HOW TO BE GRACEFUL.
<me recipe lor seeming a graceful appearance may be summed tip in the words "Learn to sit up properly and learn to walk properly." If your arms hang down let them hang naturally. Do not swing them, and do not pin them tight to your sides. When you walk try to get a good glimpse of yourself. Do not gaze at your feet, and do not move as if you were studying the pavement, but look tin. Rest the back of the head as you walk. Do not throw your head forward but dip it back, for that will bring your chin up, do away with a double chin tendency, and give you the correct poise. Walk with dignity, do not loiter, do not hurry. Choose the dignified medium. Always square your shoulders. When sitting, sit squarely, so that the body is well supported. Unless a person sit 111 the correct position, constant sitting is apt to give a peculiarly ungraceful "build'' to those who have a tendency to stoutness, and will quite destroy an upright, graceful carriage. If. when sitting, a person follows the admonition so often given to children to sit up, it will be found that the chut will be lifted, the shoulders thrown back, and the chest raised, and thus the correct poise willbe gained.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13464, 17 April 1907, Page 9
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