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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0839 Enlarge and print image (3M) |
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HROUGH DIET EXERCISE.
adiendocrinologists — goblins—will get you don't watch out. They re Tspsientific physicians who bolish decrepit middle age nd ugliness, by shooting some illions of light rays into one r more of the enodcrine lands—nowadays supposed to be the real power plants of the1 body.
But the radiendocrinologists really only accomplish artificially what the sun does naturally.
So why wait for age, and ^the gentlemen with light rays to accomplish that which you can work out yourself with infinite pleasure? Sunlight is free, while the artificial light costs—well, enough.
There is one great difference between the two jroads to beauty and youth. That is the order in which the process works out.
The artificial light gives youth and then the desire and will to employ exercise and diet as hand-miadens. But, already possessing youth, the desire and will are there for the tapping, and using sunlight, exercise and diet is but the natural outcome of a wish for a better body.
So it would seem that the first requisite in the search for beauty is the interest and the will to do. Work up your interest. Find out the means. And then proceed along that line which best adapts itself to your particular demands.
Sometimes it is not easy to - find the way ,even though will and desire are there. Housewives are apt to let the round of daily duties absorb them. Girls in offices have so little time to themselves that a lone half hour is a pearl nearly withot price. Women in the professions find themselves wrapped in a mesh of circumstance. But if benefit is reckoned against cost it will be a poor logician who cannot see that the time required to gain conservation of the powers that enable on eto go along in the world is the finest of all investments. This is not an argument for the worship of the body to neglect of all duties. Too much attention to Oneself is worse than none at all.
But granting that beauty and health are .desired, and that the will to accomplish this is strong enough to enable,you to pick out a little time for yourself each day, the end can be accomplished.
Remember that ten minutes, half an hour, or better still, ,one hour a day is not too long a time to devote to the search for youth and beauty. An hour a week will show its good results in the years when crow's feet and adipose tissue are trying to gain a hold.
Let's take these handmaid-is in their order.
First and most important is sunshine. True we do not have it every day, but there are many sunshiny days when women spend their time in dark -houses and apartment buildings and thereby deprive themselves of vitality for the physical body and encourage thoughts x>f morbidity.
Get out when the sun shines, even if it is merely to wheel a baby carriage, or hang up clothes, or go to the grocery store, or sweep the front walk, or chase a truant child, or journey to a card game or a department store. If the sun shines, walk in it. Sit still in it. If you can, uncover your body and bask in it.
And while in the sunshine, think about it. Yet, think about it and what it is doing for you. Don't carry carry your unwashed dishes and mussed bureau drawers and unanswered letters with you. Leave them behind. Let the sunshine get into your brain just as surely as you let it enter your body. Meaningless prayers mumbled in a sort of chronic distraction never reach their destination. And even God's sunshine cannot pierce the shadows of the dark corners of a cluttered and worried brain; although it can soothe tired nerves and point the way to mental poise.
Best of all, of course, is the
privilege of being able to have sunshine, and exercise and fresh air all at once. Golf, tennis, out door swimming, out door basket ball, hockey and cross country walking are only a few of nature's most efficient radiendocrinologists The woman who can indulge in them and does not, is throw-in gaway youth with one hand and gathering ugly old age with the other.
Next comes diet. Enough material has been written on this subject to fill a book seven and six fifteenths larger than the world. Or something to that effect.' A few simple rules are sufficient. Every one who is normal, should eat fruit and green vegetables, and fish. And no white bread. You who wish to be thin should avoid butter, potatoes, macaroni ,rice, anything containing starch. And incidently you shouldn't sleep too much. No naps. Sensible hours. No rich desserts and candy. You who-wish to be fat should eat what you please, but you should avoid foods which seem harmful and upsetting. You might try eating very regularly, four or five times a day. Never put a full meal into a tired stomach. A good schedule is breakfast at eight, milk or fruit, or any tid bit at eleven, luncheon at one, tea at four, dinner at six. If only a bite of dinner is desired, eat that bite, then take nourishment before going to bed.
Remember that even adi-nosaur with a tin stomach could not have endured the overfeeding that you practice when you put a rich dessert into a stomach already overloaded with a full meal.
And now consider the question of exercise.
Bathing has not • been mentioned heretofore, since it is a natural accompaniment of exercise. But in some ways it might have been mentioned first under the head of interest.
One of the easiest ways in which to lure oneself into the paths of-exercising is by bathing. Only when the body is uncovered do we realize that it is too fat, or too lean, or too ill balanced. Again, many a woman can reawaken her whole interest by beginning with the bath tub. Gloriously tinted and scented soaps are an aesthetic delight. Bath salts give one that luxurious feeling of ease and untold wealth, and from the whole gamut of creams and lotions at least one pet can be chosen by even the poorest and busiest of housewives or business girls.
Indeed, it is not amiss to suggest that, for some, the first step towards awakening an interest in beauty via exercise and diet should come through the toilet accessory by way of the bathroom. But the bath of habit is never so glorious as the bath of necessity. After a hard day at golf, or tennis, or even housework, the bath tub holds a special charm.
Exercise is something that one can get, no matter what the circumstances. A set of daily gymnastics is best, but if one simply cannot do these, then part of the daily work should be made into exercise.
Walking is exercise. Washing clothes is exercise, sweeping is exercise, even combing one's hair is exercise. One wealthy woman who lives in an apartment hotel where she cannot do very much, washes out two sets of underwear every day over a low tub. She makes an exercise out of it. She straightens up and down and up and down, and sways back and forth. Then she makes a habit of stooping to pick things up from the floor without bending her knees. She has kept at herself for a year. At fifty she is as pink cheeked and agile as a girl, and is able to tire even her children when they come home from college. No long-sounding scientific process has kept her young. Sunshine, fresh air, diet an dexercise wit hits friend, the bath tub, have done it.
Yet with exercise comes the same question of mental attitude as with sunshine. Concentrate on your work. Make your muscles act. Feel them stretch, think about what is
happening to them. Breathe deeply. Don't yet your body sag anywhere. Think of yourself as you would be. Don't overdo at the start but on the other hand do not take sore muscles, and a protesting lazy body as signals that you are hurting yourself.
Exercise without diet and sunshine, and a good mental attitude, is about as useful as a phonograph without records.
Sunshine and normal attitudes cost nothing, they give everything.
And they slay the bogey old age. .
Not to mention fooling the radiendocrinologists.
COOKING ON A PLANK.
Planks for this purpose are usually make of oak. There are two kinds—the plain, oblong plank and the oval. If the plain plank is used, it is of one, two or three inches in thickness, according to the preference of the cook. The oval plank is like the chop or steak platter; it has the three converging grooves and the well at the end for collecting the gravy. It is also supplied with a metal frame, which holds the plank, and is placed on the table for service.
The plank may be used both as a cooking utensil and as a platter for serving the food, but often the food is cooked in the oven or under the broiler until it is almost done and is then placed on a plank and reheated in the oven. The food is served from the plank, which is placed on the table.
In using planks for cooking, the first step is to heat the plank thoroughly. This heating requires about fifteen minutes in a hot oven. The plank is then sprinkled with salt and brushed with butter, the food placed upon* it and cooked or reheated.
Only foods that cook in less than an hour are, as a rule, cooked entirely on planks. For this reason fish and chickens are usually split before planking. Steaks and chops are especially favored for plank service.
Among the foods that are cooked on planks are eggs, fish, steaks, chops and chickens. Whole shad, either with or without the roe, haddock, whitefish, split and filleted, slices of halibut, smelts and lobster, with or without oysters, are the fish most favored for planking. Rump steak, sirloin, club, porterhouse may. all be cooked in this manner. Steaks should be cut from one and one-half to two inches thick. English mutton chops are adapted to this method of cooking.
One of the advantages of the planked dinner is that all the vegetables that accompany the meat are served on the plank. But much of the success of the dinner depends upon the combinations that are used, the attractiveness of the arrangement and the ease with which it can be served.
ONE QUIET LIFE.
She must have been seventy. A mild, gentle old lady with faded blue eyes and a faded, diffident voice. Her frail, veined hands rested limply in, her lap as if the slightest movement would snap them at the wrist. She wore a plain blouse of gray flannel and a rusty black dress without shape thot covtered the very tips of her square-toed shoes.
Sitting bolt upright in her chair ,hardly moving her lips when she spoke, she seemed to be made of glass, brittle to the touch.
I had been told that of all the residents of Noumea she had lived the most strenuous life. Yet she said:
"Why no, nothing's ever really happened. No, I don't think so, not really."
And then I found out that she had been born on a trading schooner somewhere up in the Banks Islands, and that her mother had died the week after, and the schooner had been attacked when it anchored off Mota where the dead woman was to be buried.
She had been christened
Mercy because the attack failed.
She skipped twenty years of her life with the comment—
"Father always said I should have gone to school—but I liked the sea."
Then she married and went to live in a shack near Oub-atche at the Northern end of New Caledonia. The Kanakas were "pretty quiet," but one night they came knocking at the door while her husband was away. She opened the door a crack, and in rushed four of them in their war paint "and all." She shot two of them dead. The others fled.
"But they caught Tom a while later."
Then she went to keep house for her three brothers, and nothing more happened to her except that "sometimes the Kanakas were pretty nasty if they'd been drinking."
Two of her brothers lost their heads on such an 'occasion, and she only saved the other by dragging him twenty yards to shelter. Even then—
"What with tending Harry and the baby, and keeping my ears open for those Konakas, and thinking of Will hnd Hugh, I got no sleep that night."
After that her days were eventless. Her son was a good boy, now living in Australia, making money. She kept house for her brother Harry who couldn't do much for himself because his "leg never mended quite proper."
"But I like it here," she smiled. "It's nice and quiet. Noumea is quite a town now."
When I left she was standing over a wood fire preparing her brother's supper.
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CORRECT POSTURE.
To stand correctly, place, the feet about six inches apart, with their middle lines parallel, toes pointing straight ahead. A good way to get the proper verticle line is to stand with your back and heels against the side of the wall and then lean forward about three or four inches. The chest should be well out, as if pushing some object in front of it, the'head erect, abdomen flat, neck well up and perpendicular, and arms hanging loosely on the middle line of the hips. \You will now have the whole body in the proper position with relation to the natural centre of gravity, placing the weight of the body on the balls of the feet and not the heels.
Keep your head up! "Heads up!"'is a symbol for alertness in sports, for the person who carries his head in this manner usually is mentally and physically in better condition than the one who allows it to droop. It actually increases your self-respect and confidence' to throw back your shoulders and straighten your neck so your chin will be in. Show me a person whose head is constantly allowed- to sag and I will show you a person who isn't well. It is a sure sign that 'there is something the matter with the muscles or nerves.
In sitting, push the lower spine well back in the chair and lean back so that the body will be in the position given for Correct posture in standing. Keep the chest out and the abdomen in. -Do not permit the chest to sink and the abdomen to come up and meet it; they should be as far apart as possible.
The feet should point straight ahead in walking —• that it to say, their inner side should be parallel to and touch an imaginary line marking the direction of progress. It is better to be slightly pigeon-toed than to toe out. There was once a big-leagn baseball manager who always used to ask of a "scout" who had discovered a promising young player: "Does he toe in?" If the answer was in the affirmative ,the -manager would make further inquiries, but if the negative, he immediately lost interest. He probably got this idea from watching Napoleon Lajoie, who was then the star of the American League, walk.
Lajoie was one of the most graceful men I have ever seen. His movements were so smooth and easy that he just seemed to flow from one place to another, instead of walking or running. And he distinctly toed in.
Primitive men who habitually go barefooted always have springy, easy gaits and are able to travel great distances without fatigue. Put a pair of stylish shoes on one of them, however, and he would soon be reduced to the untrained white man's low level of endurance in walking.
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