Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-03

What work 1t wasl and to think that little
girls find pleasure in jumping the ropei
Skipping Not Always Permissible.
IEas cut short of nv "happy thought"
experiment by the neiehbors, particularly
the hatters living Immediately beneath, who
complained of the shaking of the walls, and
declared they were afraid would bring the
house down. It was in the Buddenslek
part Of New York, and 1 was obliged to de-
sist after two weeks trial. 1 regretted this
greatly, as I was then and am still of the
fixed belief that a daily dose of rope-jump-
ing will cure adiposity, because the exercise
brings the arms as we'll az the legs into act
i've motion, and jounces and stirs up the en-
tire physical system, bringing into play the
abdominal muscles, quickening respiration
and the hearts action and increasing the
circulation of the blood. 1t has also good
effect upon the liver; so. too, has going up
and down stairs. an excellent exercise for
the stout, especially women who are con-
fined to the house by bad weather or home
duties. They should begin slowly at first
and not overtax their strength, going up
once or twice only to begin with.
Like most persons when the fat is in proc
ess OF forming I had good appetite. More
over, could not then be brought to behave
that eating certain articles Of food causes
corpulence, and, like many another. I won-
dered why food was given US by a benefeent
Creator if not to be eaten. That still, 1 CON-
Tess. is a puzzle to me. Eve, too, must also
have copjectured why the fruit was made so
tempting and placed within her reach if not
to be plucked and eaten, but, like her. I
have had to accept the fact that there are
many forbidden fruits and viands placed
ruift in oh had hatt M
touch.
Discovered Great Panacea.
Entertaining the pleasant and popular
view that food was created to be eaten, and
suffering when deprived oft, hailed with
delighta certain obesity cure OF which an
English friend told me just after finished
my skipping rope act. 1t was the great
English remedy, "Polysarcia," so we'll
known that you have only to subscribe
letter "Polysarcia, London, England" to
have it safely reach the proprietor of the
anti-corpulent preparation. was assured
that it was not dietary process, there was
no fasting to be observed and no medicine
to be taken, and vet it was so efficacious that
when writing Tor particulars bulky little
pamphlet was sent to me containing certii-
Gates of "cure" from dwelers on Green
lands icy mountains and "India's coral
tory. Of what could this mysterious obesity
cure consist?
lost no time in sending to England for
some of this famous -"Polysareia." 1t ar
rived, and here 1 wish most emphatically to
remark. that il any of these so-called reme-
dies have failed to relieve me of my 800
solid fesh," the failure has been in no wise
owing to nv not following the given di-
rections, for I have invariably done so to
the very letter.
Another OF the Same Sort
The mysterious and much vaunted ''Poly-
sarcia" proved to be a mixture of highly
acidulated but not disagreeable taste, Of
which one tablespoon was to be taken after
each meal. Some years after my Polysarcian
experience, 1 was talked into taking q
gallon Of "the microbe killer" the merits
Of which are herslded 10 the public by an
advertisement OF man with uplifted club
advancing upon skeleton, presumably
representing death about to be crushed to
earth, and, unlike truth, never to rise again.
Well, the famous Polysarcia and the skele-
ton exterminator might be twin medicines
ii similarity in taste could make them so.
This much can say of both OF them-they
did me no good, neither did they do me any
harm.
After the assurances had received that
no fasting was required in the great English
anti-fat system was surprised to find that
/ must abstain from one meal to which had
all my life been accustomed, namely,
luncheon. In my next letter will give the
bill of instructions accompanying the
"Polysarcian" drug exactly as received it
from London. CELIA LOGAN.