The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-24

became not only pale and fiabby, but the
prey of very obstinate sort of eczema /;
and instead of becoming more graceful
this foolish girl, who had been by no
means unwieldy, barely escaped losing the
use of her legs altogether.
She was threatened with a very trying
disease of the knee-pan, by which it de
tached itself and slipped down the leg!
An affection commoner than is generally
believed, and traceable often to innutri-
tion and a collapse of the general system.
Devotion to gastronomy, laughter and
plenty of sleep is said to be the prime pro-
moter of plumpness. At any rate, the
woman who proposes to train her flesh
may well take her cue from the system of
feeding and passive exercise" now in
vogue in the private "nervines" fire.
quented by the fashionable and wealthy.
The patient in these nervines is compelled
to gorge, as 1t were, to make up for years
OF faulty Authorization.
"Digestives" that secure speedy com
plete assimilation are taken with each
meal and successfully intercept bilious
disorders and uncomfortable sensations Of
repletion!
Usually, the menu is a restrictive one
at first, consisting oflittle besides milk,
which more than any other one food con-
tains all that is essential to the making
of blood, bone and fat, and eggs, which
administer directly to the nerve and brain
force. An egg and a glass of milk, alter
nately, every two hours, is the initial
quantity often prescribed. Later on,
gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. in addi-
ton to such highly nutritive dainties as
toasted bananas, pate de foie gras sand
witches, hot chocolate, whipped cream
fiummeries and a pound of tenderloin
steak are disposed OF daily with positive
nonchalance by the woman who, four or
six months earlier, had scarcely been able
to make away with a glass of wine and
chickens wing
IAN excellent digestive is found in a
powdered preparation called ''diastods f"
/ have known several emaciated girls who
sought plumper contours TO take a spoon
full of this powder in the abumpers gigan-
tic'' of milk they drank each day. Coffee,
tea. lemonade, condiments and toasts are
partaken of sparingly; and the frequency
with which meals come is great item, as
directly after eating there is a tendency
to inactivity which is in itself conducive
to fat.
Massage takes the place of gymnastics
and all Violent sports for the spare girl,
who still must, if she would have firm
flesh and healthy, plant muscles give her
body more all-round exercise than codmes
from walking, going up and down stairs,
lifting and reaching, sewing, writing,
dressing and the like.
The kneading, the pounding, the squeez-
ing and the pressures and incessant flex-
ings that make up an hour of massage
insures pliancy and tone for each mus lie
and ligauure, and thus also quicken some
what respiration, circulation and excre-
tion.
The seeker after plumpness. further
more, should take her daily airing in a
carriage and not on foot. If a carriage is
out of the question, an excellent substi-
tute, for the country girl at any rate, is
found even in winter in plenty Of fur
robes and a well-eushioned armchair
placed in a sequestered corner Of the
broad piazza. There she may sit filing
up her lungs with oxygen, with perfect
safety for an hour at a stretch. This
stationary constitutional" is quite as
beneficial as the drive in a close carriage
j have heard that one of our society
leaders, whose last word, act or caprice
of toilet sc s a precedent, has had a low
board platform built and plated in the
little yard az the back Of her town house.
On every Sunday morning during the past
winter the platform has been spread with
skins; this beauty and social lawgiver,
enveloped in pelisse of fur and half hid
den in the capacious embrace Of a sleepy
hollow armchair, with footstool and Nor
wegian footmutf for her aristocratic little
feet, has summed and oxygeniated herself
without dOhng peIgnoir!