STREAMLINED FIGURES

Southland Times, Issue 23332, 16 October 1937, Page 16

STREAMLINED FIGURES

(By DONALD LOOMIS)

Jean Chatbum illustrates an exercise for the development of pretty arms and softly curved shoulders. Lie face down on the floor, tips of toes touching ground, palms pressed flat against floor. Raise the body on toes and palms until you are stretched up as far as you can reach in this position, then lower yourself to the floor. This exercise is excellent for correcting posture faults and to get rid of round shoulders. Joan Crawford, who has perhaps the most beautiful shoulders on the screen, is partial to this, and I have frequently seen thin girls with bony shoulders develop beauty in this fashion. Very few girls eat properly, keep the right hours, drink enough water or take care of themselves as they should do.

A girl will smoke a whole package of cigarettes, drink six or eight cups of coffee, eat too many sweets and stay out till all hours night after night. “Oh, why worry?” she scoffs. “Look at me—l’m all right—so what does it matter?”

She may get away with it for a while, but the time will come when she will find she can’t shake off a cold, she has headaches, she is nervous and irritable, she can’t sleep and at length she has a breakdown. The better care she takes of herself today, the longer her beauty will last. Eleanor Powell is one young star who has never smoked, and she tells me she has no desire for a cigarette.

Arms and Shoulders

If you learn to live intelligently, you will have no desire to smoke and no need for a stimulant. No matter what they tell you about cigarettes* they are bad for you if you are eager to be beautiful—they are a drug and youth especially should stay away from them.

Personally, I should like to keep girls away from coffee entirely, but most of the stars who come to me are used to drinking it, and I find it necessary to permit them a cup or—at most—two cups a day. Most people don’t drink enough water. Six or eight glasses of water a day is necessary to health. Water is commonplace, so people don’t think of using it I know girls who never dream of drinking more than one glassful a day. Beauty is more than skin deep. It comes from the inside and health is its foundation. Today you can’t tell by looking at a girl whether she is actually healthy or not. She wears false eyelashes, she puts drops in her eyes to make them bright, she uses rouge, and lipstick and has her hair waved. But these aids are temporary. Real beauty comes from clean internal organs, and water helps to keep them clean.