The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1902, Page 8

902, by §. §. McCl MONCRIEFF iful she m he must com- nile ered be beat slways serene mence the day with a = of leavin, re putting efore put- ositively rude to her kind r a what may be called to ap Most every one considers she slete when mbbells, dressed her vet no woman »nd the threshold coaxed a in her mir- ¥ cannot exist to- ‘I never once , a fit of th she cries, springing erec T w, luxurious divan on which she is lounging, “let me show you d. Observe now my expression,” and she lets the lines of and mouth presents a o let my mus- w a little and, wear- a week Jines will Y ks to sag agoit. 1lders go forward,.and in & A fortnight of me- s forever,"” o quote someé onc, we'll say it's Homer rned, rich, famous or be radiant and beautiful health and life, to be a pleasing to behold. If the ody will be healthy smoother, plans car- mind and things wi e e i e e TO DEVELOP THE BUST. t that comes from one oed by man a good bu as puzzled all « of Venus, of us that sne unded that none hout loving her. a good form may be very sne who is ill-shapen, but glow do you cely formed. ted wo- s of the dec: ot admire were properly shaped. wor t the flat-busted wo- man does not obtain shape. She may with artifice, but this e. S0 very sarent that it Th you even do somet a deceives no one. Practice Singing. A certain opera singer who was narrow in the chest rubbed each night a handful of cocoa oil into her flesh. The massage, the ofl and the exercise did the work. Usually the exercise of singing wiil round out the chest and vocalism is one of the surest ways to get a full bust. Sing- ers are v always fat in the bust, and this is attributed to vocal exercises, and for those who practice ed, for But all cannot sing cantiot sing There must be the bust must The flat never prett plea methods one feature that is contramy to the set something that the round full bust is a beautiful portion of the chest that is wel well iitted gown one’s anatomy, and rounded, under a a thing to bring envy to the sould of the woman who lacks it “If 1 were pe ¥ flat in the chest and woman,” wrote an old beauty scribe, in & now wacicat book published at the very THE SUNDAY CALL. ry out and everything one touches suc- ceeds. “How do I manage it,"you ask, to keep the corners of tny mouth turned up?” “Regardless of the mood that may pos , when I get up in the morn- ing, 1 first ‘devitalize’ my face; that is, st out the unlovelv expression in »n, by encouraging a sens droop throughout the feature: lips, chin and lids may sag , while the mind is, as far as pos- a blank After ‘sozzling’ in this of relaxation for a few momen sing mental pletu and then allow a little smile, rippling over the faes. from opening eyes und parting lips, to gradually bring the fea- tures into place and expressi If one i= afflicted with obstinate fa tion or melancholy, this operation should be repeated geveral times. I have kncwn it to work wonders in most unpre I summon up a ple dejec- cases.” Just try turning up the corners of the mouth, regardless of your mood, and see how it makes you feel Then draw the corners of your mouth down, and vou will declare that there is something in it, and is it not worth an effort to chan, frowns and sullenness and de- spondency for smiles and contentment a happy heart? oottt @ of the pineteenth century, would never stop exercising with my until I had filled out.” beginnin, Massage, with the em of rubbing in the oils and ointments, was unknown in those days, but the old beauty culturist knew that in exercise lay muscle, and he sought to build up the bust by muscular exercise and in no other way We, of better/day and generation, com- bine the two—exercise and massage. And we also combine medication and diet in one harmonious whole, which, taken al- together, will give a good bust As the Goddess of Liberty. Take the pose which is called by tne phy: culturists “the Goddess of Lib- erty pose.”” A weight is taken in the hand and the arm is stretched to the lim- it above the head, precisely as Miss Lib- erty holds the torch down New York har- bor. The weight is lowered®and lifted again until the arm feels fatigued. Then the subject rests. Semething has been done toward bust development. Another rcise is that of stretching the arm out at the gide, a very fatiguing motion. A weight is held in the hand, and possibly 1n Lue ..o 15 This strength- ens the wrists at the same time, for where the bust is undeveloped the arms and wrists will generally be found flabby, if not actually lean. This motion of lifting the welght and thrusting it out at one side is a good one, and can be practiccd one arm and then with the other, with a hand resting on one hip to steady it. Sandow's 1ift, A very fine movement for broadening the chest is found in the arm and neck The hands are clasped behind This is called SN TERN AL the head and the head is thrown back- ward. The elbows are directly out and lifted squarely at each side. It is a stretching mevement, and exercises every muscle there is in the chest. The Oil Bath. Now comes the time for the massage. With quick hands an attendant goes over the skin lightly with a soft towel, and then Begins upon the rubbing movement. The hand is filled with oil, sweet, olive, cocoa ofl, or a nifxtire of melted wax and sweet ofl, making a cold cream. Cold cream i3 very good for this pugpose and nothing could be better than white vase- line, though it is perhaps not so pleas- ant to work with. Have you ever tried melting a little bot- used to be so thin, and you didn't have such an awfully good complexion as you' such a melancholy expression. What has happened?'” “Why, I've been taking the internal laughter cure.’ *‘What in the world i8 that?” world. ‘This is the way of it. You stand up very erect, with toes turned out, and LAUGCHTER hips and shoulders thrown back, and your hands on your hips. When you get ALTHY, It is a sad fact that attractive color- ing and a satiny texture of skin mean infinitely more to the ordinary run of women than do the stories their faces are weaving from “moods and tenses,” and thought habits. And how short-sighted this preference b It seems to be forgotten that as the vears go by the facial architecture alone will remain intact—that the tints must somewhat fade. Let us bear in mind the fact that the face is a fair temple of which we are the builders. The American feminine countenance happily is one that leans toward smiles, and is there not cause for a smiling complacency in the demonstrated facts that; American women are the best- dressed as well as the most independ- ent and probleni-free of all women? To have the right. things on one’s body and the wrong things off one’s mind is certainly to be as happy as it is possible for womankind to be. The internal laughter cure is another way of maging a pretty girl out ot 'a plain one. “Oh, my! is that actually you?” sald a pale, red-haired girl to’a plump, dark- haired one who sat beside her in the streetear. “Yes, it's me,” with a cheerful dis- .chest. regard for srammar. tle of white vaseline, by setting it in het water, and then, while it is fluid, stir- ring in three drops of oil of geranium and a_little pure olive oil, half as much as there is vaseline? Let it cool in a little porcelain lined jar. Or fill your empty bottles of vaseline with it. i A very good massage cream for the bust consists of two ounces of leaf lard, two ountes of olive oil, two arops of attar of roses and erough whitc wax to bring to the consistency of cream. A piece as big as a walnut may be required. This will keep indefinitely. But if you have no cold cream and wish to begin the massage at once, take your vaseline, make it sweet with a lit- tle of vour best cologne, about half a teaspoonful stirred in the melted vaseline, and begin. Rub the chest thoroughlv with the mix- ture, not using strength enotigh to reduce the fat, but rubbing in the rotary manner, power and thereby developing a healthy live long and keep young. The greatest benefactor of the century e got now, and you used to have is that periodical which not long ago opened a smiling contest through its col- umns and offered prizes for smiles. Every one who could make the first semblance of a smile hastened to the Whole days; or even, on and off, for a week, and all gbout trifles. They all cried so beautifully, too—slow crystal tears from reddened eyelids. It was charming photegrapher’s to smile for the contest. 4 Men and women who had forgotten how t's the best tonic' I ever tried, and to smile stood before their mirrors and " the best , complexion . heautifier in the Practiced. Men who met each other on —in & novel. To have emotions may be 53 the street pamsed long enough to say, “Let us smile,” and disappeared behind o rinkies. glass doors. Each contestant smiled for the pure joy of smiling. Giggles and everyday life, for when the spirits are CorRE laughs counted as smiles, and a large serene and buoyant the body is not only & La the right position you part the lips number of smirks and grins, masquerad- " OTRONG Marion Martineau slightly and then laugh internally, and laugh and laugh, as though you were hearing the most amusing thing in the werld, or that you had fallen heir to millions, which would be the most amusing thing in the world, ould it not? Well, you take this cure when you first get up in the morning, the last thing at night, and as often as you can during the day. It will give you & fine appetite and a complexion that is the envy of all the girls—in fact,” she added, Wwith a sly look, “it might make a pretty 8irl of ‘you in two months or less. “Your complexion would begin to clear right away, and the color to come; your hair would stop coming out, and new hair would begin to come in, and even your rival would have to acknowledge that you skowed symptoms of growing good look- ing—if not a positive beauty.” “I will try it and perhaps turn out a raving beauty in no time.” The reason the internal laughter cure improves one’s looks is that it improves the circulation by stimulating it. sending the blood bounding through the veins. This is the benefit of all laughter if hearty enough; it causes deeper inspira- tions, calling into active use every part of the lungs, favoring an Increfise uf lung so that the cream is kneaded in, net witi ferce, but gently. You will be surprised to find how much cream you can rub in, working in this way. You can absorb or rub in a handful in fifteen minutes, for the heat of the hand keeps the cream soft and the skin, with {ts open pores. dries it readily This Is such a necessary part of the bust development that it must never be omitted. While exercise is fine, massage is even finer. If the patient has taken these movements until she is all in a glow she will need an oil bath. Not a water one, you understand, but a real bust bath of ofl, in which a great deal of fat, vegetable and animal, is rubbed into her skin. Let us understand that she has exer- cised until she is all warm, the perspira- tion is just starting out upon the skin and she is tingling from head to foot; and. if she is not used to exercise, she is a littie out of breath. If the skin is oily the grease can be re- moved with a soft cloth. A hot water bath can be taken later, if desired, and there need be no fear that the oil will be drained from the skin. It has been ab- sorbed already by the tissues and soft parts of the flesh. The Diet, Diet comes in for its share in the re- sponsibility in bust development. Unless vou eat the right things you will not make the right amount of progress. You want to be fattened, but you want to be tened in the right place. Eating all you want of one thing is a good way to get fat. Take some one vegetable, some one kind of fruit, some one kind of pudding, or ‘“made dish"; and of a sort if it be easily digested it will be good for you. It will “put fat” on_you. Of course you fear to get fat lest the ing as smiles, were sent in. Every mail brought bunches of smiles. The contest was a gay challenge to pes- simists in general and on a par with the prescription of the doctor who makes a specialty of nervous disorders. To his half a hundred or more melanchaly pa- tients this is the prescription; “Keep the corners of your mouth turned up and you can't feel blue.” The direc- tions for taking are: “Smile—keep on smiling—don’t stop smiling.” (The doc- tor treats his patients to medieine when necessary, but when the case is one of pure melancholy, without bodily iil, he simply recommends the smile cure. He has the patient remain in his office and smile, if it is not the genuine article it must, at least, be an upward curvature of the cormers of the mouth, and the better feelings follow inevitably. It takes considerable patience to Induce some of the patients to apply the cure, and, of course, the greater number of patients are women, for when a man is blue he is bound to be blue, in spite of everything, but a woman Is more easily persuaded to try to find a cure. We must not forget, however, that there is something to be said for crying— it has its uses. and improve your circulation,” is some one's advice, who adds, “tears are positively beneficial.” For one thing, Vhen the chest and breast are lifted by “But you've changed so! Why, you're and expanded the sagging, weeping-wil- _ycu're actually getting pretty. You ,10W lines of the face disappear. There- duce A fore laugh a little every day. Laughand favor of what is known as “a good cry.” But let this good cry be only occasional, once a ye Feminine of fashion, century ago it was different. Heroines<then wept for hours and for the muscular exercise involved the blood pressure to the brain is much re- this would seem to make in r say, or once in two years. rs have rather gonme out or fallen into disfavor. A the fashion, and amusing enough, but they ruin on: ’s good looks. ““No emotions, is an old beauty recipe. Smiles would seem to be preferable for heaithiest but most beautiful, CaccEn Sarpow’y wrong place; instead of above it: in the N of into. the bust; on the and hips, everywhere except the desired. The dread of this keeps a woman in a starving condition. Ste will not eat what she needs But (o such fears one may say begone. 3 will prove to be mere nigatmares, stantiated by the realities of tha vou take the proper exercises, the liftings, the stretchin the bendings and the curvings; if you walk and run in the open air freely, your fat will dispose itseif in the proper spots, just where nature in- terded ‘t should. Can you golf? Do you get an oppor- tunity to play tennis? 1If so, vou will be as beautifully rounded as Venus, as slender in the waist as one of her nymphs, and as full in the thigh as the volup- tuous creatures whose loveliness shat- tered the peace of early Rome. Look at the golf champions! Miss Hecker, Miss Hoyt—and all the rest 1f “you will doubt this, look at some other spec'mens of womanhood. Go where professional models are employed; take a look at the wonderful curves of tho: women whose graces serve as a pattern for statuary; study the curves of the women of the stage, and see if it is im- possible to attain such, No; what woman has done, woman can do. And you may be the first woman of your acquaintance to gain a good figure. Practice steadily for a month, and see how quickly your figure will change. Par- haps there may be some one defect that is not mentioned in your beauty talk. But if there is, you can perhaps study cut the remedy Do not be flat-busted. for it is death to all symmetry of form and to all ce of movement, and, certainly deat to that namelessness which we call