Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-04-21

It Is Almost Invariably on the Subject of
Retaining Youthful Grace-Dieting the
Only Safe Method of Reducing Flesh
Use of Drugs for the Purpose Dangerous
1t has been said truthfplly that
when two women who know each 9TH
er moderately well are left together
their conversation will promptly turn
on the subject of flesh. How not To
grow stouter and how to get thinner
are the phases of the questions with
which their talk is most likely to deal.
Diet, exercise and even medicines
manufactured expressly for the pur-
pose have long been recognized meth
DDS of keeping flesh down or getting
rid of it after its increase has been toe
great At least one of these is known
to be unfailing in its effect. Diet will
reduce the man orwoman most natural
ly addicted to flesh as we'll as possessed
of it through indulgences that increase
this tendency. But diet is based on
perfectly natural laws and makes eX-
acting demands that must be satisfied
Somebody said with a seriousness
worthy Of a greater subject that flesh
more than anything else in the world
showed that nothing was to be accom-
plished in this life without a CORE
spending sacrifice. If work or saeri-
flee is the secret of everything in this
life, it is particularly true Of dieting.
The process is therefore unpopular,
just as walking is when a hanson is at
hand. No substitute, however, was
ever known to accomplish the same re-
suit. DO you think. doctor, asked
woman of a physician, "fhat these
medicines to reduce people would do
me any harm if l stopped eating
sweets and starehy food, drank very
little wine and took a great deal of ex-
ercise? Would it be dangerous then
for me to try those medicinesT'
IF you are willing to do all those
things was his answer, st will not
be necessary to take any medicine.
You will get thin enough without
them" The physician explained af-
terward that he knew what she meant.
Taking the medicines was merely in
tended as an excuse Tor ignoring the
diet or for following it very carelessly.
The popularity Of these remedies
for reducing flesh" he said, comes
entirely from the fact that the people
who take them are trying to keep
from doing without the things which
they know 1t is important for them to
give up. So they seek for every eX-
euse, Already the situation has been
made easy enough for them Bread Of
q very palatable kind is to be had now
that is far less fattening than bread
used to be, and some of it, tf eaten in
moderate quantities, is not in the least
fattening. Preserves made with a
substitute for sugar can be had. and
no person need find it now necessary
to go without sweetening in tea or cof-
fee. But they want the work made
still easier. Last week an intelligent
woman came to me with a story about
a paste made in Paris. 1t was some
what in the nature of an ointment,
and could be rubbed into the skin. 1t
was said to have wonderful effect in
reducing flesh. Tell me. DOCTOR she
asked can l use itY l did rot see the
stuff, and | could have no idea what
the elements were, but l told her that
it would do as much toward making
her thin as rubbing cologne on her
hands Harmful? Possibly: although
it is doubtful if the results could ever
have been serious, as enough of the
stuff would not have been absorbed.