BEAUTY AND THE BROOM
A lady went to a physical culture expert because she feared that she was becoming too fat. He gave her an elaborate chart and taught her a series of simple stretching and bending exercises, for which he charged her sgns. She went home happy, resolving to rise five minutes earlier in the morning in order to practice her exercises. In the evening she told her husband of her visit and showed him the chart, rehearsing for his benefit some of her exercises. “But my dear," he said, after watching for some minutes "while she did a sidewaysbend movement, “your movements at the moment are just the ordinary movements of sweeping a floor. Why not do some of your own housework?” Brutal, perhaps . . . ! A broom is a fine thing for physical culture, provided it is handled with grace and vigour, while the woman who is afraid of gaining weight cannot do better than go down on her knees and polish a floor. All housework is good when it does not involve breathing up too much dust; and when Beauty sees to it that the windows are open while she is busy with her dusting and polishing, she need have no fear of the effect on - either her health or her appearance! B.D.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 21
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215BEAUTY AND THE BROOM Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 21
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