THE HOW AND WHY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page VI (Supplement)

THE HOW AND WHY

Useful Hints Has it ever occurred to you:— Which is tlie right way, ami which tin' wrong, to run up stairs? Which of your nostrils gives you the most; air? Whether; physically, you can overcome temper or timidity? How you could make yourself walk greater distances? asks Cyril Dalmaine in the “Sunday Express.” Stairs, for instance. Watch people running up them. ‘“People place halt’ their feet only on tlie stairs, ami sometimes only the toe. Result —to Hie effort of ascent is added I hat of keeping one’s balance. "Place the whole of your foot flat on the steps and you will no longer get out of breath." Walking. "Get; into the habit of walking witii Hie palms of the bauds to the front. When the habit has been acquired you will easily do a dozen miles." Breathing. Fifteen a minute in-and-out breaths is normal for a man—eighteen for a woman. Count and see. And note this —“‘during the morning the afflux of air is a little larger through the left nostril, and in the evening a little larger through the right nostril —that is normal.” Temper. "The instant you feel yourself getting angry, relax your muscles; face, trunk, arms and hands, especially those of Hie hands, as they arc inclined to contract: for the lists to be clenched. A Hi of temper is incompatible with relaxed muscles.”

Exactly the same rules apply io timidity—relax the muscles, especially of the face, before entering a room full of strangers ami you will feel your self-confldense retumiug, .