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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    that it is a keen pleasure to look at them ; but sometimes in both singers and speakers there is an over-development of muscle that is the reverse of beautiful, and that makes the neck look short in proportion to the rest of the upper figure. So here again, the regular practice of a few systematised exercises such as the following will be preventive of mischief, or will tend to set it right if neglect to exercise, or excessive use in one direction, has caused any ; but in any case such exercises will strengthen and beautify the neck, and make it a pillar worthy to carry the lovely face and the intelligent brain that surmount it. It will materially assist the development of rounded contours if, before this set of exercises is commenced, the neck be well washed with warm water, and lubricated with a good tissue-builder bought from a reliable chemist, or the following skin food which can be made at home thus: In a white preserve-jar placed in a saucepan of water on the stove put one ounce of pure spermaceti, one of best white wax cut up into fine shreds, two ounces of lanoline, and two of glycerine of borax. When these, by gentle heat, are melted, blend them by stirring with an orange-wood stick from the manicure case ; then add two ounces of sweet almond oil, and again mix well. Take the mixture from the stove, and then beat into it, by slow degrees, one tablespoonful of orange-flower water, one of triple-distilled rosewater, and a tea- spoonful of simple extract of benzoin. Beat until the