usage, and dor-orated cu lid nnd cover with a hand Dainted ini- tial, monogram or proverb. j j "They devoted a great dr-ul of atton-tien atton-tien to the manner of handling the feet, because those extremities not only sup-iPOrt, sup-iPOrt, but pro pi I, the body. Instead of j lightly tripping up and dowu stairs by excre ising I lie uh-h and the insteps nenr-ly nenr-ly every new pupil showed n tendency to use the entire foot, invariably coming ;down Hutly up..!! the heel. That 18 precisely pre-cisely where the weight should not fall," iwurued the April i Ira udruother, ' 'as to jar the spine may result in chronic backache, back-ache, If not really serious nervous trouble. "Moreover, the habit of tripping lightly up and down .stairs b-nd, lightne-s to the general gait and prevents the girl who has not athletic tustes froui adopting those slow, hcay movements which belong be-long to the middle aged woiimn who carelessly care-lessly permits her figure to become uu-wieldy. uu-wieldy. Elevators and m lug staircases nre a boon t0 the lame and the layy. but they will never aid a girl to acquire physical grace." |