The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-28
BEAUTY DON'TS FOR
THE TOO, TOO
PLUMP WOMAN

Don't become too stout. Although
plumpness of contour is by no means
unbecoming, corpulence is a thing to
be avoided.
Don't suppose that you can over
indulge in fattening foods and take
little exercise and yet keep delicate
proportions.
Don't devote less than two hours
daily to exercise-either taken in the
form of Homework, or in riding, golf
ing or walking. Any one who has
tendency to stoutness can keep the
fend obesity at bay by entering heart
lily into outdoor pastimes.
Don't think any kind of exercise,
taken in any kind of way, is going to
help matters. Exercise, to be valua-
BILE, must be moderate, systematic and
habitual.
Don't think that because you are
forty and fair you must also be fat,
and that nature has laid down a law
that women shall accumulate layers
with years, like a magnolia or any
other tree.
Don't settle down calmly and with
out a struggle into middle-age solidity.
Don't say you had rather keep the
too abundant flesh you have than
exert yourself to try a cure.
Don't forget that superfluous flesh
is the first sign of physical degenera-
ton, the clogging of energies within
and the film upon the fine steel Of
mental keenness.
Don't look for a fair, pure COM
plexion reflected from your mirror If
you have more flesh than belongs to
you; you will see a purplish, pasty
tinge in the cheeks.
Don't let fat accumulate about the
htps-the very worst place-for it not
only disfgures the gait but clogs the
breathing by impeding the diaphram
in its movements.
Don't wear tight bandages and try
in that way to appear like a sylph;
makes doctors grow richer.
Don't fly to "banting' for relief If
flesh is blurring the clear lines of the
face and obliterating the figure. Take
not less food, but less drinks, less sleep,
more exercise and more cold water
baths.
Don't eat less, but avoid highly sea-
soned food, all thick soups, pork, veal,
sardines, potatoes, peas, corn, maca-
roni, rice, fried food of every descrip-
ton and pastry.
Don't take food and drink too hot.
In Paris, the new theory for prevent
ing obesity is to take the food cold
coIu meats, cola vegetables, cold tea,
cold buildings, with salads and plenty
of fruit and nuts.
Don't adopt a diet of vinegar or
lemon juice and expect to look as 1.-the
as heroine of romance and be as
nssome as wand. You may reach
this beatific condition, but your health
will be ruined
Don't be content with daily cold
sponge bath; it is not sufficient. A
douche is better or swim in cold
water, followed by brisk friction with
crash towels.
Don't spend your days and nights In
close, unventilated rooms.
Don't purchase leanness by Sleep
less nights, capricious appetites and
condition nearly approaching hys-
terra. and waste nerves along with
tissues.
Don't hesitate to squander a penny
IN testing your weight now and then,
IN order to keep track of flesh. Any
deviation from the right weight, either
over or under, by three pounds, should
receive immediate correction.
Don't forget that Napoleon lost his
battles when he grew corpulent and
iiat-wltted by comparison with the
lean' ambitious corporal of Tou1on
Don't, however, try to get so thin
tnat you are evanescent, spirituelle, I'M
predlcable, fragile, melting thing
that fits, hovers, floats, shippers and
VaniShes