The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23
MELTING FLESH.
HOW TO TAKE 1T OFF AT THE
RATE OF FOUR POUNDS A WEEK.
The Professional Trainer Says
Women Are Too Much Given to
Taking Their Exercise By Watch
ing Thin Women Ride and BOWL,
and They Only Diet BY Theory.
But Mrs. conrady really did it!

Wnen she HrSl went TO Inc trainer, ne
gave her small encourage l.4ent. :.
sisted that he had never yet seen the wo-
man VINO mad The strength of purpose and
force of will to persist in a thorough,
Well-marked-out course of training.
FRAMING, said ne, means nothing
but hard work; nay, more to be really
effective, II has got to mean over-worh;
nothing but genuine over-Work viii re-
Quce the nesn, ana that is just what no
woman viii rellglously hold herself 10.
1t $ nard enough for man. Why, trainers
OF pugliists almost have 10 resort TO brute
force at times TO keep their men up to the
work and down to the diet, with all that
is depending upon it,
''Oh, yes; 1 constantly train men down;
at the rate sometimes of four pounds
week; l have trained myself down at
that ratio. But did you ever see wo-
man Tram? l Will tell you how she does
it. Let us say, for instance, that she
starts in with bowling. For a few morn
tremendously cocky over it; then she be-
gins to gradually ease up, and invariably
ends by sitting around to watch the thin
woman bowl. Now that is the way nine
stout women out of ten, yes ninety-nine
out of a hundred train. The very tastes
and disposition that made her take on
flesh in the beginning will keep her fat
to the end. On, you needn't look an
noyedl You may talk about your fine
women, and refer to their embonpoint;
call them fat.
MY experience has been the same with
the wheel. Last spring a man brought his
daughter to me, a girl OF II years OF age
who weighed over POO pounds. She learned
to ride the bicycle perfectly, and if she
had been my daughter she would not be
weighing more, than $50 pounds. But
what does she do? She gets on her wheel
occasionally and rides up and down the
boulevard a few times, gets tired and
goes home.
PROPER DRESS FOR TRAINING.
Just make note of the stout woman
as she starts out on her ride, nouriShlnS
the vain delusion that she is working her
way toward Sylph-like proportions. There
she goes in her spick and span shirt waist,
smart hat and fresh, cool face-and she
will come back looking the same way,
too; she wouldn't come back at all if she
didn't. Well, did you ever see man
come in from an exercise in real training?
There is nothing spick and span about
him, can assure you You know, in the
first place, there must be profuSe perspir-
alton, or there is no appreciable loss of
flesh.
"a man who has really made up his
mind to reduce his flesh, puts on wooden
stockings, heavy underwear, thick knick-
erbockers sweater and a soft felt hat.
Then he starts for q twenty-five or thirty
mile ride at as high a rate of speed as
the law will allow, and he doesn't let up
an instant until, dripping and dilapida ted.
he IS back at his home, where he strips
/ off his clothes and is rubbed or rubS
himself down, proud with the conscious
ness that ne has worked off at least one
more pound of the too solid flesh
The point Of the WOODEN clothing is
just this. Suppose, for instance, the back
of yonr hand is covered with perspira-
ten. So long as you do not wipe it off,
no more FORMS since the pores are effec-
ruahy closed: but as rapidly as you re-
move it, more appears. Now the wooden
constantly takes up the Precipitation,
so that tiny streams are continually eX-
uding from every pore.
CAN WOMEN DIET?
"By the way. did you ever see, wo-
man diet? She always starts in bravely
CROUCH, but just watch her In few
days you will find her sneaking a little
potato onto her plate; nipping a small
piece of bread here a bat of cake there.
a spoonful of sweets somewhere else. L
used to get great amusement in detecting
a woman of really heroic proportions
mentally well as physically, at these
'on stiff diet She unfortunately had to
off Mate at the head of her own table,
and though 1 am sure she would walk up
10 the cannon's mouth without tiinching,
lutely incapable of standing her ground
against an innocent little pudding In
front of her. She indeed metaphor4ca1ly
turned her back on the dessert altogether
the first few days: then she began help
ing herself a teaspoonful at a time, and
ended of course by eating about three
times as much of it as any one at the
table. No, women are strong, capable
creatures But when it comes to suft1-
Gent self-denial and strength of will to
reduce ones weight fifty pounds, l have
yet to find the woman who viii come
stif1y up to the mark, backed though she
may be by the proverb!al feminine van
ity in goodly measure
THE VICTORY WON.
Mrs. Conrady left the trainer a sadder,
wiser womal but with a determined look
in her eye. She knew there had been
women who had achieved great results
in the direction of becoming beautifully
less, the professional trainer to the con-
trary, and she made up her mind with
the lone stone'' to vindicate her sex and
improve her figure. Wooden stockings
and underwear, knickerbockers (under
her bicycle skirt and sweater all went
on and earnest work and genuine pers-
piration began. She wasn't exactly rid
ing for pleasure, but her reward came
when each week the scales tolled off four
pounds more vanished into space. In the
meantime, too, she became quite math-
eanaticdan, especially in the art of divid-
ing and subtracting by fours, looking for
ward to that final day of tr1umph-whdch
rnaterialiZed in the space of three months
when she could present her mdntrncZed
figure to the somewhat contemptuous