TOILET HINTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14853, 2 December 1911, Page 6 (Supplement)

TOILET HINTS.

A GOOD ' CARRIAGE.

We all sigh for beauty, at least if -wo are women, and somewhat young at that. It takes the passing of, the years, and no little experience to teach us , that beauty is a snare, not only to the observer, but also to its possessor. A * glance - back at history tells us of many women celebrated for .their beauty, but none of them had happy lives; or, if happiness and peace wero theirs, they were very much the exception. Tel! these fact's to, the young woman, however, and it is ten chances to one that she will avow herself ready to have risked the mischance if she had been dowered with beauty. And yet with this feeling in the heart of most women it is strange, they will not put, themselves out to make the best of what they have got. All of them would be "daughters of the gods'divinely tall and most divinely fair," but,they do not take, for instance, tho pains with' the carriage of their bodies that would add several inches to their stature. Many slouch ; others sit or stand in a heap as it were; while again there are those ] who lose height because thoy carry > their heads forward instead kof carrying them high, and proudly withal. If yon want a simple exercise that will teach you tho proper carriage of tho head all you have to do is to ■ put your hands on your hips - first - and draw yourself into a really upright position ; then to place a heavyish hook on your head and to walk with it balanced tbore. This will give you the correct poise of the head, as well as of the whole body, and will enable you to acquire the flte-'udy. yet free, movement which women of the East have, and which artists and lovers of grace praise so much. This comes to many of the Easterns throucrh the custom of carrying water pot« balanced on their shoulders or heads, and though wo hare no need to do this lowly yet beneficial labour, yet we shall gain if we learn tho poise they possess, and thus give ourselves the .benefit of each inch we possess, and credit for some we don't really hare.