The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-31
Diet for Fine Complexion.

The menu for obesity eliminates
 sauces, gravies, vegetables, bread and
 pastry. leaving the victim to srbsist
 as best she may on biscuits and toast
 meat and fish and tea with lemon. in
 stead of milk and saccharine instead of
 sugar. To this a little stewed fruit
 and small portion of vegetables may | be added after a week. Drinking at
 meals is discountenanced. but plenty
 of liquid may be taken between them
 says The New York Tribune.
 A complexion diet tends toward vegetarianism. and it is now consider
 ed quiet smart to eat little or no meat. Total abstinence goes hand in hand
 with veget erianism Aerated waters | have replaced the claret and cham pagne of former days. and even tea
 and coffee are looked on with sus- picIon.
 Nor are these practices confined to women. The sterrer sex has become extremely particular as to what it eats and drinks. The modern man does not want anything to interfere either with
 his work or his play, and he does not
 want to be fat any more than the mod ern woman does. His forefathers ex-
 pected to become more or less fat as they approached middle age, and there Is even reason to suppose that they regarded their unhandsome, bulky fig- ures with some complacency as indl- eating well-fed. well-established worldly position. But their modern descendant Is vain of his figure and he knows that, though the corset-maker and his tailor can help him to a con- siderable extent. 1t is imperative to go to the foot of the matter by preventing the Accommodation of adipose tissue.
 Men do not have to trouble much as a rule about their complications. They are all right if they have a tolerably clear skin. with that healthy brown ness which comes of a suflciency of field sports and exercise in the open air. A real muddines of complexion is almost as disagreeable in a man as in a woman, and for removing that trouble there Is undoubtedly nothing like diet. But the modern man, If he had to choose, would prefer even a bad complexion to what may be delicately termed a corporation"
 Many men will not touch made dishes" rich sauces and the like. from sheer dread of embonpoint and 1t is quite usual to see them drinking abso- lutely nothing. not even drop of wat CT. at a meal. Those men who drink anything at meals generally prefer some light wine. such as Moselle, or even weak whiskey and water. and champagne is much less favored than of yore. Port is accepted only by old fashioned people
 Men haunted by the bogle of obesity are. as the country can testify. terribly 'faddy." They want their hot water with a dash of lemon in 1t the first thing in the morning and 'ministrations of various kinds between meals the day. Some of them may be gratified with a glass of yer mouth half an hour before dinner, for, of course. they disdain. or deny them selves, afternoon tea with it's accom- paniments of rich cakes and cream | The enormous popularity of creme de l Is significant of the delicate | digestion of the modern man. for this | ra scinating green liquor Is only a sublI- l mated version of the homely pepper | mint cordial of the country farmers l wife Many doctors, however, do not | approve of it.
 To sum up. 1t is certain that there | Is nothing more destructive of good | ooks in both sexes than even slight 1 ,xcess in eating and drinking CT the | ,doption of a diet unsuited to the par .icular constitution.