The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-01
DIET us FOR The WOMEN
llSslalnr1ls Cultivate Digestion as Regular
as Swiss GIOcsWoTk.
AID VARIED
sNANY3
N.
RECIPES.
Every Woman Is Earnestly Eating
S8AlonR Som Special Course Mapped
s&S$s.Ont by Her Doetor-A Dtct for
sSSAnemic wo~ncn-Fruis ana Milk
gsaS 0nly-The Meat Course.

ssSs womcn-Fruii ana MILK
ss& 0nly-Fhe Meat Course.
Do you diet, or do you not diet? That
us b question every woman is asking
other member of her sex. If you
s. admit that you do not diet, but APP
SpeaSe your healthy appetite ON the ordi-
mary good things the gods provide, then
your kind enthusiastic aud diet follow
tstng feminine friends will eplain that to
Give happily and wholcsomely, to i've
long and decently within the bounds of
Fashion you really must put yourself on
isSome sort of food regime.
NUMEROUS AND VARIED.
There are at least three hundred and
3sixty-five different menues prescribed
as many different authorities on
q Meath, and from this ample variety ev-
cry N is nj liberty to choose the
4 course Of meals that may seem most
nearly to suit her case and her prefer
ences. No matter what your %ailincnt
may be there Is n diet outlined as It's
corrective, all the way from recurring
appendicitis to early wrinkles and both /
eIEomely numerous grey hairs. Super
abundant flesh is the chief reason for
practice of self-deninl in eating.
THE MEAT COURSE.
Nothing takes of fatty tissues rs q
Diet explained the ma who waved
away the cream jug and sugar bowl
and dropped one slice of lemon In her
tea. Sweets, starchy foods and grease
are the prime causes of double chins
and Increasing waist measures. Any
one can lose fifteen or twenty pounds
a month by subsistinE exclusively on
1 meat n green vegetables. Quite Il
dozen women of my acquaintance have
trimmed on forty pounds I'm ten weeks
on this diet. In place of sweets we eat
fruits, but breads, potatoes. etc, are
utterly abjured, though we never per-
NIT ourselves to suffer from hunger.
Chops. steak, eggs, oranges and u
sugarless cup of cafe noir will make up
such a dietnrian's breakfast, with, per-
haps, n bit of parched toast. The
meats are varied with vegetable salads.
Il boiled green things aud more fruit at
Z other meals, and by keeping close to the
ssietter OF such a diet and taking u heal
thy amount OF exercise the flesh is
n bound to disappear.
FOR ANAEMIC WOMEN.
NJ SBut, bless You, that is not the only
II Q course. I've seen some wonderful
Ii reduced women who added to the meat
sard Vegetables all the butter. cheese
y milk and cream they desired, but YOU
So y understand that n diet depends
EsYWhoily on the special uilment you wish
$40 correct. If you are anaenic meat is
the thing and what Samson achieved
IL" 49, ~ oOiiG Vi III uSS Is IDOL IL
circumstance to the power that Is In
ga we'll broilcd chop. Women who want
SGito get up a color and who suffer from
insomnia eat the meat course. Lily Leh-
man wnen she was recovering from her
81 nerVOu prostration used to eat as many
as SIX mug slices of rare beef at one
meal, but it regained her voice for her.
FRUIT AND MILK ONLY.
That's all very We'll" chirped n pink
eng White little person among the sofa
pillows, but our theory is that the
erring human liver is at the root of all
evil. Just try my doctors fruit diet.
1t consists OF fruit and milk only until
dinner time. when, for that one meal,
you can eat all and everything you de
sire. l drink nearly three quarts Of
milk a day with grapes, ranges ap
pies, ETC., and absolutely nothing else till
z p. IN. and rejoice in Il digestion like
Swiss clock work. This positively will
N put he flesh on the barest bones, and
1 90 Know ever so many women who
eat nothing but oranges and nuts. They
tell me for a long life and perfect preSer-
walton of beauty there is nothing like
II. The pioneer Orange eater was a
New Yorker who outlived her genera
ton by a quarter of a entury. At So
she possessed the bloom of thirty, and
at a hundred and two when she was
killed In n railway accident, there was
not a grey hair in her head and she had
"a skin like a young matrOn. The Prin-
cess Of Wales and Mrs. Lanetry have
Tor years been known to follow this
diet. They never, of course. touch
sweets or cereals"
CONFLICTING VIEWS.
"Just knock n ball round the links i'm
a. w~ell-fought four somes and see how
a plate of oatmeal will affect YOU"
y broke in the expert golfer. I'VE make
g. point of eating oatmeal, cracked
+ Wheat. brown bread, roasted potatoes,
bacon, fish and eggs No butter or
sHeets are allowed, but If you join the
golfers and leading bicyclists you will
find they want big bones and muscles
like leather and that's just what starch
land bread gives one
But don't talk to me of meats" in
sisted a new m limping up to the tea
why, If you eat meat long
2enough you'll become as bald as n baby,
ana a victim of out corns, not to speak
cor umatis Green food is the only
food with English aerated bread. not
Seyen an egg is permitted II no sweets
&Of course"
(which seems to he the only point we
are all united on" inte-rupted the first
rising. "But at any rate. ev-
Sery woman seems earnestly eating along
some special course mapped out by
&hGr doctor. The diets have taken the
pace of medicines and certainly appear
Ito be the outcome of a very natural rc-
action against the extreme flesh or
$leanness. the nerves ard dyspepsia thai
have been undoubtedly engendercd Nv
our over lavish, rich and c worry 4 rno,