Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
FAIR, FAT AND FORTY
Ladies who Desire to Attain an
Healthy Old Age Advised.
WAYS OF ACQUIRING HEALTH.
The Worlds Most Distinguished Physi-
clans Tell the Ladies How to be Fair,
Fat and Forty-Ice Water and
Furnace Heat Condemned.
Copyright 1891, for the Gazette and All
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! Copyright, 1891, for the Gazette and All
rights reserved.
FAIR. FAT AND FORTY.
Every woman would like to live to be
fair, fat and forty if she could. A medical
| friend of mine, distinguished physician
of Western city, recently made those
words, which l have placed at the head of
this article, the subject of a lecture TO q
| class of ladies, and before preparing his
subject matter he wrote to seven of the
worlds most distinguished medical
specialists in all that pertains TO
women and requested them to state what
in their opinion, it is most essential for a
woman to do and to avoid in order to some
day attain that enviable condition. fair,
fat and forty. Recognizing the interest
and value of their replies to all woman
kind, have requested him to favor me
| with them, and am thus able to present
to my readers the following most interest
ing symposium.
GEoFFREY WILLIsToN CHRISTINE.
DIR. BARTON COOKE HIRsT CONDEMNS ICE
WATER AND FURNACE HEAT.
DR.. Barton Cooke Hirst, professor of OBJ
stetricS and diseases of women in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
boldly attacks two of our peculiarly Ameri-
dan institutions, as will be seen below:
2iS SOUTH SEVENTEENTH ST,
PHILADELPHIA PA, May H. 1891 (
DEAR DoCToR-In brief, the following
are, in my opinion, important details to be
attended to by all women who desire TO be
some day fair, fat and forty. A sponge
bath should be taken every morning with
cold or cool water standing the while in
warm water up to the calf of the leg. Even
weak constitution can endure this. A
vigorous rubbing with q coarse towel
should follow. The breakfast should be i
light one.
The room in which the Individual passes
most OF her time should not be kept too hot
with furnace air. An open fireplace is
blessing that should be more generally APP
preciated ! believe in late dinner-about
q p. m, because the family can always then
find plenty of time for it, and rest after
ward. The meal itself should consume an
hour at least, the time being taken up not
by the quantity of food devoured, but by
slow eating, and it is for this reason that
serving the chief meal in four or five
courses is so general in Europe and is be-
coming so in this country. Much ice water
IS decidedly injurious. / agree with Mrs.
Stanley, the wife of the African explorer,
who said recently that she found the mid
dle-aged ana elderly women in America in
ferior physically and i'll appearance TO
women of the same class in England, a
fact mainly attributable to hot furnace air
i'll the houses and the enormous consump-
ton of ice water
In regard to exercise, | think woman
should make it rule to be upon her feet
in the open air a certain length of time
every day, no matter what the weather
As a rule, especially for a married woman,
short nap or rest upon sofa for half an
hour or an hour late in the afternoon will
keep woman fresh for the evening and
prevent fatigue, pains in the back, etc.
Obstetrically and gynacologically, the
following points are of great Importance.
The woman who has just undergone the
pangs of maternity should not leave her
bed under the most favorable circumstances
in less than two weeks. and should not 90
down stairs for a month. During the peri
odical recurrence of certain physiological
conditions, a woman should endeavor to
keep happy mean between invalidism and
health, not passing the period in the house
upon bed or sofa, and yet on the other
hand guarding against going out in wet
weather, dancing, etc.
Hoping this will answer your purpose,
believe me very sincerely yours,
BARTON Cooke HIRsT,