The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-07-05
A ROUND WAIST
AND SLENDER HIPS
CFrom Chicago Tribune.)

woman when she read that hips would
not be worn this summer.
But those who were ''in the know"
merely laughed and said nothing.
Well they understood that hips were
easily controlled, and well, indeed did
they know that the matter of hips or
no hips was one to be decided by each
individual.
Said a New York society woman, on
hearing the dictum: Il shall be rid of
my hips inside of six weeks, and, if
am persistent, l shall be rid of them
in less time"
One of the first beauty opponents in
the world-an old-tim beauty doctor
a friend Of the famous DR.. Banting,
once said that she would undertake
to reduce hips at the rate of three
pounds a week, and that in months
time, the hips would be so much
smaller that the clothing would sag
and the waist be too slender for the
gown.
1t is too bad that hips have gone out
of style, but it must be confessed that
they were not pretty. That distressing
walk, known as waggle, is the result
of big hips; and when this degenerates
into a waddle it is still worse.
Those who try to reduce the hips by
the rotary movement, the wagging of
the body from side to side, and the
bending backward and bending for
ward run some little risk.
1t would be a good thing if every
woman could be endowed with a
knowledge of how long to make her
hour of exercise. 1t is certainly impos-
sible to lay down any particular law
which shall apply to every case.
CstO of he
known as fat, a woman in the 200
pounds, should exercise lightly at first.
If she takes off her corset, or loossens
it and bends toward, as fast as she can,
twice, she is out of breath. Then if
she SWAPS her body to the right and to
the left, she is tired out
For the fat woman this is about all
the exercise that can be taken at one
time.
With this exercise she should diet
For breakfast let her eat a dish of
fruit ard take two slices of lightly but
tered toast and a single cup of coffee.
She can eat all the fruit she wants and
can take anything from grape fruit to
berries, and from figs to prunes. But
she should net take anything else eX-
cept her toast.
A faintness will often follow the sud-
den dieting, and the fat woman will
think herself about to die. Let her fear
not She will not starve.
In Ireland during the famine there
was a saying that no one ever starved
to death with bunch of fat on the calf
of the leg.
1t is a fact that the body when de-
prived of food, can live a long time
upon its tissues, and fat person well
supplied with tissues viii not receive
bodily injury from going without food
for days. Cases of those who have fast
ed are on record with period of fast
extending up to thirty days.
But the fat woman need not fast
thirty days, nor one day. For lunch
she can eat eggs or chops, with cup
of tea or coffee, and she can have toast.
In her diet. noon and night, there
can be vegetables, fruit and toast. And
she can have meat once day.
Surely no one ought to complain of
that.
The fat woman's exercise must keep
pace with her dieting. 1t will do no
good to go without food unless, at the
same time, she will take a sufficient
amount of exercise to reduce the fat.
Getting the fat started" is what
they call it in London, where the
beauty doctors are all at work lower
ing the abdomen and reducing the hips
OF the English 400.
The first pound, they will all tell
you, is the most difficult, but after that
is once lost the rest comes easy.
An exercise for the fat woman is the
flying exercise. To do this she must |
stand upon one foot, balance herself, |
and hold wand aloft in both hands.
The wand is a simple gymnastic in !
strument. 1t can be purchased in any |
shop dealing in gymnastic supplies, or
it can be manufactured at home from |
simple materials. 1t is a long, straight |
heavy pole, with enough strength to |
bear the stress of the work and weight |
that is put upon it.
There is probably not one fat woman |
in a hundred who can bear all her !
weight upon one leg. Her ankle will |
turn; her foot will give out; her leg |
will cramp; she cannot keep her bal |
ance. 1t is to her an ordeal.
How many slender women can stand |
upon one foot. Get out your footstools, |
we women of slender build, and try. |
Rest your weight upon one foot. lift the |
other, drawing up the foot as high as /
possible.
If you have no other instrument at |
hand take a cane and lift it high over |
your head. This gives the body bal |
ance. The wand is the instrument to
use, but in the absence of a wand a
walking stick win do, or a broomstick,
anything that is of equal weight from
one end to the other.
It is doubtful if a fat woman could
do this, but she can try. 1t will not |
injure her to make the attempt. She
win probably feel faint, as though she
were tearing her heart from her body
and ripping out her lungs at the same
time. But the little exercise will not
really hurt her.
The fat woman, after she has exer-
cised, will want to take a bath. . She
really ought to do so, for she has been
using unaccustome muscles and the
chances are that she ~ be stiff if she
does not take the necessary precau-
tons.
The thin woman, o. the woman of
medium build. who is exercising to keep
her figure down or to round her waist
a little, should also take a bath after
exercise. She may grow stiff if she
does not do SO, or she may have
strained some of her muscles. which
need just this amount of coddling.
At all events the bath at this junc-
ture is q good thing
The slender woman can battle in any
way she pleases. A water bath fol-
lowed by massage is a good thing for
her. But her fat sister cannot get into
a tub Of water after a violent exercise
For her there must be a dry mas
sage with rough towels and a sponge
path, not cold by any means, but as
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