The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10
FOODS THAT ARE
BEAUTY MAKERS.

Do you wish to be beautiful? Wheth-
er you are depends. says the New York
Herald, upon what you eat. Certain
kinds of foods encourage pulchritude,
while others have an opposite tenden-
cy.
At the present time Uncle Sam is Gull
tlvating, on his experimental farm near
Washington, beauty making plant,
called the "fenugrek," the seeds of
winch are eaten by the women of AL
gerla to make them beautiful. Their
belief is that it makes them plump
and improves their compilations, but
the government experts as yet have
not reached a satisfactory conclusion
as to whether this faith is justified.
However, there are foods which I'M
deniably are beauty makers. 1t is
worth any womans While to know
what they are, and to try them-unless,
perchance, she is so perfect physically
as not to need them-in her own case,
and for her own advantage. 1t is
doubtful whether any woman, no mat
ter how we'll content with her own
charms, was ever satisfied that they
were not capable of Improvement. Did
Cleopatra, who in her day was voted
"a
as well as the most seductive and en-
ticing, use no cosmetics?
THE best of all beauty making foods
are fresh fruits and fresh vegetables"
said Prof. H. w. Wiley, the famous
government chemist, who is incidental
ly a skilled physician. yesterday. "They
contain relatively little nourishment-
woman could hardly live on them ex-
clusiVely for any length of time-but
for Itybi ch
ly understood, they possess extraor-
binary value as health givers. If you
want bright eyes and a clear complex
ion, eat plenty of them"
The fact is that most fresh vegeta-
bles and fruits are nearly all water.
Spinach is 921a per cent. water, cab
bage is II per cent. water beets are
8S per cent. water, carrots are 81 per
cent. water, caulihower is 81 per cent.
water, cucumbers are SO per cent. wa
ter, egg plant is SO per cent. water,
onions are 1872 per cent water, toma-
toes are 90 per cent. water, green corn
(cut from the cob is SLY per cent.
water and celery is 9412 per cent. wa
ter. Fruits are pretty nearly all water,
though the banana is relatively rich in
starch.
Fruits and vegetables, then, are of
no great use for supporting the human
EOOS nCll value 10 llldlIllS IuCulNlIldi,
and as beauty makers they are the
chief among foods. 1t is almost impos-
sib1e to eat too much of them in fresh
state, though, of course, the diet must
include reasonable proportion of those
substances, such as meat, which fur
nish blood and muscle tissue. Peas and
beans fresh from the garden. unlike
other vegetables, contain a large pro-
portion of the stuff that makes muscle
:
time high usefulness as green pro
vender."
Where beauty is considered in con-
nection with diet the greatest puzzle,
from the viewpoint of most women, has
to do with avoirdupois. 1t is an unfor-
tunate fact that three women out of
four by the time they have reached the
age of thirty are MORALLY afraid OF
becoming too fat. The fourth is fear
full of too severe attenuation, which is
even less to be desired, perhaps, and
she who is satisfied with her figure IN
prospectus is an exception, indeed, and
much to be envied.
1t is all absurd. To regulate ones
weight-save in those unusual cases
where the fatty tendency is a disease,
or attenuation due to constitutional
defect-is perfectly easy, and may be
accomplished almost to the requisite
lating ones diet, not in painful way,
but by common sense.
Are you getting too fat? Drop bread
and potatoes. OF course, you are not
expected to gorge yourself with pastry
and candy. Eat all you want. If you
like eat twice as much as usual, but
consider that potatoes and bread are
not for you.
The cure for excessive thinness is
obvious Eat freely of the fat max
ing foods-bread, potatoes, pastry, can
dy, and in the way of fruits, bananas
and apples. With moderate exercise
(Which is an essentiaD you will take
on flesh But whether you are plump
or lean the diet that will tend to make
you prettiest must include plenty Of
fruits and green vegetables, fresh from
the garden.
Folk lore notions, handed down from
generation to generation by the inlet
tered are often founded upon fact. For
example, there is a widespread and an
cient popular belief to the effect that
a diet of spinach makes a clear COM
nlexion, and of carrots a rosy skin.