The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-25

I here from the evil effects of her treat
ment. This consisted in taking regu-
! lar doses of a strong acid which is
rarely used except for external appli-
cation. Somebody-probably Nine. de
Thebes of Paris, the clairvoyant in
whom Calve has so much faith, told
| her to take this acid internally. Nine.
Calve followed that advice and became
! girlishly thin, but she was left in such
a weakened condition by the treatment
| that she lost half of her appearances
that season. She has now grown very
stout again, but has announced that
| she will make no such effort to recover
her girlish outlines.
Mine. Sembrich six years ago took
a scientific cure under the care of DIR.
| Schweninger, and as a result of the
extreme reduction in flesh that she un-
derwent her contract at the Italian
| Opera House in ST. Petersburg had to
be cancelled after only a third of the
time had elapsed. She had exhausted
herself SO completely that her nerves
broke down.
| To Nine. Eamess determination to
/! keep herself thin at any cost is attrib-
uted much of her i'll health in the Last
| two seasons. The American prima
| donna in addition to her own desire to
| keep thin believes that everybody eats
| too much and that to this excess many
evils of life are attributable. This is
one of Nine. Eames's tendencies to
Christian Science and other beliefs of
| that character. So she scarcely eats
enough to keep woman of her Wig
orous constitution, and her physicians
have often told her in the last four
years that she would be in much better
/ health if she could persuade herself to
| eat more.
There are other instances Of women
having injured their health permanent
ly by excessive dieting. Della Fox's
| health began to fail first after she had
taken rigorous reduction cure. Fay
Templeton several years ago had
contract with E. E. Rice by which she
was to receive $3.50 a week ON condition
that her weight was down to $50
! pounds three weeks before the begin
/ ming of the season. She was more tina n
/ 10 when that provisional contract was
made. During the summer she dieted
/ vigorously, took more exercise than
| she ever had before and a week before
/ the time for her to begin rehearsals
| was down to 152 pounds.
| She went to Mr.. Rice's office to see
II a modus vivendi could not be estab-
| lished by which she could escape the
penalty of not Kidding herself of those
last two pounds.
| But Mr.. Rice was ohdurate. The
| salary was a large one and he was
willing to let Miss Templeton keep her
| two pounds only on condition that she
let him off $50 a week. But the
actress wanted thu. money too.
| We'll, I'm all right now" Miss Tenn
pleton said when she attended the first
rehearsal. I'm even an ounce or two
under $50. I thought the first eighteen
! pounds were bad enough. But the last
two were hell
Then she declared that nothing could
ever induce her to undertake such a
cure again, and she has kept her word
until with the exception Of May Irwin
she is probably the latest actress on
the stage.
Lillian Russell has been stout from
the time of her first successes outside
OF Tony Pastors, and it is probable
that now-twenty years later,-she is
as slight as she ever was. When flesh
threatened to become a drawback,
MISS Russell reduced herself by diet
to moderate extent. Once she had
reached proportions that were no dam
age to her beauty she resumed a nor
| NAL regimen of food and drink and
stuck to it. Her efforts to remain
the size she liked were then confined
| to- athletic exercises. She has one
room fitted up as gymnasium, and
works an hour every day in this room.
| Other women have fitted up private
gymnasiums before and expected to
get thin from the mere possession of
| the apartment. Miss Russelrs gym
nasium is constantly used and serves
very practical purpose.
Mrs. Langtry. who is very slim this