The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20


late at night. just before retiring.
The woman who wants to add to her
weight should never go to bed hum
cry. She should take a little some
thing at bedtime, even if it be no more
than handful of nuts, or a slice of
bread and butter. Crackers are di-
gestable at night, if one eats the right
kind of chackers; while bread. if prop
erly baked and we'll buttered with good
fresh butter is as good a flesh food as
one could want.
The woman who wants to increase
the girth of her chest should drink
with her meals. She should take two
or three cups of tea, or weak coffee,
or milk, or she should drink water.
Water taken at night before going to
bed is one of the most fattening things
known. To the lover of a drink of
water there is nothing as grateful as
a long draught just before going to
sleep; and the woman who can drink
her glass of water just before stepping
into bed is pretty sure of a long re-
freshing night and an added weight
next day.
Even if one does not gain flesh during
the night the slice of bread, the glass
of water, and the cup of chocolate,
nourish the body. They prevent it
from wasting away in. the night. The
woman who goes to bed hungry, on the
other hand, will waste away and awake
some ounces lighter than she was the
night before.
Fat is made of food, all advices to
the contrary Notwithstanding. And
the fat woman is the woman who
takes food into her system. She drinks
fat. oh -iT fnn -los
munches candy, or she keeps a jar Of
crackers handy. She is never with
out something to put into her mouth.
The thin woman, on the other hand,
undergoes long fasts, and when she
does eat, it is to take something which
is not very fat producing. Maybe she
takes a slice of toast and a cup of
Unsweetened tea. Perhaps she eats a
chop, maybe an egg, or she takes a
salad or something sour. But seldom,
very seldom, does she indulge in the
ice cream which her fat sister loves,
nor does she take to the rich layer
cakes and the abundant preserves.
Jams and sweets are very often rather
distasteful to her though she can eat
fruit and meats.
1t is, after all, a question of diet.
Though the stout woman has the great
misfortune to be so constituted that
the most of her food goes to the for
nation of fat rather than to the nour-
ishment of the system. She is usually
very weak in her muscle and she is
short in her breathing and, too, fire.
quently she is dizzy in her head and
in bad shape generally. Her food goes
to fat instead of to muscle building.
Arm motions will broaden the Shout
ders, open the lungs, insure deep
breathing and at the same time develop
grace.
One of the most effective of the hand
and arm exercises is that of stroking
the chin. The best movement is that
which is commonly practiced for the
reduction of the double chin. This is
a motion which is performed with the
back of the hand and with the whole
arm. The hand is placed under the
chin with the wrist just at the tip
of the chin. The entire hand is now
drawn across the chin, stroking it with
quick. vigorous motion, using the
palm of the hand.
commended for the reduction of double
chin and of all the known remedies.
there is not one that is half as effec-
tive. chin that is doubled and laid
in many folds can be driven away in
this manner, and the fat can be grad
ually made to disappear from the neck
until it resumes the long graceful curve
which it once had.
The exercise of stroking the chin is
one that is recommended for the arm
also, for it brings the arm into a
strained position and forces it to per-
form motions which are unusual for
it. This, in itself is good, for it brings
q new set of muscles into use.
In reducing the weight, as well as
in adding flesh, it very often happens
that the same set of exercises will per-
form the work in both cases Vfenor-
GUS exercises will take off the fat;
and vigorous exercise will also devel-
op muscle, and as 1t does this, ii will
add to the weight. OF course, the
new fat will be hard fat but it will
be beautiful in its outlines.
The woman who follows an outdoor
sport is usually very graceful wom-
an. She who COLTS, who rides the
wheel, who Yields the tennis racket,
or who swings the croquet mallet, is
the woman who is graceful and sup
pie.
The woman who takes to the rock
ing chair at o'clock in the morning
and who sits all day. getting out for
only n few minutes, Is not the woman
who will preserve her figure. AT 40
this woman will look her age and
al 80 she will look great deal older.
Don't forget that age is told, not
by the lines In the face, but by the
figure. The middle aged figure Is well
known. The hips and abdomen are
prominent. and there is fat on the
shoulder blades. Then there Is the
figure OF old age. This rs n withered
figure thin above the waist line and
heavy on the hips This Is the stage
when a woman begins 10 look as though
she We're 20 long before she has lived
out her Cos.