The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-12-05
HOW TO LOSE FLESH.
TIE Testimony of One Who Has Suffered
and Been Redeemed.


and Been Redeemed.
IT began after an illness and diet
OF milk-a gradual and persistent ac-
years, until the lines of the figure were
destroyed. proportions married, and the
woman felt her own identity lost.
There was twice as much of her, she
| used to say, as there had been before,
and she did not know how to adapt
herself to her Jew possession. She
felt apologize in her attitude to old
| friends who had not seen her for some
| time, as though when she met them
she must atone for having brought so
much more with her than they had ex-
| pected.
She became, under the weight of her
new responsibility, self-conscious, self
depreciative, sensitive, worried, hope
less and helpless Her taste was
| shocked, her sensibilities wounded.
| There seemed no escape, no remedy.
Her sympathetic friends, too sorry for
her to be truthful, refused to acknowl-
edge any undue increase of size. They
| reasoned against her anxieties with
| false platitudes. and never confessed
her awkwardness. She might have be-
lieved them, but that one day, when
in a summer dress that weighed little,
she tipped the scales at two hundred
and seven. She never forgot the sem
sation.
1t was then she determined to con-
auer herself After much study and
| looking about she determibeu upon d
regimen. She instantly gave uI sugar
in tea or coffee, and milk at any IT, w :.
For two months she took for break
fast, luncheon and dinner only beef
steak and toast, and now and then
spinach and lettuce; always oranges
oranges in plenty. She drank with this
clear coffee or tea. Sometimes she
took claret. She limited the amount
| of water taken through the day to one
quart, or at most three pints. Some
of this she drank hot before or after
meals. Often she squeezed the juice
of lemon in it. When the two months
were over and the flesh had begun to
| diminish she ate other vegetables and
fruit, corn, peaches, celery, but never
any vegetable that grew underground
potatoes. onions, parsnips, turnips
or beets. She never ate-and this was
| her most important rule-she never
ate anything fermenting in character,
any pears, plums, grapes or sweets.
Because bread has a fermenting quail
ity in it, she always toasted it dry.
Pudding she never touched, sauces nor
cake. If any food led to fiatulency in
| E II, L. - + I
to be avoided. BY and by, after the
first few months, she allowed herself
now and then an occasional sweet or
an ice, but never as a habit.
She relied but little upon exercise,
except to walk regularly every day.
| She never rode in a horse car without
stopping to think whether she could
not walk the distance as we'll without
! fatigue. She always, in fact avoided
| fatigue when she could-fatigue lead
| ing to relaxation of the muscles, as
she discovered, and kind of pufiiness
of the flesh. There was then less re-
sistance to fatty formations.
In a year this woman lost forty
pounds, and this without exhausting
herself or submitting her body to vio-
lent tests. Her digestion never was so
perfect, her color and her general
health improved. No wrinkles showed
themselves, the adaptations through
all her system having been gradual
The first few months of the regime
she considers critical 1t is then that
the new habits of the body are being
formed, and self-denial, self-control.
careful guidance, and a rigid sense of
duty are of paramount Importance.
The sufferings are all in the early
stages, and the sufferings then are
only in controlling some appetite for
sweet. After that, self-master be-
comes easy, and with self-mastery an
occasional indulgence leads to no
harm-occasional meaning once in
many nths.-Harper's Bazaar.