The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-22
By Harriet Hubbard Aver.

I care not what specious contrary
methods have been proposed as effica-
cious in the cure of obesity-methOds
that appeal to the easy-going nature
of the woman weighed down mentally
and physically by fat, no regime will
be successful where the farinaceous
and sugary foods are permitted. Deny
yourself also all starchy vegetables,
such as potatoes, beans and peas.
Butter and pork, hot cakes, etc. all
cereals must be blackIisted. You will
not starve; you still have left beef
mutton, fish, poultry and game, salads,
ripe fruits. tomatoes, cucumbers. spin
ach, cabbage, toasted bread, eggs and
lots of other agreeable viands to select
from.
Take real exercise. Get on a bicycle
and swear you will not dismount of
your own volition otherwise you might
be too soon forsworn) until you have
at least done five miles Take in adj
dition to this five or even a ten mile
walk each day. Keep your sleeping
hours within the magic seven-no maps,
no forty winks. Look upon all sweet
wines, beers, etc. as the demon avoir-
dupois in propria persona, and flee
from them as you would the wrath to
come. Learn to drink two or three
glasses of hot water instead of iced
water. Take a hot scrub from head
to feet every day and a cold plunge
after. If you can afford massage sub
nit to what is called professionally
deep massage" You will not need
this treatment for the reduction of
flesh, but it is extremely useful in har-
dening the muscles and preventing the
formation of lines and wrinkles. If
you are not circumstanced so that
massage is feasible learn to manipulate
your face and throat where lines and
fiabbiness are most destructive to
beauty. AS the flesh decreases and
the fat is eliminated from the system
the surface of the skin is apt for a time
until it is accustomed to the change,
to appear dry on the surface. Use the
following lotion to allay this dryness:
Orange-fower water one pint; tine
ture of benzoin, four drains. Add the
orange-fower water very slowly to the
benzoin.
The most encouraging thing to wo-
man plucky enough to literally fight
the tat off is the proof that she is sue
ceeding. The scales are a great slim
illus to renewed effort. and the scales
tell the agreeable story day by day to
the earnest obesity patient.
1t is necessary in order to gauge the
amount Of exercise required for loss
of three or four pounds a week to
know just what the decrease in weight
is. Usually the patient loses several
pounds Give or six) within the first
eight days of the treatment, then as
one settles down to a steady regime
the decrease should be kept at about
three or four pounds a week until the
desired weight is attained. BY this
time the subject has learned the sci
ence by experience and may be trusted
to take certain liberties with the bill of
fare.
A word of warning should be given
on the subject of cathartic medicines
and purgatives as flesh reducers.
Nothing is so destructive to the beauty
and health. To rush the wrong sort
of food through the stomach by the aid
of cat.Iartics is like keeping up a roar
ing fire with soft coal. You will Gre
ate u terrific heat and consume tons
of coal, but you will burn out the best
of stoves