PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAM OUTLINED FOR BOEING WOMEN

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Miss Lilyan Malmstead of New York to Spend Two Weeks in Wichita

TO PREVENT FATIGUE

Physical fitness for women war workers is the theme and object back of a plan. that brought to Wichita Sunday Miss Lilyan Malmstead, operator of a famed New York physical culture salon and originator of a program of new physical exercises designed to relieve industrial fatigue.

As a public service contribution to the nation's war effort, Coty, Inc., manufacturer of cosmetics and perfumes, has sent Miss Malmstead to Wichita to institute a program of physical fitness and exercises for the women employes of the Boeing Airplane company. Working under the direction of the Coty company, Miss Malmstead has worked on her program in a number of great war production plants in the East, but to date her work in the plants has been confined to lectures and to personal demonstration of her system of exercises.

The arrangement with the Boeing company here will give Miss Malmstead her first opportunity to work with a group of employes over an extended period of time, actually directing them daily in a program of fatigue preventing exercises. Russell Mosser, director of education for the Boeing personnel department, said Sunday the company planned to have Miss Malmstead work with the women engaged in their paid training program at the board of education's division of aircraft training, formerly known as the national defense training school, at 151 North Waco,

Here Two Weeks

Miss Malmstead plans to be here about two weeks. She plans to work with the women on all three shifts in the aircraft training division. Bubbling with enthusiasm, she had the window of her room at the Allis hotel wide open Sunday afternoon, enjoying the Wichita air, which she seemed to consider a rare treat. She is a graduate of the Sargent school of physical education and completed her research work at King's College hospital, London, and the Children's hospital , Paris. The Malmstead system of physical exercise is based on the premise that the body should be released occasionally from the evils of constant forward-bending caused by ordinary daily activities and work.

This is accomplished by a system of uplifting the body and developing muscular balance through backward bending exercises. Through years of planning, Miss Malmstead has reduced her program to a set of 12 exercises, all based on the idea of bending backward.

"I'm bending over backwards in my efforts to help the war industry workers do a better job," Miss Malmstead said Sunday. "War plant workers, constantly bending forward in exhausting and cramping positions, need backward bending exercises designed to counteract, by reversal of daily postures, the evils of forward slumping and bending.

Steady hours in a forward bending position make it all the more important that time be taken occasionally to relieve the body from tension and strain."

Requires Little Time

Miss Malmstead contends that six minutes a day, devoted to her exercises, will strengthen the body, improve health and the figure, and build resistance against fatigue.

Working with the cooperation of school authorities and Boeing company officials, she will begin her program with the Boeing employes in the aircraft training division Monday morning.

Boeing personnel officials feel that Miss Malmstead's work will be of particular value to them because so many of the new employes going into aircraft production work here are housewives and other women who have not done strenuous work for a number of years. These women, they say, must be toughened up physically before they are ready for the daily rigors of factory work. They feel that any program which can develop individual resistance against fatigue will be of inestimable value to the new war production workers.

(The Wichita Eagle January 11 1943)

為波音女性制定的體能計劃

女性戰地工作者的身體健康是該計劃的主題和目標。週日，莉莉安·馬爾姆斯特德小姐來到威奇托，她是紐約一家著名體育沙龍的經營者，也是旨在緩解工業疲勞的新體育鍛煉計劃的創始人。

作為國家戰爭努力的公共服務貢獻，化妝品和香水製造商科蒂公司已派馬爾姆斯特德小姐前往威奇托，為波音飛機公司的女員工製定一項身體健康和鍛煉計劃。在科蒂公司的指導下，馬爾姆斯特德小姐在東部的許多大型戰爭生產工廠中從事她的計劃，但迄今為止，她在工廠的工作僅限於講座和個人演示她的練習系統。

與波音的安排將使馬爾姆斯特德小姐第一次有機會與一群員工長期合作，實際上每天指導他們進行預防疲勞運動計畫。波音公司人事部教育主管拉塞爾·莫瑟週日表示，該公司計劃讓馬爾姆斯特德小姐與在教育委員會飛機培訓部門（前身為國防培訓學校）參與付費培訓項目的女性一起工作。韋科151 號，

這裡兩週

馬姆斯特德小姐計劃在這裡待兩週左右。她計劃在飛機訓練部門的所有三個輪班中與女性一起工作。週日下午，她熱情洋溢地打開了艾利斯飯店房間的窗戶，享受著威奇託的空氣，她似乎認為這是一種難得的享受。她畢業於薩金特體育學院，並在倫敦國王學院醫院和巴黎兒童醫院完成了研究工作。馬爾姆斯特德體育鍛煉系統的前提是，身體應該偶爾從日常活動和工作引起的持續前傾的弊病中解脫出來。

這是透過後彎練習提升身體和發展肌肉平衡的系統來實現的。經過多年的規劃，馬爾姆斯特德小姐將她的計劃減少到一組 12 個練習，所有練習都是基於向後彎曲的概念。

馬姆斯特德週日表示：“我正在竭盡全力幫助軍工工人做得更好。” 「軍工廠工人經常在疲憊和抽筋的姿勢下向前彎腰，需要進行向後彎曲練習，旨在透過逆轉日常姿勢來抵消向前塌陷和彎曲的弊端。

長時間保持向前彎曲的姿勢使得偶爾花點時間緩解身體的緊張和緊張變得更加重要。

需要很少的時間

馬姆斯特德小姐認為，每天運動六分鐘可以增強體質，改善健康狀況，改善身材，並增強抵抗疲勞的能力。

在學校當局和波音公司官員的合作下，她將於週一早上在飛機培訓部門與波音員工一起開始她的計畫。

波音人事官員認為，馬爾姆斯特德小姐的工作對他們來說特別有價值，因為這裡進入飛機生產工作的許多新員工都是家庭主婦和其他多年來沒有從事過重體力工作的女性。他們說，這些女性必須先鍛鍊身體，才能做好每天艱苦的工廠工作的準備。他們認為，任何能夠培養個人抗疲勞能力的計畫對於新的戰爭生產工人來說都將具有不可估量的價值。

Mrs. Lillian A. McCullock, 68, of Seattle, Wash., formerly of Moline, died Wednesday at Queen Anne Villa in Seattle.

Graveside services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. The Rev. LeRoy Hudson, of the Church of Christ, Moline, will officiate. There will be no visitation.

Esterdahl Mortuary, Moline, is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials may be made to Alzheimers Desease or American Cancer Society.

Lillian Malmstead was born Pinebur, Miss. She married Donald Ellsworth Roberts in 1937 in Moline. She later married Harold "Max" McCullock in August 1952 in Rock Island. He died in March 1965.

She had worked as a shipping and receiving clerk for Sears Roebuck Co., Moline, and later operated a domestic service and a private catering service for various indiduals in the Quad-City area. Survivors include a son, William Lee Roberts, Seattle; a sister, Mildred Pfetzing, Moline, and a brother, Roy Malmstead, Island. Rock Island. (1984 August)

Keep Your Chin Up, If you want a lovely figure

LENGTHEN the line between your waist and your chin and you will not only lengthen your life but also increase your beauty.

That is the firm belief of Lilyan Malmstead. She is known as a successful lecturer and author on beauty and health, and her newest hook, "Awaken Your Sleeping Beauty." seems to contain some rather practical suggestions for better looks.

Erectitude that is her key word. She explains it thus:

"This carriage lifts the body upward and backward-thus lengthening the front of the body from chin to the waist, and shortening it correspondingly in the back and seeks to correct the activities of common usage forced on us by occupation."

She is opposed to all forward-bending exercises because, according to her, they violate the heritage of man, which is to be able to stand up straight. But her series of attitudes (exercises), two of which are given here with illustrations, insist on the backward line of exercise.

"A backward-bending motion," she explains, "brings the body into a continuous curve, continually reviving one's energy and endurance, and expressing freedom and harmony.

Miss Malmstead is considered a perfect physical specimen and her proportions are lik ened to those of the modern Venus. Therefore, her attitudes or exercises, which she claims have helped her achieve such beauty, might be worth trying.

"Not more than six minutes a day are required for practice. But hourly application of the principle of erectitude is of greatest necessity to insure proper bodily proportions," she says.

Attitude for awakening the beauty of the abdomen, shoulders and waistline: Separate feet about 12 inches. With left hand touching back of left knee, bend body to left side. At the same time, swing right arm in front of the face and circle arm over in the direction of the left side, as in the upper sketch. Continue by raising arm high over the head, down toward the right side until hand touches back of the right knee, at same time releasing the left hand from left knee.

Now swing the left arm in front of the face and circle arm over in direction of the right side, continuing by raising arm high above the head, down toward the left side until hand touches back of left knee, at the same time re- leasing the right hand from the right knee.

Continue these movements, alternating first one and then the other until you have completed 16, keeping the body backward from the waistline when bending to side.

This second attitude from her book "Awaken Your Sleeping Beauty" is to in crease the beauty of back, abdomen and hips. Lie face downward on firm bed or flat table (as shown in the lower sketch). Rest the upper part of body on bed or table. Reach arms above the head, grasping either side of bed or table. Keep both legs together.

Swing legs backward upward to the level of the table or a little higher, raising head upward at same time. Hesitate for a moment, then- Drop head and lower legs to floor. Instantly repeat for 10 counts. In order to accomplish the desired results, each swing should be spontaneous. Avoid any drag. (The Sunday Morning Star 1935 Oct)