The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-07-05
EDITORS CHAT.

How You May Reduce OF Increase Your
Weight and Measure-The Bible as a Ruler.
And Other Points of c. C. Interest.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
How TO reduce your weight, or how to in
crease il seems. to be topic agitating the
minds of about half of the population of the
United States.
You cannot pick up newspaper or a peri
odical of any kind without seeing an advertise
ment for anti fat, or a method for increasing
weight.
Lit is hard to find person nowadays who IS
satisfied with bis physique; he is either too
fat or too thin to suit either his own ideas or
the ideas of his friends.
The prescribed laws Of proportion require
the following measurements: man whose
hight is ) feet inches should weigh loo
pounds: feet inches 155 pounds; feet 8
INCHES l60 pounds; 5 feet 9iHches, 100 pounds;
5 feet 10 inches. 10 pounds; feet II inches
$50 pounds; feet, 100 pounds: feet men,
200 pounds; feet inches, 30 pounds.
woman whose hight is feet should weigh
lis pounds; feet 1 inch, l24 pounds; feet
3 inches, I2s pounds; feet inches, $50
hounds: feet 4 inches I36 pounds; D feet D
inches 139 pounds; 5 feet inches, las pounds;
5 feet inches, T53 pounds: 8 feet inches, l5S
pounds.
The bust of perfectly formed woman should
measure 10 inches more than her waist. Ii
Clo WHIST Is iac6G III SsiIatfSf VIC h"NN
men is pressed down and the bust up. causing
both TO protrude and COMPRISING the waist too
much for either health or beauty.
The abdomen should never be larger than
the bust which should measure at least i've
inches more than the abdomen.
The best and the only safe way to reduce flesh
Is by diet the natural and simplest mode, that
will not be attended with bad results.
Dieting does not mean starving, as many
people think, but the elimination of fat-pr0-
ducing foods, including pastry, confectionery.
buildings, and all kinds of cake, potatoes, nuts
butter. cream. and fat meats
This womb still leave a nice selection of nom
reproducing foods, including lean meats
soups, poultry, eggs. fish. cheese, vegetables
fresh fruit, and bread in moderation.
THE SALISBURY SYSTEM.
Then there is the famous DIR. Salishury's
system Of reducing the flesh, which has been
successful in reducing cases of abnormal
obesity.
Drink pint of het water one and half to
two hours before each meal and half an hour
before retiring, and take no other drinks be-
tween meals.
The food should be either the muscle-pulp of
beef, broiIed beefsteak, roast beef lamb or mat
ton, game, poultry, and fish, and toasted bread
without butter. No bread or vegetables al
lowed. This method is said to result in the
loss of from 10 to ID pounds month.
TO GAIN FLESH.
To gain flesh FIVE articles of food are said TO
be the foreordained means of building up fat.
They are bread, butter milk. sugar, and pota-
toes. You may feast on candy. cream, dough-
nuts griddle cakes, molasses, sweet fruits well
sugsred, and drink hot chocolate with cream
in il. You must walk slowly and as little as
possible, and be Just as lazy and indolent as
you please.
The too feshy girl must run up and down
stairs, do active homework, make beds, and
sweep and walk and exercise all she can.
After all. the best way to reduce flesh is to
walk, walk. walk. But after long walk you
viii be hungry, and the temptation will be
strong 20 ezs more than you need. If you will
avoid this the walk viii be beneficial and
gradually you viii reduce your flesh.
Az oLD-PAsHToSED REMEDY
An old-fashioned remedy for obesity sug-
gests itself in this connection: Take of anxiety
IS much as you can carry; of labor, II hours;
Of sleep, FIVE hours; of food, one meal of dis
appoined love, one season of blighted friend
ship half dozen instances. Let these ingrs-
dients be mixed carefully with a considerable
weight of debt, IN mind from which all
religious remedies have been excluded, and ex-
eesssive leanness viii be produced.
THE BIBLE RULER
A writer for young men believes that every
one Of them would follow the true rule of life
If be would put into faith and practice the
following text:
I'm ali thy ways acknowledge Him, and He
shall direct thy paths" Prov. 3:6.
By way of illustration he recounts the fol-
lowing anecdote. which reminds Us that Abra-
ham Lincoln used the straight ruler:
"Tbe Bible is so strict and Old fashioned, -
said young man 10 gray-baired friend, who
was advising him 70 study Gods word if he
wouls learn how TO live; there are plenty OF
books written nowadays that are moral euou gh
In their teaching, and do not bind one as the
Bible"
The old merchant turned to his desk and
took out two rulers one Of which was slightly
bent. With each of these he ruled line and
silently handed the ruled paper TO bis com-
panion.
well" said the young man, "what do you
mean"
''one line is not straight and true, is it?
When you mark out your path in life. do not
take crooked ruler"
CARE FOR YOUR THROAT
If yon are speaker a singer-aud who is
notI-do not tamper with your throat BY usi ng
stimulating food and drink. Especially beware
OF lozenges and troehes, and lemon-jaice and
sugar Instead Of clearing the throat theiI
eject in the end is just the opposite.
StrakOsch ia his dietary eliminated tobacco
cigars cigarets. candies ana nuts ice erea m.
and Ices. vinegar pickles, highly-seasoned dishes
and sauces, strong tea and coffee, and all aIco
holic and vin0us drinks, even to sherry and
whipped egg. so popular with singers.
III nature is not tampered with" he used
TO say, the throat will not need to be cleared
Nature supplies the saliva as a lubrieatins
fluid, and her action, if not opposed, will do al
that is needed"
OUR ROLL GALE.