Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-19
SCALEOF CORRECT WEIGHTS How to Deal With an Excess of
 Flesh. WITH CARE AND ENERGY Any Woman Can Reduce Over Abundant Fat Without Injury to Her Health or
 Acquiring Wrinkles
BY DIANE DE MoRNY.

Feminine beauty is not compatible with either extreme stoutness or emaciation If there be a choice between obesity and leanness it is distinctly on the side of the latter condition and most of us would prefer to be bony to carrying an excess of flesh It is much easier, also 1 have found, to acquire flesh than to get rid of it.
 There is no royal road to beauty nor indeed to any other very desirable state of being, and the reduction of fat. while easily enough accomplished, all things being relative, requires perseverance, and self-denial.
 Treating Fat Scientifically.
 Fat is an accumulation of unburnt body fuse-in other words, fat IS car bon and carbon is consumed by oxygen which we inhale through our lungs. To put this into still plainer English, phy- sical exercise will we all know, reduce hesh-the reason is that in unusual eXer- else, such as rapid walking, horsepack riding, gymnastics or bicycling, the blood is more rapidly oXygenated and the re- suit is the destruction or burning out ot the fat; and you may have noticed that great walkers are never lat ana that people who live in high attitudes and in mountainous countries where they walk a great deal and consume quantltles or oxygen are always slim. There are all sorts of systems and theories respecting the reduction of fiesh
 Some Flesh Reducing Methods.
 About twenty years ago an English man named Banting made himself noto- rious and his name the synonym for fesh- reducing by the publication of pam phlet which may still be purchased giving in detail the history of his own case and telling the means by when ne reduced his weight from POP to l50 pounds in one year Mir. Banting for seV- ell years maintained his weight at l3o pounds; he lived on beef. mutton, hsh, bacon, dry toast and biscuit, poultry, game tea, coffee, claret and sherry, and abstained from pork, veal, salmon, su- gar, milk, all vegetables grown under round and I'll fatty and farinaceous substances. MT. Banting, however, con stunned daily about forty-three ounces or liquid There is no question about the success of the Banting system for those who wish to try it, but there are very few people possessed of the originators self-denial and persistency.
 Dr. Schweninger, the famous German physician who has established his repu- tation as flesh reducer through his suc- cess in rdding Prince Bismarck of forty pounds aVoirdupois in three months without the slightest deleterious effect upon his distinguished patients physical condition, restricts the consumptoin of liquids at all times and deprives the pa- tient entirely of all fluids during or within an hour of meals; forbids starch and sugar and advises most heroic physical exercise. This is a sure cure and for the man of iron not difficult, but for the av- craze American woman the Schweninger method would be martyrdom. pr. Say recommends the drinking of large quan- titles of hot tea, and Professor Oerter goes to the other extreme, for he not only de- prives his patients of the pleasure of all laying thirst when agreeable, but goes fIrth Inv 1imiOiGbinS the f1iOS in inc body by regime which would be to most of us as a most eXhausting one, as it con sisted of systematic sweating process.
 l heartily disapprove of this theory, as it cannot fail to be weakening and de- pressing and fatal to beauty. Dr. Eb- stein published a pamphlet some years ago recommending fatty food and sauces containing fat on the homeopathic prin- ciple of like cures like Alas! for those who tried this method, which resulted in some cases of gain of flesh to the extent of three pounds a week. Dr. Salisbury has been quite successful so far as the actual reduction of flesh is concerned by his system of diet strictly limited to underdone meats, principally beef, dry toast and hot water His pa- tients certainly get thin, but it is spe- cies of martyrdom which I have found unnecessary, as the same result may be accomplished more agreeably and with far better effect upon the complexion. The proper weight for varions heights is acknowledged to be as follows:
 Five feet 1 inch, 120 pounds; feet inches, 126 pounds; feet inches, 133 pounds; feet inches, 136 pounds; feet inches, 142 pounds; feet inches. 145 pounds feet inches, 149 pounds; feet inches, 155 pounds; feet inches, 162 pounds; feet 10 inches, 169 pounds; 5 feet II inches, 174 pounds 6 feet ITS pounds.
 How to Meet the Enemy.
 Most women begin to get too stout at about 30-sometimes little earlier, but in such cases there is usually an inherited tendency. Frequently the subjects are of indolent natures, though women who are of sedentary habits and mentally ex- tremely active also are troubled by obesity. Many literary women, com pelled to sit the greater part of their waking lives, are often great sufferers from fat I have never failed to reduce the flesh of a client who would follow my directions, and with the systems I advise here is not, as in most cases, the discour- aging outlook of wrinkles in place of fat
 Sleep. want of physical exercise sugar and starch, are, in my opinion. the most formidable of flesh producers. l will promise to reduce your weight from four to twelve pounds month, without ex- haustion, without drugs, without the nabbiness which Is so frequently the re- suit of flesh reducing, particularly when induced by drugs. You will find the re- lief from the burden of flesh so delightful, and the pleasures of life so increased as you approach a normal condition of health Cfor too much fat is disease) that you will be more than repaid for the ef- fort I am bound to say you must make Courage, therefore, what is worth hav- ing is worth fighting for" and first of ali please to get weighed You must limit your hours of sleep to seven at the out side-and no siestas during the day. Seven is a lucky number and a very good hour to quit your bed for the day If you are in the habit of taking a cold SnOnOo n tba rnnrnipo al tha boftor.