The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04
THEY WISH TO BE THIN
ALL FAT WOMEN DO, BUT ESPECIAL
LY so IF THEY ARE ACTRESSES.
They Find, However, that Reduction
Methods Cannot Accompany
Hard Work.

New York Sun.
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 disagreeable effects.
Women Of leisure may attempt this reduc-
ton with impunity. But workers must be
careful about the measures they take to
preserve recover their slight figures.
Miss Elliott, who is soon to begin her
career as a star knows that she is 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 most strenuous
method of getting down to the proportions
she thought desirable. Throughout her
vacation in England last summer Miss Ell
as any woman well could. She not only
gave up sweets and starches, liquids at
meals and other such indulgences. but she
gave up all the food she possibly could and
practically starved herself all summer.
If she had been idle woman and might
rest and nurse her health after this trying
course of treatment, she might have re-
covered her girlhood outlines without dam
ger to her health. But she is a very busy
woman, about 10 begin the most important
phase of her career as an actress. She
had long part to learn and arduous re-
hearsals to go through.
That was not the kind Of occupation to
follow such summer Miss Elliott had
spent. So her friends observed that she
was unusually nervous and was likely to
burst into tears without much provocation.
Then the physicians came and told Miss
Elliott she had been getting too thin in too
short time for woman who had hard
work before her. They prescribed rest and
a good dinner for several days, and prom
ised that it would not be long before she
would be herself again.
Most reduction cures are more natural IN
their effects than this.
THEY STARvE THEMSELVES.
People don't always follow the treat
ment nationally" said a physician. dis
cussng 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 going to feel very much better
~
proved in health If 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 If she neglectS
to eat these substitutes for fattening food
she will regret IL. More than ever must
she keep herself well built up If she is
a woman who works, and she must also
/ take a rest to recover herself before she
returns to her occupation.
1.-THE late Fanny Davenport when she
wanted to produce Fedora. In this country
started in hurriedly TO get thin. She did
it in rather unscientifc way, eating a
great deal of salad and even potatoes
soaked in vinegar, and walking long dis
/ tances, 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 II
| was unnecessary, because a reduction 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 tc
| more liberal diet always brought them Dacb
/ to health again. Calve lost practically halt
! a season here from the evil effects of her
| treatment. This consisted in taking regular
| doses
| except for external application. 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 be-
| came girlshy 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 viii
make no such effort to recover her girlist
! outlines.
A SCIENTIFIC CURE.
Nine. Sembrich six years ago took a
scientific cure under the care OF Dr.
| Schweninger, and as result of the ex-
! IRENE reduction in flesh that she under
went her contract at the Italian Opera
House in ST. Petersburg had TO be Cancelled
after only third of the time had elapsed
She had exhausted herself so completely
that her nerves broke down.
| To Nine. Eames's determination to keer
1 herself thin at any cost is attributed much
| Of her III health In the last two seasons