HOW TO STAND

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 25

HOW TO STAND

You can make or mar your figure yourself. D not lay all the blame at Nature’s door, for ic s more your own fault than hers that you are not a good figure, be it of the stout or slim order. The minute a woman stands lightly on her feet, with knees straight, chert well out,' stomach flat, shoulders back, and the body from waist up tilting ever so lightly forward, she has acquired at once a certain smartness of effect that no amount of beauty or fine cloches could give. .the smart girl is never round-shoulder-ed or hollow-chested, and by standing properly she breaches properly. E : very full, deep breath she draws straightens the muscles of her sides and abdomen. She is bound not to grow into a fat, ungainly woman, who can never catch her breath or a train, for a proper poise of the body means good digestion and good health.

How many 'women sink into a little heap the'minute they sit down —shoulders drooping, chest sunken, the whole weight of the Docly thrown on the end of the spine. The smart girl sits in the same erect, alert way that she stands, and if she wishes to rest she leans back against her shoulders, and not the middle of her back.

In bending, whether at a desk, or a dishpan, or a dinner-table, she bends from her waist, not from her shoulders, and she not only looks well, but avoids fatigue and the actual injuries that come from any strain on misplaced muscles.