Beauty of figure : how to acquire and retain it by means of easy and practical home exercises / by Deborah Primrose.

  • Primrose, Deborah.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Beauty of figure : how to acquire and retain it by means of easy and practical home exercises / by Deborah Primrose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE FIRST EXERCISE On our entry into this world the first thing we do is to take a breath, one that usually makes us cry, too ; and similarly, the first exercise we have to master when we seriously begin our course of physical culture is to take a breath, not automatically and carelessly as we usually do, but properly through the nostrils. By and by, when we have worked at it for some weeks, the correct method will become automatic, and the enormous benefit of this exercise to women and children with narrow chests, delicate throats, and rounded shoulders will be thoroughly appreciated after a careful look at the figure in my first illustration, which clearly demon- strates how the chest expands and the back straightens as the child slowly draws in and holds her breath. For the stout woman, too, the value of proper