The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1903, Page 15

: ed Je A Course of Home Calisthenics for Obesity, with No Other Ap- paratus than a Chair-Back, i | v N THD SPRING, while a young man’s fancy is popularly supposed to be ‘turning lightly to thoughts of love, a young maid is often facing the sober fact that her loveliness is not all she had fancied it. Spring is a@ favorable season for taking stock, as it were, of ose's possessions in the way of good looks; for making a careful inventory; for repairing what is damaged; for getting rid of everything superfluous; for adding all that is needed. And since woman Is universally known as a bargain-hunter I want to whisper this bit of a secret. Spring is the very best time for getting beauty |other bread-winners—the joy of working for loved ones at home—was lack- at a bargain—for securing a good quality of the article at the most mod-|ing in my case. I was the sole survivor of my immediate family, my home @rate cost. was broken up, I had only myself to care for and only myself to care for The whole universe is waking up and throwing off and putting on—re-|me. So from the very first I started out wrong by being decidedly and self- creating itself. So in this beautiful first month of this beautiful spring I/Ishly self-centred. intend to help the readers of The Evening World to learn how'each one may make herself over and become just as beautiful as is possible. Ever since I first made acquaintance many years ago with Evening ‘World readers I have preached physical culture in one form or another, That any of you have practised what I preached your letters are constantly tell- ing me. But for the innumeralbe new readerg, who add themselves daily, mew sermons are continually needed. It has occurred to me that an object lesson would press my text home to each one of your minds more eloquently than anything else. Therefore, I mean to give you in her own words the true story of a young woman who _ @volved her good looks after they had become sadly deteriorated by bad health, bad habits and a general neglecting of herself, This story is true, and its moral may be easily discerned and applied by women whose cases are similar, HOW | EVOLVED INTO A PRETTY WOMAN. The True story of Miss Sarah C, Fuller as Told by Herself to HARRIET HUBBARD AYER, 1 em twenty-six years old and I used.to be considered a very pretty girl. I think I possessed about the average woman's share of health and * vigor and good looks. Five years ago I came to New York to live. It was to be a quiet, worke- @ay sort of life, for 1 was my own bread-winner. average ordinary girl. I found a position without much trouble. My salary was sufficient for all my needs—a comfortable room, as much food end clothing as I wanted, and satisfaction for the weekly claims of my landlady. ‘There was enough money for other things if I had desired them, but instead of reaching out for all the beauty and happiness attainable I shut up heart and mind and body within the narrow walls of self and a monotonous rou- tine of existence, Instead of letting my llfe blossom into the perfect flower of womanhood I allowed myself to vegetate and very nearly to decay. This was the sort of existence I led for four years after coming to New York. because, as it seemed, there was nobody to care, | neglected myself and a: @ consequence lost nearly every claim I once had to good looks, The dull sameness of my round of work wore gradually on my nerves, causes contributed to bring near the much-dreaded foe of insomnia. my home had been journeyed up to New York about this time. their amazed exclamation: these four years? You are twenty-five and you look fifty!” The inspiration of many their neighborly privilege and sald Just what they thought. Ain Exciting Evening. By Z. A. Norris. The Story of a Wife’s Vigil and Its Strange Ending. @eorriaht, 1902, by Daily Story Publishing Co.) widow to whom he bad once been en-) the widow who had declared she would stop its beating. 'T was election night. About 7 o'clock|sased and who had declared he would) win back her husband in less than @ix| A man passed by. Hoe leaned over her. ] whe had received this message from|come back to her in less than six| months of time after his marriage. “What's the matter?” he asiod, thim, together with a package: months from the time he was married.| Deliberately she retraced hee steps,| “Nothing,” she faltered. Janet: I am going to see the| TY ‘had been marned seven months, | then stopped. “Can I do anything for you’ he in- ight with @wann and some of| Of !te his behavior had been strange| No; this was beneath her. No; she | sist the other boys. You know how you be-| #54 Peoullar, Yes, at that very moment| would not watoh him, It was beneath "No, no," abe eald, and he went on shave when I want to go out anywhere, |!t ¥#4 poastbte that he was with her! | her, by. Fivishing her dinner hastily, she went) But if he were there she had a right’ Ghe never knew how long wat past the tall walter, rendered momen-|to know. there fooking up at the window, the soul tarlly servile by her tip, on out, glad] She found hersex sobbing as shelin her aching, cold to the heart; but af- to be out and in the fresh air again.|watked along; but walking, nevertheless, |ter a time a woman came to the middle But fhe fresh air was ez hideous as the| apparently in spite of heceetf, led on! window of the three and threw up the Interior, so loud was tt with horns. and on by the Irresistible impulse to| sash. Mechanically #he ascended to the eles; solve the problem for once and all if it} She leaned out and Jooked vp and down vated station, bought her ticket and| wrecked her life (o know, hating her-/the street, this way and that. stood on the platform, self for this act of spying and yet all] Janet drow further into the doorway. As she buttoned her cloak close about| her nature throbbing in the one impulse] ‘The Woman turned into the room, The ther throat to protect the delicate lining | to know. shadows revealod her giving him his hat from the smoke and toarded a grimy| She stood by and by across from the|'The two shadows swung together for a car, she thought how fortunate a thing) building of flats and dooked up. On the)space, her head on bis shoulder, hie it wes that election night came omy|fourth floor, Mrs. Donnelly's flat, the) bending forward in the ies of farewell. once @ year. row of windows blaged alight and a|Janet's breath oame hard. Her mouth The car passed through fireworks and | shadow rested on the white of the down-|was dry. Her heart, she thought, would shouts which diminished, fortunately, as) drawn lind, @ head the shape of hiy,! break. it rounded the curve and ewung up Co-| with the forefinger of his delicate hand! A moment lator the woman again came dumbus avenue, against his cheek to the window. Then, after a little whbi Presently the volce of the conduptor| Boon be rose and ran across the room|s man opened the hall door below, came broke in upon her reverie. Bhe sprang|to the corner, where she could see only|out and deow It to behind him, vp with @ start, One Hundred and| his elbow. He crossed the etreet and Janot, whit Fourth etrost, and three stations past| There was a divan in that corner then, | tear-stained and big-eyed, rose and fa: her own! The widow evidently sat there, Ho had) him Bhe hurried out, down the steps ana | run across to her, Soe clasped her hands together and Across the street to board the downtown! Janet c'ayped her hand to her mouth|broke Into a little hysterical ery o| r~ to resurain a ory. He had run across|prise and delight, the room te apother woman, Her tus-| Will had told her the truth.* * * He ‘wae downtown looking at the freworks, ewaitiog the returas; and this was « wtrangert =. whey had) Tem sending you this note and some ‘with which to amuse your- will be sonfewhere in the ‘Madison Gquare or Thirty- t if you should happen to ‘With love, your WILL, im order to get at the mean- een the lines. Then she laid commenced to dress for on @ Olack velvet skirt, ‘waist, = velvet Bat with and a black velvet cloaic ing of white silk, Al- I took no regular exercise, I paid no attention to diet or hygiene and My inactive habits developed an unbecoming surplus of flesh, and various, @ Valuable diet for Me itdten: It happened that some of my old neighbors from the far-off State where They met me one day, and the shock of surprise I saw in their faces prepared me for| ———___— “What have you been doing to yourself during METROPOLITAN OPERA - ~ HOU SE That was not a very polite greeting, but my old neighbors exercised | LESSON 1.--- Simple Rules for Reducing Flesh: them egain. sing me. known me all my life and their interest In my welfare was genuine. But what they said set me to thinking, and the vanity latent in every woman began to find expression. If my good looks were lost I must find The search might maybe prove interesting. And almost any sort of interest in life would be better than‘the dull {istlessness then posses- So I etarted out in a common sense way on my Deauty quest. I dis- dained no helps I found along that way. individual case, and after faithful experimenting 1 grew wise enough to decide for myself which beauty methods I might safely follow end which would only prove worthless. It is at Mrs. Ayer’s suggestion that I am tell- ing the story of my quest. The very first thing I discovered was thdt exercise is positively essential for the preserving or the restoring of good looks. Through lack of exercise I had taken on too much flesh, and too much flesh, as every woman knows, ig fatal to womanly beauty. I began my health and beauty exercise from this starting point: reducing my avordupois. A fulness in the abdominal flesh I discovered to be my tendency. The ex- ercises I finally settled upon for reducing this were the simple ones shown in In order to practise them easily loose clothing must be worn. No epparatus of any sort {s necessary. A wooden chair back was the illustrations, Mterally my only health lift. One of my exercises was to bend far over from the hips and touch my fingers to the floor, and then bend backward as far as possible. movements are very “strenuous,” I adapted each one to my own These however, and I soon found that they called My. education bad been thorough, my talents were ebout those af the for considerable exertion had physical strength, The strain on other parts , or of the body is too great for this: exercise to-be indulged in longrat-@ @ima It 1s wise, I discovered, to discontinue it at the first symptoms of fatigue. Another of my fiesh-reducing exercises was to stand with Doth feet pressing the floor firmly and both hands grasping with » vigorous grip the back of an ordinary wooden chair. Bending forward from the hips and keeping: the knees perfectly rigid, I would gradually raise myself on tiptos with the weight of my body over the chair ‘back. Reversing this motion, the tense muscles would relax and the former position be regained by slow easy degrees. This exercise heiped:me wonderfully, aa it developed enerey and latent vigor while doing away with the soperennoden’ Seatien flesh. My legs had grown stout and nearly shape! I made them and tapering by the the chair and from the into graceful shape, I shall be glad to auswer any letters of inquiry concerzing the exercises described im these lessons. THE MOST NUTRITIOUS, Amusements, Amusements. An admirable food, with all Bul its natural qualities intact, | fitted to build up and maintain EPPS’S Gives Strength and Vigour. COCOA |robust health, and to ronitt winter's extreme cold. It ‘Oh GRATEFUL-—COMFORTING, ES = R Arnusements. Heasou 1904-1903. Uni der tas Mr, Maurice Cran. 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