The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-20
CAN'TWORK AND GET THIN TOO
REDUCTION CURES FOR BUSY
WOMEN MUST BE MILD.

Starvation with Aocsmpanyins Physaoal
and Mental Activity Means Hines
Maxine Elliott's Case-Mrs. Langtfys
Moderate Pian-MethOds Of DINERS.
Maxine Elliott, who has returned rom
Europe with q slender figure and shattered
nerves, is not the first actress to learn mat
flesh reduction In the case Of women who
work may have very disagreeable enects'
Women Of leisure may attempt TINS 70
duction with impunity. But workers must
be careful about the measures th0y tako
to preserve or recover their slight figures
Miss Elliott, who is soon to begin her career
AZ a star, knows that she is q rival OF Ethei
Barrymore and other slim young women OF
the type admired so much In American
girlhood She wants to hold her own
against them, although abe u older
She set out to do II by being quite - thin
anyway, and she adopted q most strenuous
method Of getting down TO the proportions
she thought desirable. Throughout nor
vacation in England last summer MISS
Elliott followed as strict regimen OF diet
a. any woman we'll could. She not only
gave up sweets and starches. liquids At
meals and other such indulgences, but she
gave up all tho food she possibly could and
practically starved herself all summer
II she had been an idle woman and might
rest and nurse her health after this try
inR course OF treat mont, she might have
recovered her girlhood out lines without
danger to her health. But she q very
busy woman, about to begin tho most I'M
portant phase Of her career - an actress
She had long part to learn and arduous
rehearsals to 60 through.
That was not the kind Of occupation TO
follow such q summer - Miss Elliott had
spent. So her friends observed that she
was unusually nervous and was likely to
burst into tears without much provoostion.
Then the physicians came and told Misc
Elliott she had been getting too thin In too
short time for q 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 moro natural
In their effects than this.
People don't always follow the treat
ment nationally said physician. dis
cussing Miss Elliott's case. III 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 going to feel very much better
after eating. but will be permanently i'm
proved in health II the abstinence Is con-
| tinued 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 il she negects
| to eat these substitutes for fattening food
she will regret it. More than ever must
she keep herself we'll built up If she is q
woman who works. and she must also take
! Q 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 unscientific way, eating
q great deal of salad and even potatoes
soaked in vinegar, and walking long dis
tances, leaving her system unsupplieo
with adequate nourishment. She got the
fat of, but she never recovered during the
rest OF her life from the strain Of the cure.
In spite Of her naturally strong constitu.
ton, that weakened her irrecoveraby
And 1t was unnecessary, because re-
duction cure could have been accomplished
without any such results.
Some Of the women opera singers have
tried reduction cures which had very dis
agreeable results, although return Il
more liberal diet always brought then
back to health again. Calve lost pract ically
half q season here from the evil effects
of her treatment This consisted In taking
regular doses Of a strong acid which Il
rarely used except for external application
Somebody-probabl Nine. de Thebes o
Paris, the clairvoyant in whom Calve ha'
so much faith. told her to take this acis
internally Nine. CalvA followed that ad
| vice and became girlishly thin, but she wa
left in such a weakened condition by tn,
treatment that she lost half of her appear
anoes that season. She has now grow
very stout again, but has announced tina
abe will make no such effort to recover he
girlish outlines
Nine. Sembrich six years ago took
scientific cure under the care Of DR.. Schwen
niger, and as q result of the extreme re
duction in flesh that she underwent he
contract at the Italian Opera House In 81
Petersburg had to be cancelled after onl
a third Of the time had elapsed. She ha
, exhausted herself so completely that he
i, nerves broke down.
!! To Nine. Eames's determination to kee
herself thin at any cost is attributed muc
OF her III health in the last two season.
! The American prima donna in additio
to her OVID desire to keep thin believe
that everybody eats too much and thu
}. to this excess many evils Of life are a
tributable This La one OF Nine. Eames
t tendencies to Christian Science and 9th,
! beliefs Of that character. So she scarce
: eats enough to keep a woman Of her vii
orous constitution. and her physicians ha'
r often told her In the last four years TIN
she would be In much better health II 81
could persuade herself to eat more.
There are other instances Of wome ha
i ing injured their health permanently /
excessive dieting. Della Fox's health b
gan to fail first after she had taken a rigo
GUS reduction cure. Fay Templeton sever
. years ago had q contract with e. e. Ri
BY which she was to receive $3.50 week {
condition that her weight was down
$50 pounds three weeks before the begi