The herald., 1895-09-15
THE BEAUTY
OF WOMEN
The Over-Fleshy Woman
Is Seldom, if Ever,
a Beauty
THE REMEDY FOR OBESITY
To Reduce Her Flesh She Must Put
Many Things on the Black
List and Follow Close
Rules Of Diet
THE REMEDY FOR OBESITY

A woman with 4s-inch bust, 36-inch
| waist, three chins and a capacity for
| bringing down the scales at or about the
| 200 pound mark. it is almost unnecessary
| to say, is barred from entering beauty
contest. | have frequently seen women
| who might have been radianly lovely but
| for the terrible maladv called obesity.
| Fortuntely 1t is curabe and all fat women
| who are willing to take the pains and to
exercise the necessary self-denial, may
| be nationally and wholesomely, without
danger, pain or drugs, reduce their flesh
until they have attained a normal condi-
tion-for too much fat must be consider
| ed as disease, and must be treated ac-
| cordingly. There are number of causes
of obesity. Frequently it is hereditary,
and it is indeed sometimes a double in
heritnce, both parents having been over
| corpuleht; these are the most difficult
cases to conquer. Statistics taken in
Paris in 1890 show that out Of 100 cases
of obesity 7S are herec itary. The inclina-
tion to corpulence shows itself usually
between 1.-THE thirtieth and thirty-ffth
| year-sometimes earlier. If not legacy
from parents or grandparents, it is fre-
auently induced by lymphatic tenn pera-
ment or life of sedentsry occupation.
People who spend a great part of their
lives reading, writing or in devotional
| duties, lpriests and nuns for example)
| are often burdened with too much flesh,
and the easy-tempered, good -natured
woman, fond of eating and not at al
| given to athletics, loses her youthful and
dainty senderness for matronly embon-
point while she is still so young in spirit
that she is deprived of many of life's most
| nnocenttpleasures. Exercise and diet-po
starvation by any means-will reduce
flesh. Nothing else will do SO except
powerful drastics, and the drugs which
are violent enough to reduce your weight
by their cathartic properties will reduce
your strength in a ratio, and make you
a feeble, shrunken and wrinkled uyspep.
tic, instead of supple, active, splendid
! ly strong and healthy woman. Never take
an internal remedy to reduce fat. lust
consider that your stomach Is like an en-
gine or stovc-the food you put into it is
fuel; now all that carthartic obesity pills
or draughts can do is to drive great
deal moro fuel than required, at furi-
Gus rate, through the engine. 1t is on
the. principle of burning skindling wood
| soaked in kerosene or running the stove
| with soft coal-you will certaInlysget up
q com bnstion but the stove or engine will
| wear out in the process. No food is of
value in your stomach except it be natur.
ally digested and converted into blood
and tissues. To fill your stomach with
u lot of fat-forming ingredients and then
| 20 try and aofoaG tho natural results by
following it upswith drastic medicines, is
not only absurd, but a disgustingy ma
tnr al frct IS L,.I- 4
which most readily produces fat is that
which contains q large proportion of
starch or sugar. To reduce your weight
you should blacklist the following arti-
cles: sN
THE BLACK LIST, 9l
| All sweets, candies, desserts, preserved
| fruits. anything and everything contain
! purees of peas. potatoes, beans, etc.
Meats-Veal, pork in any form. Fish
| Salmon. All corn. butter and oil. cream
| and milk and all farinaceous food, mac
| aroni, vermicelli. tapoca. sago. rice; in
fact all the cereals such as oatmeal, fari-
| ma: buckwheat hominy are fat makers.
All hot breads, whent breads, cake ETC.
All forms Of chocolate and cocoa, all
beers, sweet wines, champagne or soft
sweet drinks.
At first glance it will seem to you there
is little left for you but slow starvation,
have left enough to form daily feast for
any well-conditioned woman in following,
which we will call
THE BLUE LIST.
Soups-Consomm or meat sounds, ad
lib. Fish of all kinds except salmon
Meats (underdone) Beef. mutton, poul-
trv and game of all kinds. Vegetables
Tomatoes, spinach, cabbage. cucumbers,
turnips, ladishes, celery and vegetables
not starchy or sweat. Salads of all kinds.
Fruit OF every description without sugar.
Wines-A thin claret. Rhine wine or
sherry. but any are permitted rather un-
der protest. Three meals day and no
lunches of ''tiffins." For breakfast coffee
or tea, if you must. Try to do without
sugar or cream; if this is impossible or
too great prlvation, reduce the guam
tity gradually. Dry toasted graham, rye
or unsw sweetened brown breads. Sprinkle
little salt on it and pretend it is butter.
Salt for butter is the easiest of substi-
tutes to get accustomed to Warm wheat
breads are destructive to both digestion
and complexion and are also constr pat
ing and flesh producing. What you need
is relaxing food and the bran in the flour
is your friend. There is a bread manu-
factured in New York absolutely free
from starch. 1t is not one of the So
called health breads. but is manufactured
very carefully and only for special Gus
toners. The so-callen health foods are
very uncertain, sometimes good and made |
as represented and elnsntly quite the !
contrary. Underdone steaks or chops or "a |
bit of broiled chicken ana anything in |
the way of crosses, fruit eggs in any |
form. Luncheon should consist of /
toast, underdone meat. fruit and green
vegetables or salads. Dinner-One of the |
soups not on the black list, fish, under
done meat, vegetables, salads and des-
sert of ripe fruit and black coffee
Surely you cannot s,arve on such a
diet, but you can and must reduce your
fat, for you are reducing the quantity OF
carbon put into your stomach each day.
Fat is carbon. The only way to get rid
of it is to stop the supplies which make
it and to burn out whatever excess remains
by exercise which oxygenates the blood
and consumes the fat. You can, of course
reduce yourself to a certain extent with
out exercise by eating the proper food
and abstaining from fat-making mater
ials, but in tins case you will have lot
Of fiabby flesh hanging around your ab-
domen and thighs, and about your mock
and throat you will look prematurely
wrinkled and withered. This dire CON
dition, SO fatal to beauty, may only be
obviated by exercise. Very fat women
find it difficult and fatiguing to take
much physical exercise. Try TO walk
eacn day for at least an hour and never,
ii YOU wish to regain your pretty figure,