Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-19
BIRMINGHAM AGEHERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1895

those who are robust. and certainly in such cases invigorating.
 Regulating the Diet.
 Practice a few moments with your dumb bells before breakfast, and at that meal abstain from potatoes, all kinds of hot wheat breads. and eat any ripe fruit you may like, with a wedge or two of dry,toast, good-szed bit of underdone steak or mutton. Sprinkle little salt on your toast and you will find 1t does very well instead of butter; in fact you will very soon find you are getting on without a thought of butter, which you must not eat. You may drink tea or coffee and in either case sweeten the liquid with a saecharine tablet q grain) which you may purchase at any apothe- cary's. The tablets are put up in small bottles containing about twenty-five each. One cup of tea or coffee must suffice. Use milk only sufficient to make your beverage palatable, and II IL IS not a real privation to you, dispense with coffee or tea; it will hasten the flesh re- ducing. I do not insist upon this because it is in many cases real hardship to be deprived of ones cup of tea or coffee at breakfast. You may also eat raw toma- toes, sliced cucumbers, radishes or crosses in season with your breakfast, but you must omit oil from the salad dressing.
 Suitable Clothing.
 After breakfast, rain or shine, you must exercise. If possible take a good long walk-and before you go forth upon this walk let me beseech you to loosen your corsets if you have been in the de- plorable habit of wearing them tightly laced-and to provide yourself with large, easy, broad-souled shoes coming well up about your ankles. Never mind how they lock- get shoes at least two sizes larger than any you have ever worn hitherto with flat heels. If your heart fails you think of the immortal Trilby and those heeless. large and easy shoes of hers and be comforted. Begin by walk of two miles-get into the coun- try if you possibly can, if not city parla is the next best thing-go to some place where at this relatively early hour you can walk for exercise only and without regard for the conventlonalities of fash ionable streets.
 Keep your mouth closed while walk ing and learn to breathe, if you have not yet acquired the habit, from the dia- phragm-deep breathing, as it is called. Is consists in drawing the breath deeply and slowly. By this process a great deal more oxygen is taken into the lungs, and it is pure oxygen we are looking to as a great factor in our treatment for obes- ity. Deep breathing has a most wonder full effect in hardening the muscles of the abdomen also and in decreasing it's size. IOu VIII SeI BuIcI SlI away lIOni Ilc dusty and too often filthy streets, which is another argument for the country and the parks. Rising at z, breakfasting about s, you should be at home again by II and about your ordinary occupa- tion. Luncheon should consist of fruit, toast, eggs in any form, underdone meats and almost any vegetable which does not contain starch. For example, peas. potatoes, corn and beans are all starchy, so you must give them up, but you still have varied and delightful menu in fruits. salads. cabbage. toma- toes, cucumbers, egg plants, turnips, squash. You need not fear starvation.
 It Is Encouraging to Weigh Often.
 Weigh yourself twenty-four hours af- ter you begin this treatment and you will find you have already lost flesh. If you can ride horseback do so by all means, and for getting rid of flesh about the hips there is no exercise so effective as bicycling If you have no horse and no wheel there is nothing for it but walk ing and gymnastics You can accom- plish the same results; the process may not be quite so diverting, but you will succeed if you will be but persistent. Bodily exercise is of the greatest impor- tance in the obesity cure, and if you will exercise courageously you will have no wrinkles where the flesh was, and they are enemies to good looks. An hour or two of brisk exercise in the afternoon practically about the same restrictions in the choice of food for dinner. If you are in the custom of drinking wine for dinner choose either a light claret or white wine. You must not drink either champagnes or any sweet wines or liquors; you may drink little black cof- fee after dinner but you must eat no sweets at desert. In place of massage, which is, despite all protests to the con trary, an aid to flesh forming, once each day rub your arms, your cheeks, and the soft flesh under the chin brsk1y. but not so forcibly as to bruise, and afterwards apply the following excellent tonic To- ton prescribed by Dr. James and in- dorsed by the celebrated hygienist, Mo- min as wonderfully efficacious for pre- venting the formation of wrinkles:
 Lotion for Preventing the Formation of
 Wrinkles.
 Rose Water.... ............... .EoV SFdilIiieS Chick Milk of almonds 30 grammos Sulphate of aluminium.... grammes
 Dissolve thoroughly and filter; keep in stoppered bottles.
 Keep a record of your weight. You can easily regulate the decrease Tn flesh, not only by your diet, but by the exercise you take. Of course it is understood that once in twenty-four hours you take a full bath and scrub as heretofore ad- viSed.