The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-31

Necessary--No Water With Meals.
 This is the season of the year when
 the person who is anxious to lose flesh
 may do it with a minimum of self-de-
 nial and sacrifice. Some privations are 1 necessary but in the spring markets
 there are substitutes for forbidden foods
 that are not to be found at other times
 of the year, especially in the winter.
 Every system of reducing flesh for ! bids it's disciples to eat certain things. | These are forbidden as rigidly as poi son would be to a person who had no
 suicidal plans and was trying to keep
 in good health. Comprehensivcly sta
 ted the forbidden articles are starches and sugar, In vegetables these cover peas, potatoes, beets carrots, squash and lima beans.
 Included in the list are also all kinds
 of bread, pastry and confections, and sweets of any kind unless they happen
 to be made of saccharine instead of su-
 gar; and unfortunately the preserves
 and similar articles prepared with sac
 charine are so expensive as to be prac-
 ticallY beyond the means of any but the
 wealthy They are protected by 6
 warning like that the Japanese butler
 who wanted a job put in one of the
 newspapers: None but the rich need
 apply"
 If person of great fortitude and ca
 pablo of self-denal in a high degree
 should be desirous of getting thin in
 very short time, there is one method of
 diet by which he or she could do it
 without the least possible doubt, It is
 summoned up by the physician who al
 ways prescribes it as "Beefsteak and spinach"
 The effects of this diet are so wonder full that it is worth while to describe it, even though it is a little too rigid for the average man or woman to under take, Practically, the only food to be taken for the month or more that one continues this diet is the meat and the vegetable mentioned For breakfast when such a meal is likely to be unsa- worry, toast and tea or milk or if the pa tent if not suffering from Indigestion coffee may also be taken, Saccharine must in any case be substituted for su- gar. At the other meals only beefsteak, spinach. butter and toast are allowed.
 This diet must be adhered to strictly for at least one month. Then the won derful effects will have begun to show themselves, and how great the effect will be afterward depends on the length of time the diet Is continued.
 Just now spinach and beefsteak' form the motto of more men and wo- men than ever before If a young wo- man finds that her complexion Is blotchy she may go to a noted skin specialist. but the chances are ten to one that he will say 10 her the mysteri- ous words, "beefsteak and spinach" If a man or woman is too stout, according to his own or somebody elses idea, and he or she goes to the doctor, he will probably say the same thing-"beef- steak and spinach" It is not only a diet that is adapted to the weakest but it is wonderful also in it's i power of reducing flesh,
 There have been cases in which a | rigid adherence to this diet with a cer- | tain amount of exercise has taken thir- | ty pounds within six weeks off person | who tried it. The effect on digestion is | in itself wonderful. The French say | spinach sweeps the stomach" With | rather underdone beefsteak it forms a. which has results in all | cases. That diet is becoming practi- 2ally the only prescription which the skin doctors of this city prescribe for women who have blotchy complexons | IS the result of indigestion.
 With this diet there are of course oth- 1T features of living to be observed. There should be for instance, no eating If any kind between meals. Nor should water be taken with meals. No liquid lnless it be glass of white or red vine for persons with whom that agrees, should be attempted if the diet s to have it's full effect. But between meals, in the course of the tWenty-four nours at least two quarts of water l houd be drunk. If more can be taken he diet is going to have so much better fleet.
 or course there is no need of any such evere dieting merely to reduce flesh. That may be done without trouble if he person who is at this work will give ID a few articles of diet And when he markets are as good as they are at present., there is little trouble in finding ubstitutes for whatever is given up.
 The list of vegetables that one may | at with impunity includes, for in tance, string beans, asparagus spi- aCh, all kinds of salads, corn and oys- CT plant. Some persons think that l eets may be eaten so long as they are aten with vinegar. But there is no eason why anybody should starve or ven lack enough food on a diet like his. There is no prohibition on fruits nd rhubarb unless it be cooked with DO much sugar, may also be taken with npunfty. If boiled without sugar it nay readily be eweetened afterward 'ith saccharine This ample diet of egetables is supplemented by practi- al freedom of choice in the matter of leats. There is none forbidden unless
 be taken stuffed or covered With read.
 The amount of exercise taken during | eting time is of course highly impor- mt. The more exercise, the greater