The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-10
The MAKING OF A BEAUTY.
CONFESSIONS OF A BUSINESS
WOMAN OF sc.

She Tells How from Stout and Ugly She
Became Slim and Pretty BY Taking
the Berlin Reduction Treatment-A
Method That Calls for StrOng Will.
There is a woman in town who has made
over her figure. Once ugly, she has now
become pretty.
1T takes time to make yourself beautiful,
she says. and 1t takes age. You can't
be beautiful when you are young. You
may be pretty with kind Of inane insipid-
ness which soon fades. But you can't
be really beautiful.
lam q business woman and found that
! to succeed / must be better looking. That
is why have made over my figure.
Il might once have been pretty-far
back in my early girlhood; but at the age
Of 2s 1 had lost all my good looks. -Four
years later was at my worst and my ugliest.
was stout, and my complexion was that
Of the stout woman OF 81.
"One day q cousin coming to town,
, spoke Of me as his nice old relative. And
the very next day a shopgirl asked me
| il would like to see middle aged hats.
And still young woman.
Il resolved to reclaim my figure and
my looks And, what was more, I resolved
to grow handsome while I was reclaiming
f, my figure.
"My initial step was to 60 to the Office
| Of reduction specialist. This was his pre-
scription, copied verbatim:
When you get up in the morning drink
| two glasses Of water. For breakfast, take
nothing but small cup Of coffee and two
rolls. For lunch eat nothing at all, but
drink water. Drink water freely all day.
| At night eat chop for dinner. and all the
vegetables you want. But drink nothing
at all with your dinner
This sounded easy, and went to work.
~ the end Of three weeks had lost one
pound. At this rate, calculated that
would be 80 before would become slender
again. 1t was plainly up to me to find some
other way Of reducing.
Consulting a friend who had been to
Berlin, where they do wonderful things
| for the human frame divine. found that
a different course Of treatment could be
tried. The Berlin treatment is the exer-
| else treatment.
"My first duty was to purchase an alarm n,
the morning was out walking
Il took a walk of one hour, drinking
copious glasses Of water while l walked.
1t was not always pleasant to trot around
for an hour in the morning, rain or shine.
but did it.
aFor breakfast had only one cup Of
weak coffee and some very hard rolls. This
is the best way to diet Sit down to some
thing you don't really want. You will not
eat too much.
Il kept up my system Of exercise all day,
seldom resting, and when went to bed at
night was tired enough to sleep without
rocking. Once l had been troubled with
insomnia But this disappeared:
There were some rules which went
against the grain terribly: But they proved
beneficial before got through. One was
to take no hot baths. Hot baths are fat
tening and they act as weakener to stout
persons. Instead, learned to take cold
sThe second thing was the matter Of
standing. l was told to stand whenever
possible.
aThe third and particularly disa greeable
point was that Of wearing my clothes loose.
aDaily exercises were suggested to me
by an osteopa.h. They were to occupy
fifteen minutes night and morning.
Il was TO work the shoulder blades and
the hip Joints, and I was also to swing my
arms and drop on one knee. was told
| that the best hours were In the morning
and ii at night. This gave me barely
seven hours sleep, but II was enough.
lost pound day.
with regard to diet, ! was told not to
drink anything with my meals and not to