The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-29
PEEsUADING BACK THE WAIST
Philosophy of Taking OF Fat From the
Loins and Abdomen.
Vork C,rv


Philosophy of Taking or Fat From the
Loins and Abdomen.
New York Sun.
1t is not SO much a mans weight that
troubles him as the part of the body where
the weight is located. A man may not be
tall and may weigh over $50 pounds, but it
will not trouble him anything like so much
as If he were taller and lighter, with thin
arms, thin legs, small chest and a big
stomach. This is often overlooked by peo-
pie in getting down their weight. BY fol-
lowing any of q number of systems per-
sistently mans weight may be reduced,
but the proportions of his figure may not
be altered. What most people who have
too much weight are after Is not only to
lose the excess of fat, but to attain to
neat figure. A big-boned man naturally
weighs more than a smail-boned man. The
bIg-boned man may weigh thirty or forty
pounds more and still have the better fig
ure.
Exercise, care in diet and abstinence
from fluids with meals will bring q mans
weight down; SO will sickness. Yet no
one wants the loss of weight that comes
from sickness. That is because the waste
is supplied by the tissues all over the body,
by the arms and the legs as we'll as the
waist. In some forms of sickness the
waist may even increase while the weight
diminishes.
Based on this, several new systems for
reducing the weight and preserving the
figure have come up. They are considered
by the directors of all the large gymna-
Sums in advising their pupils as to what
exercise to take.
A man with spindle legs is told to
go through exercise which will en-
large his calves and thigh muscles;
man with small chest takes chest ex-
ercise; a man with small arms takes
arm exercises. This is more trouble than
most people care 10 go through. They
have not the time or the energy and per-
sistence. Neither would it seem proper
and dignified for member of the Union
Club to run around track or for one of the
Matriarchs of the 400 to Jump up and down
on a springboard or to pull big
weights at arms length. These people
have reached an age when they do not give
much attention to the symmetrical devel-
opment of the muscles of the body. That
might do for their children or their grand
children, but they have not enough years
to live to spend them at it. To suit these
people some exercises have been devised
which may be practiced TO advantage by
other people as well. They are not COM
plete and they do not develop all the mus
cles of the body, but taken with care they
do not do any harm, and they will ANYHOW
do good to the digestion, if to nothing else,
1t is always a desirable thing to have q
neat, trim waist, or ii not neat trim waist.
to have some waist instead of larger cir
conference where the waist should be than
around the chest. IT the surplus fet is re-
moved from the waist it improves the figure
and does not require the great care and
exercise which a thorough system of weight
reduction needs, unless it is taken under
the supervision Of some specialist who fur
nishes the advice and the care.
Naturally there is certain symmetrical
proportion between the waist measure and
the other measurements of the BODY. This
proportion is not the same at all ages. nor
Tor people of all builds, but it may roughly
be stated in the case of man that the
waist measurement and the inside trousers
seam should be the same. That is, ii the
trousers leg is thirty-two inches, the waist
should be about thirty-two inches. A
margin of one or two inches does not mat
ter much, and viii usually be found in the
case OF very tall or very short men. This
ratio of the waist and leg holds good in.
ordinary cases.
The way TO reduce the waist Is to sweat
1t and to exercise its muscles. Exercising
the muscles e the arm increases