The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-27

was that she ate for a period of three
months only tomatoes dressed with
vinegar. inc occasionally a little po-
tato salad saturated with the same sour
condiment. These stories were undoubt-
eddy exaggerated. but her cure was
strenuous enough to lose her about %
pounds. When she r~eappeared as re
dora in October. 1883. IL was
ing to the audience TO observe tne
change in her figure. h was again
slender and graceful, and almost fauIl-
less specimen of feminine physique.
Her beauty. however, was never the
same after the severe strain by whlch
she recovered the lines of her ngure.
One OBJECT of these reductions Is mat
invariable haggardness wnich comes
from the long lines made by the SKIN
when the flesh has been removed. 80
she was never as beautiful after the re-
duction, although she was never again
threatened with excessive stoutness.
When she played in this city last WIN
ter her figure was still slender ana
symmetrical. But the ordeal through
which she passed to accomplish this
change is believed by many OF her
friends To have weakened her constitu-
ton so Seriously that she is at present
unable to struggle with the disease
which has kept her I'LL so long. She IL
still a comparatively young woman
and has always led a healthy life. Her
SuliliiltlS III h'A h'i''
athletics to a considerable extent. AS
a swimmer she is much better imam
the average non-professlonal.
Margaret MatheT was thought by
some of the persons in her company 10
have caused her death by some reduc-
ton remedy which she was taking in
large quantities to decrease the threat
ening excess of flesh. She was not on
her last appearance in this city any
stouter than she had been six years
before. But she feared the time was
coming when, like Lady Jane in Pa
tience," she could sing. There VIII be
too much of ms in the oming by ana
by" So she took the medicines which
some persons believed had an erect
on the chronic disease from which she
was suffering and caused her death.
Amelia Summerville, whose case is
historic, has apparently escaped all evil
effects of her heroic course of reduc-
ton. Nine. Melba keeps her flesh down
by avoiding all sweets and pastry. Thls
has been her rule for several years. ana
is done as much To preserve her voice
as her figure. During performances she
sometimes sips sweetened water to re-
fresh her throat. Dorothy Morton. who
is growing so stout that her future ca
reer will be brief unless she is able to
get back her girlish figure. has strug-
gled without success against flesh n
tries vigorously every method or re-
duction. Marcella Sembrich, several
years ago, grew quite stout and re-
duced herself under the direction of DR..
Schwenninger. and to-day diets very
strictly. Virginia Harmed, who grew
stout at one time, eats only meat and
toast and drinks only tea during those
periods she dedicates to reducing her
flesh. Rose Coghlan, about five years
ago. repeated Fanny Davenports ef-
fort on a less heroic scale, but was
careful to explain she reduced herself
not because she thought she looked
too large but because she felt too heavy
for comfort. Nine. Calve To reduce her
flesh takes a French medicine i'm which
she has unbounded faith. As she is a
small eater and an abstemious drinker.
there is very little variation in her
weight from year to year.
There is scarcely a woman conspicu-
Gus on the stage who is not more or less
actively concerned in keeping herself
May Irwin. Alice Atherton or Mabel
Fenton. They know how valuable a
feature of their stage work their avoir-
dupois is, and they would not lose q
pound Of il. May Irwin has been for
the past 10 years quite as stout as she
is now, and has never once troubled
herself about trying to train down
Lillian Russell varies very little In
weight. complains about the unfortun.
ate features of a tendency to flesh, and
lives on sweets. Pauline Hall 10 years
ago devoted one summer 10 getting
thin, and has never since been trou-
bled. The bicycle did wonders for her
and she now regards herself as perma.
nently beyond the danger of excessive
weight-New York sun.