The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-23
ADVICE FOR PLUMP GIRLS
What They Should and Should Not
Do-Candies Forbidden.

Women realize that excessive fat is
detrimental to personal beauty, but
how to prevent the same is o question
many are asking. Obesity is also now
considered by the best physicians o
disease, which should be regulated by
diet and exercise if we would not sue
cumb to the evils which are sure to
follow. Or all the learned men who
have given the subject consideration,
from Hippocrates down, more have
been able to suggest some system TO
diminish co~rpulency than 10 dis
cover the real causes. One scientist
alleges as the reason a too active
digestion, another suggests that 1t is
most often developed in Emphatic
constitutions. All agree, however,
that certain conditions may be cited
as contributing to such a state. ii not
actually causing it, among which are
sedentary habits, hot baths. heated
atmosphere and starchy foods. lie Is
a common saying that lore people
eat too much than too little but often
the amount. eaten seems to have little
to do with the amount OF flesh. Want
of activity caused by tirinE,a too easy
life, or by indulgence in too much
sleep, is another grim reason, which,
in spite of exceptions, is perhaps as
great a cause as any, the fat accumu-
lating instead of being consumed.
Psychologists state that the quantity
OF fat necessary to the organism is
one-tenth of the weight of the body
in an adult. Taking this rule as a
test, it is easy to see how much too
fat one is.
But without stepping on the scales,
every woman knows by the discom-
forts she feels whether she is APP
preaching the point when she is too
fat. She knows it by the breathing
becoming short in going up stairs, by
a feeling of ~suffocation at times, and
by weakening of the ankles. At this
period she can certainly obviate mat
tiers by adopting a prescribed method
of diet and exercise. Many such have
been given, but the trouble is they
are not followed carefully enough till
some malady of the heart or liver
proves it is too late. A little woman
who has given the subject much study
for her own sake, said the other day
she had at different times, reduced
her weight ten pounds in two
weeks, and she felt certain she
could as easily increase it.
She measures a trife over five feet
and proposes to weigh not more than
one hundred and fifteen pounds.
She seldom allows herself the luxury
of a hot bath, but every morning
sponges herself in cold water, followed
by what massage she can accomplish
herself. In obstinate cases it is a
great help to resort to scientific mas
sage treatment in connection with the
Russian bath. Walking will very
seldom prove sufficient exercise, when
gymnastics either in a class or by
ones self, according to any good
printed system, must be employed,
Clothing should not be worn too
warm and there should be plenty OF
fresh air in the sleeping chamber.
Sweets of all kinds. candies, cake and
pastry must be given up. 1t is also a
mistake to think one can eat. all the
meat one wants, having excluded po-
tatoes. Not owe seven ounces OF
meat should be eaten even at dinner
and much less at breakfast or lunch.
In Ease of eggs the yolk only is
allowed. Thin slices Of bread should
be eaten, toasted brown. A little
butter is not denied, only where i'm
mediate results must be obtained. In
cases where there is an inclination
to obesity, but where as yet
such is not the case, bread is
allowed, ~untoasted, and coffee or
tea, with sugar and milk. The
use of the latter, however, must de-
pend on individual cases. Lettuce,
spinach, cabbage, tomatoes and Gel
cry are some of the vegetables that
a be eaten unsparingly. Five
ounces Of steak, cabbage salad or
| sliced tomatoes and toast bread is not
| such a bad breakfast. Fruit will dc
less harm cooked. Farinaceous dishes,
such as rice and m%accaronl, are not to
be used at all, or very sparingly. Act
ing on some of these suggestions sew
| eral women have had the satisfaction
of reducing their weight a pound and
a half per week, or even more. accord
ing to the care taken.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Sentiments from Feline.
We must forgive much in women,
for they love much and also many.
Poverty sits by the cradle of great
men and rocks them up to manhood,
and is their faithful companion
through life.
Round my cradle shinmered the
| last moonbeams of the eighteenth
century and the first morning beams
| of the nineteenth.
The modesty OF a oma is a pro
lection to her virtue, 0 secure than
all the robes In the world, however
little they may be cut down at the
neck.
Matrimony is a high sea for which
no compass has ave yet been invent
ed.
Woman has 80, 900 different modes