MAKING LITTLE WOMEN TALL.
QUEEN MARY’S FAVORITE ENER- . CISES.
“Many of my lady pupils are fond of •bln jueen Mary exercises, which are fur —aking die figure symmetrical.” A woman physical-culture teacher of London asserts that they are the exercises which the Queen takes every day. “hold your arms behind your back and walk" around the room. , Try to walk around a central object, such as a table, in order 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 shoulder seams of your gown. Walk half a mile with your fingers resting on your shoulders and with your elbows tossed back. ... “Practice high-stepping. This exercise is said to be a favorite with Queen Mary. At first’ her physical-culture teacher was afraid to recommend it to her. But she requested l , an exercise for a graceful walk. “ ‘I am afraid you will not approve, your Majesty,’ objected the physicalculture teacher. ‘lt is a high-stepping walk.’
“The Queen laughed. “ ‘I imagine I am getting the credit for being a stuffy sort of person/ she returned. ‘But lam sure I could not abiect to an exercise that would develop the figure, if one had not the time to walk/ “The exercise does for a woman m ten minutes what she could hardly accomplish in less than two hours if she were to go for a tramp. It can be taken in one’s house as well as in a gymnasium. “The foot is lifted with each step until it is on a level with the knee. The heel should be lifted straight up; 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 making the figure grow. “If one perseveres one ought to be able to add to the height at the rate of a quarter of an inch & month until one has added three-quarters of an inch in three, months. There have been cases in which a whole inch was added, but these are no longer considered good.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3333, 27 September 1911, Page 7
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363MAKING LITTLE WOMEN TALL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3333, 27 September 1911, Page 7
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