"Straight as Ramrod" Key to Granny's Success Against Adiposis Whenever I write on posture, says Ida Jean Kam, noted American diet expert, I find myself sitting up as straight as my Great-aunt Abigail. She was such a stickler for correct carriage that, away ahead of her time, she mastered the touch system in knitting.
And she never did have a dowager's hump or a double chin!
The old phrase, "straight as a ramrod," was accurately descriptive of the ladies of that day. They had their pride and they expressed it in the unbending line of back and shoulders. Since then we have had to contend with the debutante slouch in which curvature of the spine became fashionable. And what a change that was!
Now we're back to the proud lady posture—with improvements. Aunt: Abigail's posture tended toward high in back. Relax slowly and repeat, Another good exercise is to hold a towel taut by either end back of the head and push against it with the back of the head. Repeat six times and rest.
Both the second and third exercises work directly on the dowager's hump and, at the same time, improve he throat line, within the class eligible for evacuation—schoolchildren, children under five accompanied by their mothers, expectant mothers, and the adult blind—will be given papers entitling them to be sent out of London. But the blind and expectant mothers need not register this week-end. That will be done through other channels. An appeal for a new and unofficial kind of air raid warden was made by Mr. Morrison. He wants "people of goodwill" to act as guides and escorts to people leaving London.
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