THE DAILY DOZEN.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20258, 29 July 1937, Page 5

THE DAILY DOZEN.

EXERCISE AND SLIMNESS. Slimness in maidens seems so natural a thing to an older generation in whom curves were appreciate.! that it, is taken tor granted as having come into being of its own accord, states an exchange. While it. is true | that less stuffy food is eaten and that break last, is nowadays at a discount, it |is id.l aiwa> s realised that the slim-

f mest of maidens work very hard in- > deed at their figures and that it is not I entirely based on orange juice. Diet ■ counts, and self-denial is exercised in j the interest of vanity, toil every form of exercise is added lo Ibis, ranging from squash to pedalling willi Ihc feet in the air. Series of gramophone exercises aid many people to keep up what is a rather arduous habit and one which, like piano practice, to miss is to court disaster. 11 is of no use merely to get through the daily dozen. Heart and soul have lo be behind them so that when muscles are stretched and superfluous f.d is In be 0 removed it can be done with the ulmost thoroughness. n Ballet Exercises. Many people, therefore, who simply I cannot hear merely lo lit l on their I backs day after day and endeavour to . rise without lifting their heels take to ! - tho more strenuous forms of dancing, j do ballet exercises which really mean ! 0 work, or tap-dancing, which also is calculated to keep the ligure trim ! ballet exercises lake hold of those muscles and sinews al the backs of : the legs and persecute them into do- , ing something of what they are (old. 1 . The really exercised person should be ' able lo sit on the ground willi her j ; l legs straight old and to touch her ! ’• knee with her forehead without raising! II that knee one iota from Hie ground. I 11 There are those wlm can do il : more wlm llml il impossible until they have l - wn resistance by standing,,] 1 placing one leg on the hack of a chair, j and then bending t heir foreheads lo ! I* it. These are much more exciting j !. Hum Ihe usual exercises, and many | - ' ness of I lie flesh lo prevent a greater j weariness of the spirit.