Evening star., 1900-11-21
EXERCISE, DIET AND SOAP
A NEW COMBINATION TO RESTORE
SYMMETRICAL PROPORTIONS.
Any Woman Can Try This Simple Way
to Rid Herself of Super
HuOus Flesh.

Give me a woman who is not the slave
| Of the bon-bon, soda water and chicken
| pate habit. and be her weight what 1t may.
| I'll guarantee not only to rid and cure her
| Of superfiuous flesh. but make her as lean
and healthy a hound in the process"
That Is what the woman in the panne
velvet gown said to her friend when they
met while out calling the other day.
| The friend looked reproachfully over her
| triple chns at the panne velvet gown and
| remarked Il suppose that's joke, or. IL
| you are going to advance some such advice
| as skipping rope. running carpet sweeper,
| Or walking twice day to the top of ten
| story building, please don't. I've tried all
| those schemes and grew fat on them, as
| we'll as losing n good digestion and lots Of
| valuable time. Remedies for women Of
! your waist measure, which l should guess
| to be about twenty-five inches. can hardly
| apply to me. l doubt II you ever weighed
| more than hundred and thirty-f1ve pounds
| in all your life
Two years ago." solemnly averred the
paine velvets owner. Il tipped the beam
| at 179 pounds with the brightest prospect of
| running rapidly up to the 900 mark. I had
| a long line Of fat grandmothers ahead Of
| me. and there was not flesh eras1ng
scheme that had not tried with discour-
| aging results. l was on the point OF resign
| Ing every hope of preserving my girihood's S
| throat and waist line when my family ply
| sician guaranteed to cure me.
| Frugal Diet.
"Of course he regulated my diet. Excess
| sive flesh Is invariably the consequence Of
| digestive irregularity, though one may not
| be sensible of malassimilation, and down on
a piece of paper he set list of foods 1
| could eat, with equally careful cata-
| 1cgue of those that were to be avoided
! h1 Inrc hr1 fnnS
| fried foods. grapes. peaches, bananas
| plums, beets, carrots, ground artichokes,
| oatmeal, green vegetables cooked in cream
| and water with meals were all absolutely
| prohibited. One cup Of coffee with milk in
| it, some whole wheat bread, one egg and an
| orange was what he gave me for my
| breakfast, alternated with fish, toast and
| an apple when l cried out for change At
luncheon l allowed to eat eggs or fish,
| or wee bit Of roast fowl with BUTTERFLIES
| bread: green salad minus Oil or cream in
| the dressing and plain boiled green vege-
| table, seasoned with salt. For dinner 1
| took clans, oysters, fish without sauce.
green vegetables, salad dressed with salt
| and vinegar a scrap Of pretty well done
| oranges for dessert. I was allowed celery,
| radishes, olives, salt fish, plenty of gluten
! bread without butter, little wine. hut not
a crumb of cake, not a sugar plum, not d
| drop of soup and not taste Of water.
| "One and a half or two hours after each
| one Of my frugal meals 1 was told to
| drench my chastened stomach with long
draughts Of perfectly pure water. neither
| cold nor hot. but at a temperature Of about
| 6S, and under pain of increasing weight l
was directed to walk four miles a day, a
| mile If I liked, but not a half mile
| less, as hoped to be saved from fat mid
die age.
Regular Exercise.
The conditions looked hard, but the doc
tor was firm. and l was ambitious for
| twenty-two-inch waist so, after a little
| futile pleading for softer terms of self-de-
nial, l went seriously into training. 1 was
| advised to take my exercise in the morning.
and 1 agreed Every day, rain or shine,
| and in spite Of clamorous committees and
| tyrannical dressmakers, rose from the
| breakfast table, arrayed in my short skirt,
| and tramped off the four miles. Coming
| home l sat down and spent fifteen minutes
drinking a full pint and a half of water
that had been boiled and set away in a bot
| tie to cool, or l took Kissengen one day and
Eichy the next.
by my watch I timed myself for the po-
| tations due after luncheon and dinner, and
1 am proud to say 1 never missed the two
| brimming goblets.
A Beautiful Reduction.
! After two months of this treatment 1 be-
gan to feel distinctly simmer. On weigh
| ing, found had lost only five pounds my
| gowns were tight OF fit as ever and my
| chin as richly luxuriant. That was a dis
| couraging outlook, but I grasped again at
| hope when the doctor bade me go on. 1t
will take you all Of a year and a half he
| said. to get rid not only Of the accumulated
| fat but to correct the tendency of your d.
gestive system to convert four-fifths of
| everything you eat into loose masses of fat
| Il took heart Of grace; tedious as the pro-
| cess was, kept on, and now I feel free to
say that the reason nine-tenths of the stout
women fail IN their endeavors to remove
| their flesh Is because they demand imme-
| date rewards for their efforts. and finding
| they do not become appreclably thinner In
a month or six weeks, relapse to a normal
| diet or grasp at some new device for reduc-
| ton.
II grimly determined would see the cure
| out. and my determination was strength
| ened, first by the doctors assurance that
| the slow process Of reduction is the one
| and only one that neither Injuries the di-
gestion nor wrinkles the skin. very Sc
| we're diet never fails to tell on a woman
| just as unavoidable starvation does; over
exercise makes her look hard and haggard,
and the continuous use Of hot or cold baths
will permanently injure the incest nerves
and Smoothest skin. I've seen all those
methods tried, in fact I've tried some of
them myself, so I stood firm for my daily
| walk and my frugal but abundant meals,
beside" and here the voice dropped to
whisper, Il used a reduction soap with
never to be forgotten effects
A French Cure.
What do you mean?' answered the
wearer Of the fur coat, in a hushed voice.
why, have you never heard of the
French pomade that the models and the
ballet girls in Paris and some Of our own
actresses use? Really, it is wonderful I've
friend on the stage, an awfully busy wo-
man, who, during the season, is obliged to
eat the most nouriShing food in order to
keep her strength up, and yet manages
never to let her figure run out of bounds
When I sighed over her luck in escaping
flesh, she said 1t wasn't luck at all, but
soap suds, and she gave me cake of her
pomade to try Just a plain white roll,
done up in tnfoil, looking for all world like
Neufchatel cheese Night and morning
I was to make a lather from this and for
five minutes massage 1t gently on my chin,
my upper arm and my hips, where the soft
flesh collects in spite Of one
Il was directed to keep the lathsr moist
for some minutes. and then wash 1t off, and
in month look for results. In less than a
week, 1 give you my word. l. could see that
the flesh going UoinR and WI hen fU0