The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-15
SUN BATHS WOMEN
THEY WILL HAVE TO LEAVE ST.
PAUL TO ATTAIN THEM.
Women Write to Know How to Obtain
FIesh-The Greater Problem Is How
to Get Rid of Flesh When Once OBJ
tanned.

Some one recommends sun baths for
women with nerves or those who are
scrawny and want to be stout. Plenty
o. sun, plenty of cold water and fresh
air are the things for women who are
nervous. But certainly the woman who
wants plenty of sunshine will have to
remove to some other cline, for the
sun refuses to shine in this vicinity
any more.
Speaking of drinking water, does
any one remember Mrs. Davenport,
who came to st. Paul to talk hygiene
to the women-at ten dollars per-and
stopped at the Aberdeen? AS a rule
women desire to conceal their age and
are entirely pardonable if they tell lit
tie taradidleS about it, but Mrs Daven-
port not only told hers, but it is said
that she tackled on a few years to
show what her regime could do in
keeping women young in appearance.
She claimed to be seventy-but she
looked fifty. This result, she declared,
was possible to every woman who took
proper care of herself and lived ration
ally. Mrs. Davenport had magnifi-
cent, erect figure, and she claimed that
all her good health and youthful looks
were due to cold water, sunshine and
air, without cosmetics or medicine. 1t
would not do to say how many quarts
of water she claimed to drink a day.
but If memory is not treacherouS, 1t
was seven. She drank q great deal of
water upon rising in the morning, and
while drinking it she would sit in the
sunshine with windows open and let
the air blow upon her whole body. Then
during the day she would drink a great
deal of water, and again at night be-
fore retiring, she would place a large
pitcher of cold water on the table be-
side her while she read, and drink glass
after glass Not only did she claim
that water kept woman young, but
that 1t was curative of certain troubles;
when she felt cold coming she could
cure it by cold water.
Exaggerated as some of this may
seem, doubtless many of us drink al
together too little water, and would be
greatly benefited by more. If you are
thin and it worries you, try the water
cure; surely 1t is cheap and easy
enough to appeal to ALL A great deal
of water drank while eating is a GER
tain fattener; even physicians will tell
you that So many write to know how
they can become stout, but, strange to
say, few know how to become thin;
an to be too stout is infinitely more
trying than to be thin. If the latter. a
woman can pad out her gowns and look
almost anyway she pleases; but, alas.
she cannot take off the fat and too
much of it is a real affliction If too
thin, drink lots of water, eat plenty of
apples and all kinds of fruit, don't
worry, go to bed early and sleep late
If possible. Try an absolutely regular
life for time; meals on time. to bed
on time and up at the same hour, and
see If you do not gain twenty pounds
after six months of this.
AS to complexion, it is a dangerous
thing to try acids and cosmetics with
out the advice of physician; but one
may safely rub the juice of a cucumber
on the face. 1t may clear the com
plexion; at all events, it can do no
harm