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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    smoothly that there is neither jerk nor gasp to the very end of it. If the chest muscles are at all weak, and if the shoulders have been inclined to stoop forward, a few times of doing this exercise consci- entiously will be enough at the beginning, because this, like all other exercises, to be of lasting benefit, must be stopped before fatigue point is reached. By and by the habit of deep nasal breathing will be- come second nature, and then instead of tiring us, it will invigorate ; but it must invariably be done a few times as the preliminary to each of the other exercises that we shall practise. A second breathing exercise is frequently taught to women whose nerves are wanting in tone, and who have lost the litheness and springiness of their walk. This variation is done by placing the fore- finger on the right nostril so as to quite close it, then inhaling a long deep breath through the left nostril ; when the lungs are fully expanded the left nostril is to be tightly closed, and the breath then slowly and evenly exhaled through the right nostril, from which of course the finger is now removed. The exercise is to be repeated on the other side by first shutting up the left nostril. This, by equal- ising the breathing through each nostril, strengthens the lungs, and makes the muscles of the upper half of the figure much stronger, at the same time de- veloping its beauty. It is also an exercise that tends to make a nose that is rather “ spread ” become more classic in shape, and it is also calculated to improve