Look After Your Figure While Doing the Housework!

1 — For the stomach: One of your daily household tasks is making the beds. When you bend, take care to keep your feet together and your knees straight, after folding at the waist and pulling in your stomach; this prevents fat from gathering around your waist.

2 — For the bust: Among the tasks you cannot avoid is dusting the furniture of your home. Perform this operation as you see in the drawing: set your feet apart and bend over without bending your knees, keeping your back straight. Stretch out one arm so as to form a right angle, and make circular movements with your shoulders as you dust. This helps to preserve the beauty of your bust.

3 — For the muscles: Do the pictures on the walls need "straightening"? Standing perfectly erect, with your feet together, while your arms form an obtuse angle upward, aids your muscles and strengthens them.

4 — The back: The ceiling of the house is high, and you cannot reach it every day; but a feather duster can help you play this part, while it also works to stretch the muscles, the spine, and all the members of the body. Put your feet together and reach upward as far as you can, until you feel a tautness in your back.

5 — The waist: Do not strike from your daily program the wiping of the lower parts of your furniture, for there is an ideal benefit in it for exercising your body: every time you bend, your waist grows slimmer. Take care to keep your feet apart during this part, the knees remaining straight, with the hips tucked in; take a deep breath from time to time.

6 — The legs: Cleaning the cupboards and drawers and tidying them is enjoyable work if you make good use of it. Squat down on your haunches, knees to the front, until the heels of your feet touch your hips, throwing your weight onto the tips of your toes. This exercise will make the muscles of your legs ache a little — which means that they are in need of exercise.

7 — For suppleness: Smile always, for this lends you an attractive tint of beauty and vitality. Keep your feet together without bending your knees, and lean forward to pick up your things.

8 — For gracefulness: If you must use the ladder, be sure to climb it skillfully, throwing the weight of your body onto one foot and placing the other foot on the first rung of the ladder, keeping your shoulders straight and your head raised. This is a delightful lesson in balancing your figure.