The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06

in any way. The reduction method
of sumnersaulting would, on the other
hand, be extremely injurious to many
women, especially to those inclined to
fairness.
Reduction should be attempted only
under the advice of a physician, ex-
cept in the case of a person who thor
oughly understands the danger CT
overriding. Most people who are af-
flicted with stoutness betray heart
weakness in their breathlessness after
slight exertion. To such any over
amount of exercise is especially bad.
Il have known a woman to use
dumb bells each morning who made
herself very ILL., She got out of a
warm bath and in a bathrobe welded
the bells for half an hour, indulging
in various bending exercises. She con-
tracted a muscular rheumatic affection
in her legs and arms that laid her up
her for several weeks.
Those who are not accustomed to
exercise freely-and women tending to
corpulency never are-should begin
with a gentle form, increased syste-
matically each day and persevered in.
Besides this they must conform their
diet to the rules that govern such
cases. Exercise will not do every
thing. Take for instance the attend
ants in Turkish baths. They exercise
constantly and violently all day in
an over-heated atmosphere, but many
CT them grow stout.
ut is quite true that many per-
sons, women in particular, who do not
eat much gain flesh. But the woman
who grows heavy generally eats far
too much and too often. Many wo-
men never go out to shop without
lndulging in a restaurant luncheon,
and when they reach home they will
probably have tea or cakes or some
other refreshment.
Eating is largely a question of habit
and while I should not advise any wo-
man to diet herself with a view to In
creasing her weight it is quite safe 70
advise all women to eat less if they
wish to become thinner. There are
any number of people to-day who eat
but two meals a day. They are much
healthier, happier and livelier mentally
and physically than those who eat four
times day."
! A sprightly controversy has been 60
ing on for some time in the English
newspapers relative to the somewhat
intimate subject of the young English
woman's foot, or, rather, her shoes.
The modern English girl is tall-tall
in a sense and to a degree that the
Gibson cartoons of the stately Ameri-
can girl do not even adumbrate. In
the aristocratic set.- more often than
not, she towers over the heads of for
eign gentlemen. Long generations of
descent from tall fathers and mothers
and vigorous years of outdoor exercise
have made her what she is--very oc-
casionally six-footer, and with hands
and feet in due proportion.
The note of alarm has at last been
sounded. 1t is held that 1.-The daugh-
tiers Of Anak" are exercising too freely,
if they would wear the dainty shoes
that are women's traditional adorn-
ment. While the answer is made that
the apparent size of the English girls
foot is due to her sensible preference
for loose, easy shoes, it is admittedly
an incomplete explanation. One rea-
son for the growing popularity of the
American shoe in London is that it
ly smaller than the English shoe of the
same size.
| Another thing. girls, if you must pro-
vide for yourselves, says the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, look out that you dress
somewhat in accordance with the sta
ton you hope to occupy. Now that
is tiresome generalization, and 1t
needs an instance to make comprehen-
sible. The man of my story wanted to
employ somebody who should be rath-
er more than a typewriter. and rather
less than a confidential clerk. Appli-
cants, accordingly, were questioned and
oss-questioned rather sharply when
they went before him. Along in the
line came one whose answers were
ready, intelligent and apparently salts
factory. The man seemed to be on the
giddy verge of engaging her, when he
abruptly paused. looked embarrassed
for an instant, and then told the ap-
plicant that he would take her adj
dress. Anybody experienced in such
matters knows that that was equiva-
lent to dismissal. Whether the girl in
question knew it. or whether she went
away unduly hopeful, / do not know,
but a friend of the mans who was sit
ting by understood and expressed his
surprise.
Il thought you We're going to take
that girl" he said after she had gone
you'll probably examine a good many
more before you find one who answers
your questions as well as she did" The
employer gave a discouraged sigh and
said he didn't doubt 1t. well, then"
urged the friend, "why take chances?
What was the matter with the girl?"
The employer looked vacantly at him
a. moment and answered: 'She wore
low shoes and open work stockings"
Then as the friend seemed rather less
enIightened than before, he added: II
don't make it a point of inspecting
the shoes and stockings of the girls
who work for me, but by the merest
accident as she stepped away from
the desk happened to see her foot.