The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-25
CAN'T WORK AND GET THIN TOO
Reduction Cures for Busy Women Must Be Mild.
Maxine EIIott's Case.

Maxine Elliott, who has returned
from Europe with a slender figure and
shattered nerves, is not the first actress
to learn that flesh reduction in the case
OF women who work may have very dis
agreeable effects. Women of leisure
may attempt this reduction with i'm
punity. But workers must be careful
about the measures they take to pre-
serve or recover their slight. figures.
Miss Elliott, who is soon to begin
her career as a star, knows that she
is a rival of Ethel Barrymore and
other slim young women of the type
admired SO much in American girlhood.
She wants to hold her own against
them, although she is older.
She set out to do it by being quite as
thin anyway, and she adopted a. most
strenuous method of getting down to
the proportions she thought desira BILE.
Throughout her vacation in England
last summer Miss Elliott followed as
strict a regimen of diet as any woman
we'll could. She not only gave up
sweets and starches, liquids at meals
and other such indulgences, but she
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and practically starved herself all sum-
mer.
If she had been an idle woman and
might rest and nurse her health after
this trying course of treatment, she
might have recovered her girlhood OUT
lines without danger to her health.
But she is a very busy woman, about
to begin the most important phase of
her career as an actress. She had a
long part to learn and arduous re-
htarsals to go through.
That was not the kind of occupation
to follow such a summer as Miss Ell
lott had spent. So her friends observ-
ed that she was unusually nervous and
was likely to burst into tears without
much proyocation. Then the physi-
clans came and told Miss Elliott she
had been getting too thin in too short
a time for a woman who had hard
work before her. They prescribed rest
and a good dinner for several days,
and promised that it would not be long
before she would be herself again.
Most reduction cures are more nat
ura1 in their effects than this.
People don't always follow the
treatment nationally said a physician,
discussing Miss Elliott's case. eff they
did, there would be no danger to any
of them. Any man or woman who
gives up fattening foods and ceases to
drink water with meals is not only go
ing to feel very much better after
eating. but will be permanently i'm
proved in health if the abstinence is
continued long enough. But to take
the place of food that is given up the
woman who wants to get thin must
eat meat.
She can eat all the beef, chicken,
lamb or mutton she wants to take the
place Of the prohibited articles; and If
she neglects to eat these substitutes
for fattening food she will regret it.
More than ever must she keep herself
Well built up If she is a woman who
works, and she must also take rest to
recover herself before she returns to
her occupation.
''The late Fanny Davenport when she
wanted to produce Fedora, in this
country realized that she had grown
too stout, and started in hurriedly to
get thin. She did it in rather an I'M
scientific way, eating a great deal of
salad and even potatoes soaked in
vinegar, and walking long distances,
leaving her system unsupplied with
adequate nourishment. She got the fat
off, but she never recovered during
the rest of her life from the strain of
the cure In spite of her naturally
strong constitution, that weakened her
irrecoverably. And it was unnecessary,
because reduction cure could have
been accomplished without any such
results
Some of the women opera singers
have tried reduction cures which had
dfco &c ola n
return to more liberal diet always
brought them back to health again.
Calve lost practically half a season
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