DANCING FOR SLIMNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20076, 13 October 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)

DANCING FOR SLIMNESS.

• IDEAL SUMMER-TIME EXERCISE. Every woman these days religiously, performs daily exercises, oither for tho removal of superfluous flesh, to keep slim, or just " because it's good for one,"'Yet most women find them at times a triflo boring, says an overseas writer. Why not, therefore, substitute dancing ? Even ballroom dancing—that is, ballroom dancing correctly performed —is of immense benefit. For modern ballroom dancing includes many of tho movements to bo found in Swedish drill, only performed in a softer, more graceful way. And it is especially suitable as a summer exercise, since it can bo indulged in when the hottest part of tho day is over. It may bo thought that tho sports-lov-ing woman of to-day already finds sufficient exercise in tho summer, but no sport is beneficial in just the ways that dancing ij. Consider this one point. Ovor-indulgence in sports tends to make one too muscular, ungraceful, and (which«i is, I believe, no longer fashionable) " mas-

euline." Dancing, on the other hand, besides keeping one fit and slim, gives one a good carriage and easy, graceful movements. All who dance regularly and properly find themselves far less easily tired by tennis and other games. Dancing of any kind much improves one's footwork, on which success at many games >so much depends. 1 Those women who have not only to keep slim, but actually to get slim, I would adviso to perforin exercises from operatic and Greek dancing, which (hey would find far more pleasant and interesting than any toe-touching they may already do. If possible, theso exercises should be performed to music. One can find dancing exercises to slenderise almost every part of one's body. Those which include high-kicking and legswinging reduce the hips, as well as teaching one to walk and dance correctly —with an easy swing from tho hip.