The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-07
GET THIN, FASHION 0RDAINS.

From fashions standpoint, says the
New York Sun, there is no more i'm
portant question just now before the
feminine community than how to get
thin.
The elongated, almost attenuated,
type of womanhood is now in favor
with the result that women who do
not match that type are worrying
over the problem of how to reduce
their weight, or at least, how to keep
from adding to it.
Unfortunately there seems to be no
royal road to leanness, and the man
or woman who invents a safe, easy
and quick way to get thin, and to
stay there, has a fortune assured
Systematic, partial starvation is a
method that never fails to work, but
few women have the courage to I'M
dergo this treatment year in and year
out and the moment it is stopped two
ounces of flesh, it seems, come hur-
rying back for every one that was
lost.
Strenuous physical culture exercises
Will often do the business; but then
as one woman said:
Life isn't worth living If one must
give up the greater part of every day
teresting stunts. When / tried it, the
only happy time 1 had was when in
bed, and l used to dread waking up
IN the morning because of the hours
hard gymnastics that awaited me be-
fore l could have mouthful to eat"
The speaker, who was about feet
3 inches tall and weighed 1874 pounds,
then went on to say that less than a
year ago she weighed 225 pounds.
And are Won now n qOO6 haaIf1,
she was asked.
Never better" was the answer.
DO you mind letting me into the
secret? went on the friend
Not at all, but you will be sur
prised to find how simple the process
Is. When / decided to give up the
hard physical culture exercises. which
to me were really physical torture,
L went straight to my physician.
Look here, DOCTOR said, L sim
ply can't endure any longer being so
rat; must get thin, and I want you
to give me something that will help
me- L viii take anything but instant
poison.
THE doctor looked me over asked a
rev questions and, to my despair,
shook her head
" 1t isn't drugs you need she said.
They would only make you ill., Don't
be discouraged, though | think l can
help you If you will promise to come
here every day for a month and i'm
plicity follow my directions
of course, I eagerly promised any
thing and everything, and the very
next morning | began my treatments.
And this is what l did every day, ex-
cept Sunday, for one month, at the
END OF which L had lost just twenty
pounds:
Twice a day, morning and night. I
take off my corset, lift my chest as
high as possible, draw in the abdomi-
nal muscles and hold myself in that
position as long as l can without get
ting too tired. Beginners find it very
hard to to do 1t at all. But it is easily
learned.
Then stretch out my arms straight
IN front OF me with the palms of my
hands together, raise them above my
head as far as possible, lower them
again IN front of me as far as 1 can,
bending, of course, to do it,
Now, l repeat this movement five
or six times. At the beginning 1 did
1t only twice"
Well" broke in the listener trihe
impatiently, what you are telling me
/ have heard dozens of times before.
Those exercises are always included in
the physical culture cure. I'm sure
you didn't need to go to a physician
to find them out"
Wait a moment" laughed the pa
tent Il was just about to tell you
that those few exercises are all the
physical culture stunts I have to do,
that they don't take more than ten
minutes and that they are merely in
cidental to the more important treat
ment, which is massage.
AT first ] was massaged under the