. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. ly borne out. Although we havenot, at least in the same degree, the serene repose of mindand spirit which the ancient Greeks possessed as a heri-tage, we find that the habitual practice of dancing asthey danced has a happy tendency to overcome any suchdeficiency. With our mercurial temperament we areable to add a certain gayety which, evidently, was not intheir char
. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. ly borne out. Although we havenot, at least in the same degree, the serene repose of mindand spirit which the ancient Greeks possessed as a heri-tage, we find that the habitual practice of dancing asthey danced has a happy tendency to overcome any suchdeficiency. With our mercurial temperament we areable to add a certain gayety which, evidently, was not intheir character; but it is, nevertheless, health-inspiring ofitself, while broadening our powers of interpretation. Not only health, but alertness of mind and generalphysical efficiency are the reward of truly beautifuldancing. Such a dancer walks like a superior being, sur-rounded by an atmosphere of personal triumph. What-ever the kind of work she does, it is performed with sucheconomy of physical effort that her body hardly feels thepoisons of fatigue. Having the soundest of health, she Eighty-nine Representing joyous abandonment to an impulse of Natures gently per-suasive mood—as of floating forwcird borne upon a Summer Our Contribution to Health is never handicapped by the inhibitions of depressedspirits. Efficient in dancing as dancing ought to be, andwill be, she is efficient in all else she undertakes—accord-ing to her natural endowment of ability. In considering the details which enter into thishealth consummation, these are important: The vitalorgans of this ideally normal being are not strangled bycorsets laced up to the last notch—any form of stays, infact, are prohibited as ridiculous. Toes are not dislo-cated in efforts to compel them to bear the bodys entireweight; the effect of buoyancy is more effectively pro-duced by graceful and natural poising of the body uponthe ball of the foot. Neither are the feet, with their axisa straight line from the attachment
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