Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1933)

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How Sylvia Tamed "Jumpy Nerves" for Gloria Swanson [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 55 ] feel the blood coming to the face. That's just the effect you want. Doesn't it feel wonderful? You bet it does! There are three spots on the face that are sort of nerve centers and they've got to be relaxed They are the eyes, the side of the bead just above the cheek bone, and the cheeks just under the cheek bone. Press these two last named places as hard as you can and make your fingers vibrate, as you do it, but be sure to keep the rest of the face relaxed. Then gently, gently rotate the finger tips just at the corner of the eyes. That will keep those wrinkles away. And slowly stroke the eye-lids, too, as well as tap them ever so gently. To take down the double chin you've got to use more vigorous methods. Use both hands on this, rubbing down with the palm of one hand and up with the back of the other. And don't forget about using plenty of cold cream. But as you do this be sure to get your hand well under the chin right to the neck. 1 1 won't do a bit of good if you just pull the chin muscles down. Dig in under your chin. That's the stuff! And last, with the back of both hands give your chin, underneath, a good sound slapping for five minutes. That's the type of facial I gave Gloria Swanson twice every day, and it worked wonders. For if you're nervous your face shows it first, and even when you've conquered nerves, that face remains drawn and wrinkled. So all you girls who have the jitters get busy on the face. And it won't do you placid girls a bit of harm, either. Then at night, just before you go to sleep, press those bones of the head just back of the ears and also press the bone which the eyebrows cover, too. That will relax your nerves and make you drop right off to sleep. Also, I gave Gloria every sort of soothing treatment — which you can do for yourself — gently massaging the body all over and then working good and hard on the spine to get the circulation up. As for her stomach and waistline I had to be rougher. I squeezed off the fat around the waistline. The stomach exercise you already know. If you don't, you haven't been reading my articles as carefully as you should, and ought to be ashamed of yourself! T-TERE is the diet I gave Gloria: •* *■ The first thing every morning she had a glass of water into which a lemon had been squeezed. After she took her bath and gave herself a brisk rub with a good stiff brush, she had her breakfast: berries in season with thin coffee cream, two slices of thick broiled calves liver. two slices of melba toast with a little butter and jam, and tea. For luncheon she had three vegetables, a fresh green salad, and fruit in season. Remem ber that a nervous person should not eat too much meat. In the middle of the afternoon she had a glass of orange juice to pep her up, and at seven she had her dinner. For this she could have a fruit cup, clear soup, roast or broiled meat, two vegetables and a baked potato, salad and some small dessert like a little bit of cup custard with caramel sauce, fruit gelatine, water ice or ice cream. Gloria had to be constantly made to think of her nerves, because when she does a thing she strains her nerves to the limit and she doesn't care. No amount of lecturing will make her mend her ways. When she works — oh boy, how she works ! She's a marvelous mother, too, and makes absolutely no difference between her own two girls and her adopted boy, Joseph. I've already told you how vigorously she plays. So, to counteract all that expending of energy, I had to be with her constantly to quiet those nerves. But you nervous girls can't have me all the time. You've just got to pull yourselves together. Take it easy. Don't worry. Laugh it off. Nothing in your life is so bad that somebody hasn't worse breaks. Make yourself sleep by doing the things for yourself that I did for Gloria. And above all, while you're quieting your nerves, don't forget to give your face a chance. You'll regret it in a couple of years it you don't! Answers by Sylvia SLUMPED-OVER SHOULDERS Dear Sylvia: I've tried and tried to hold my shoulders up by doing everything you said, but honestly it seems to be a hopeless task and I always find myself slumping. Isn't there anything I can do? M. D. E., Providence, R. I. You bet there's something you can do. You can get enough will power to keep those shoulders up. And that's something I can't do for you. If, as you say, you've done everything I've told you to do, then you know how it should be done. The trouble with you is you won't do it. And that is up to you. I've got no patience with girls who haven't any will power. BONY, RED HANDS Dear Madame Sylvia: My hands are so big and bony and they're red most of the time. Besides, they have large veins in them. I know that the bone formation can't be changed but I thought something could be done for the redness. L. L., Lexington, Ky. Thank heaven you're smart enough to realize that bones can't be changed. I'm grateful for women like you. Now you'll just have to give a lot of time and thought to your hands. Here's your routine. Every night before you go to bed massage your hands with a good cold cream and massage each finger, too, with a movement as if you were pulling on a very tight glove. Then put gobs of cold cream on your hands and sleep with loose kid gloves on. Every morning wash your hands in lukewarm water and use plenty of hand lotion on them; then a dozen times during the day rub down your hand and fingers with that same glove movement. Just before you meet somebody upon whom you want to make a big impression, hold your hands above your head (in private, of course, they'll think you're crazy 92 TROUBLES, bothers, worries — what a joy it is, girls, to be able to help! You see here the kind of helpful advice Aunt Sylvia gives others. If you want help, simply write Sylvia, care of PHOTOPLAY Magazine, 221 West 57th Street, New York City, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. No obligation — glad I can be of assistance. otherwise) so that the blood can run away from your hands. And when you're sitting, don't let your arms hang down by your side. Keep them so that the blood runs back toward the arms. TOO MUCH SUNBURN My Dear Sylvia: I had a marvelous sunburn and thought it would turn into a good tan. But now the skin is peeling off and I look too terrible. What do you suppose is the trouble? Mrs. M. J., Fort Worth, Texas I think that you had too much sunshine at once. Do you know that the stars spend weeks working up that fine tan of theirs? The first day you should lie in the sun just live minutes on each side. The next day lie for ten minutes, and then lie for ten minutes for three or four days. Don't take the sun too quickly. That causes bad sunburn and the peeling you complain of. Some skins can take more sun than others but until you know how you re-act, take it slowly, lady, take it slowly. Maybe next summer you'll know better. ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR SYLVIA'S ANEMIA TREATMENT I >eai Sylvia: I just want to thank you. I had an incipient of anemia, but, according to vour instruc tion, I drank gallons of turnip greens juice and did all the rest of the things you recommended for anemia. The other day I had a doctor's examination and there's not the slightest trace of anemia now. G. D. H., San Francisco, Calif. Three cheers and a couple of big whoops. That's wonderful. I'd rather get a letter like that than a big check. Thanks a million for writing me. SQUEEZING OFF FAT Dear Sylvia: In squeezing off fat is it possible to squeeze too hard? My husband tells me that I might injure myself. Mrs. R. T. W.. Milwaukee, Wis. Personally. I don't believe that you'll squeeze too hard because you won't take the punishment when you're giving it to yourself. When I was treating the stars I used to make them yell so loud that I had to keep my radio going the whole time to drown out the noise. I thought maybe the police would think I was tossing off a murder. You mustn't squeeze too hard on the stomach and, of course, you must not squeeze the breasts at all. But I think you can squeeze and slap off lumps of fat anywhere else as hard as you like. Ten minutes a day of squeezing is enough, however. Do the rest by exercise. You can take off large areas of fat with exercise. It's just those persistent lumps that need real pressure. AVOCADOS FOR WEIGHT My dear Sylvia: Are avocados fattening? F. L.. Pasadena, Calif. Yes, indeed they are. They'll put weight on fast. I always give them in my diets for thin girls.