Fashions and Furbelows

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18188, 22 June 1927, Page 12

Fashions and Furbelows

NOTES BY SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS.

TOWEL DRIIL.

Very great benefit will result from this drill. The exercises need only take up a few minutes night and morning. i Before using the towel for any of these simple exercises, fold it over in i three lengthwise folds. It is best to j use a thick, but not too rough, towel _ When there is a tendency to a double j chin, try this exercise. Hold the towel j one end in each hand, and then raise i the arms until the middle of the materi!al is right under the chin. Now draw Jit firmly backwards and forwards 1 across the chin, all the time keeping the head well up. I Arms that are too fat and somewhat j shapeless may be enormously- improved by this tuwcl exercise. Loop the towel round the arm where reduction is required, then, grasping both ends with ! the free hand, pass it firmly tip and down. , In these days of shingled heads, the i back of the neck is important. Draw the towel rapidly backwards and fori wards against the nape of the neck . while the head is kept well up. ; This next towel exercise "iU be found to be useful where fat forms just ; above the corselet. Grasp the towel, ; as described in the former movements, and then draw it rajvJ-b* - across the

front above the abdomen and up and down from the lower chest to the abdomen. The figure must be kept very erect whilst the exercise is practised.