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Show I U PRACTICAL TALKS BY THeWI Hi APRIL GRANDMOTHER H help to make the figure slender and the movements graceful, but they si-eill to brighten the expression of the face. Practically Prac-tically the Maine results may be accoiu-pllslusl accoiu-pllslusl by playing at hunting with a poa-, poa-, loaded .shotgun and anv dog which has tho instinct to raise a flock of partridges or chase a squirrel Thus the seeker after slimness may teach the pretty forest creatures crea-tures lo be wnry of gllliS give the dog no end of harmless sjMirt and herself the heuefit of the fresh air as well as greatly improve the digestion and eoiiM-iieiiily the complexion. "(nee a girl has workc.) e "m desired amount of th sh. she may keep it In abeyance abey-ance by means of .simple exorcises, which may be practised at any cnvi I'ient ino-jmeiit. ino-jmeiit. There is the aeroplane da nee, which seems to call every muscle into play and to lie really hard work idealized with music Then. too. she should always trip jiery rapidly up stairs and without once 'pausing for breath, put on her shoes while silling on a high chair, so that she must bend almost double in order to accomplish the lacing of them, and." the April Crand-niother Crand-niother smiled mischievously, "pretend that she Is an infant and try to bite o fiber fi-ber own toes I "No girl who can perfor f"t has .an ounce too much flesh, and so long as 'she continues fo practise it need not fear ito look a fichiug machine If face.", I i A VN'Y a girl whose conscience will I I not permit her to pass a bee-gar bee-gar without bestowing alms t -'lis haughtily from a public weighing machine ma-chine which implores for only a penny," :remarkod the April I iraii.luielher ris she peered through her lorgnetf- nt the fig- iiires indicated by the weight mechanism. "That ijointer" proves that yon are ten ipounds too heavy for your height, and," she u.lded necusin gly , "I think that you must have realiz.sl that fact, because yon were so reluctant to step upon the scales. Yet accurately to know Iho weight Is the only safeguard against oh.-sily, which Is lone of the sins on your gr ndT f her's side of the family. It is the easiesr thing in the world to acquire n few extra 'lounds, but a vexation to the i-pirit to rid one's self of them, and that U why n youns girl who is inclined to curves rather than to angles should be weighed at hast once each week. "On the contrary , I do not wish you to half starve yourself," Mini the April tirandinoth-T in replv to :. doleful remark of her plump young .descendant. "Semi-tflarvatinij "Semi-tflarvatinij is one of the get-fhiu-tuick methods which hurry young girls into dyspepsia; dys-pepsia; nor is there an easier wsy of robbing rob-bing the face of Its jontbful beuuty. Th.it penalty I" not worth the price of a hipless figure, although I have nothing to ay against a straight up and down shape, provld.sd it can be acquired by i.ygienie meaas. "A girl whoso figure is generously curvisl should go in for mountain cliinh-liug cliinh-liug lu some region where t.j walk at all is hard work. A three-mile rumble over la trail which wind up and down the 'sides of a canyon aud In pla.-e.s so srerp that one must- cling for support to the shrubbery will take off more utoh tbun will a ten-mile walk over au ordinarily ruooLh road. After the hrst week of this sort of en-roue the hips will be several inches smaller, and in ten .lays' tin,,, n. waist bands will have lo be taken In. "Heavy shoulders and fat arms are, in ujy opinion, far more objectionable thnu are largo Lips." continued the April 1 Grandmother, "and for thut sort of bulk 1 the best reducing exeroses are archery snd fencing both these sports not only |