The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-21

Reducing Flesh.
From the Boston Advertiser
EVERY woman'is just as young as she
looks and any woman can continue to
figure.
The lost figure is one that once was
round OF waist, supple and fiat of Shout
uer, narrow OF back, wide of chest and
shapely OF hip, the figure of youth. that
! py nigh living and lazy ways you have
ahowed TO grow thick and broad with
pent shoulders. and long head poked
forward, and the measurements in
creased at rate of 10 inches all
/ around.
A genuine figure of fun, that at 80 is
outhved already in half the women you
meet and at 40 depends entirely on cor
sets Tor support, is the terror of the
most ingenious dressmakers, the de-
SPAR or the photographers and the
cross on ones own life. It's the sort of
lumpfsh, dumpy, knotty, absurd figure
tnat makes pretty woman look old
before her time, avoid long mirrors
ana drive her friends to wondering how
creature so tall and erect at is. at sc
is half a foot shorter
A foreigner would attribute this to the
general instability of all things Amer
lean, but the woman herself is quite
WITHIN the range of redemption. At
least, that is what she hears at the va
rious women's gymnasiums. where the
pulIdlng up of figures is now a distinct
and important branch of the athletic
business.
Most of our patrons" said a TAN.
prawny, blue-eyed Swedish woman who
was In charge of the rescue work. bet
ter known as the figure department
or popular gymnasium, range in age
between so and So / never refuse an
applicant, for it's really never too late
to mend a broken figure. Numbers of
ulgnlned grandmammas, with recollec-
tons of their girlhoods waist lines.
come for their training and instruction
three times week, and it's an impress
sive sight to see a class of % sober
side matrons, the least of whom tips
the beam at 175, lined up in Knockers,
fiat slippers and sweaters, to learn the
new movement
The system consists of a. series of l5
movements. by which we guarantee to
reduce enlarged abdomens, restore long
lost waist lines, brace up the shoulders.
strengthen and reduce the bust, and
pare down the biggest hips. This is
done by taking off the overweight of
flesh in one place and putting it in the
thin arms and legs, where symmetry
demands is. and by picking up long
muscles and knitting them back into
places until, without the corset, the
figure shows self-sustaining and firm.
No woman under a course of treat |
ment for her figure is allowed to eat |
potatoes, white and hot bread, any rich +.
er sweet than pudding and never pas
try. Green vegetables, fruit, all the |
meats desired, butter, sugar in her tea |
ana coffee, and gluten bread are advo-
Gated, and the attack in reduction is
made first against the overdeveloped
abdomen and shelf-like hips, that worry
q woman more than all the other short
of her figure put together
The patient is made to lie fat on her
back on the hard, unsympathetic floor
hold tightly to some fixed object, In her
own room bed leg is the thing, and
hen lift her legs from the floor straight
I'D TO the perpend GUAR.
when she can do this 20 times hand
she will begin to feel the mus
les of her stomach and abdomen, and,
exercise after this fashion
caves one blown and exhausted, IL
'ught at once to be followed by a daily
ive-mile sprint on an indoor bicycle.
ITS the pedal work that begins to
,ull flesh off the hips, and as any one
AN see, provided a woman has suffi-
lent space in her room for an elastic
xercise and home bicycle, she can
AIRY on her course of reduction at
ome. But she must work at the move
nents every morning and at least one
our In the afternoon, work. too, with
er windows wide open, and keep at
he exercises an hour at time. being
areful to finish them at least 40 min ,
ties before eating.
From the bicycle trip she must go 4
traight to the elastic exerciser, a neat
tile affair that hangs on the wall. and
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