MAKING LITTLE WOMEN-TALL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 May 1914, Page 8

MAKING LITTLE WOMEN-TALL.

■ QUEEN MARY'S FAVOURITE I EXERCISES. t " Many of my lady pupils are fond of the Queen Mary exercises which . are for making the figure symmetrical." A woman physical-culture teacher of London asserts that they are the exercises which the Queen takes every day. ' " Fold your arms behind your back and walk around the room. Try to walk around a central object, such as a table, in order 1 that you may not shirk the distance. Walk for twenty ' minutes, when you will have covered a mile, with your arms behind your back. " Put your finger-tips on the etooulder seams of your gown. Walk half a mile with your fingers resting on your shoulders, and with your elbows ! tossed back. " Pra tiee high-stepping. Thi« exercise is said to be a favourite with Queen IVfary. At first her phj.-sical-culture teacher was afraid to recommend it to b--n\ "Rnt gi-,^ re _ sted an exerc se for a graceful walk. " I am afraid you will not approve, your Majesty,' objected the physical-culture teacher. rltis a high-stepping walk.* The Queen laughed. "-I imagine I am getting cred+fc for being a stuffy sort of person," she returned. ■ But I am sure I • could not object to an exercise that would develop the figure if one hatf not the time to walk.' " The exercise does for a woman in ten minutes what she could hard- • ly accomplish in less than two hours v she were to go for a tramp. It can be taken in one's house as well aa in a gymnasium. " The foot i,s lifted with each step until it is on a level with the knee. The heel should be lifted btraig-ht aj and the knee should be well bent. The motion is as though one were going to step up a very high stair This is the best exercise for makinc the figure grow. "If one perseveres one ought to bSF"** able to add to the height at the X rate of a quarter of an inch a month until one had added three-quarters of an mch m three months. There I have been cases i n which a whole ; mch was added ; but these are no , longer considered good."