HOW HINDOO GIRLS ARE MADE PRETTY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5408, 27 July 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOW HINDOO GIRLS ARE MADE PRETTY.

The Hindoo girls are graceful and exquisitely formed. From their earliest childhood they aro accustomed to cany burdens on their heads. The water for family use is always brought by the girls in earthern jars carefully poi*ecUn this way. This exorcise is said to strengthen the muscles of the back, while the chest is thrown forward, No crooked backs are seen in Hiudoatau. Dr. Henry Spry, one of the company's medical officers, says that "this exercise of carrying small vessels of water on the head might be advantageously introduced into our boarding schools and private families, and that it might entirely supersede the present machinery of dumbbells, blackboards, skipping ropes, &c. The young lady ought to be taught to carry the jar as these Hindoo women do without over touching it with her hands. The same practice of carrying water leads to precisely the same results in the south of Spain and in the south of Italy ns in India. A

Neapolitan female peasant will carry on her head a vessel full of water to the very-brim over a rough _ road and not spill a drop of it; and the acquisition of this art or knack gives her the same erect and elastic gait,- and the same expanded chest and well-formed back and shoulders. -