Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
WHEN ONE is TOO STOUT.
In This Day Of Long Lines Special
Effort Should Be Made to Reduce
Unlovely and Unwieldy Obesity.

Of all beauty walters, the fat girl is
The greatest sufferer. Everything SIZE
doesn't want to do she must do to
keep her flesh down to even semi-nor-
NAL weight Everything that isn't
good for her is what she wants, says
Nine. Qui Vive, in the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald. Mrs. Fashion comes along
and shouts the order: Hips off" but
the fat lady can't hips of" because
they grow there in all too solid proper
tions. Mrs. Fashion says the proper
figure is tall and snaky, with long,
lovely, slender lines. Alas, all the long,
lovely lines of the plump dame are
round and circular. Woe is her fatal
Dark are her hopes! What's the use?
Obesity is an unnatural condition,
and one that destroys the beauty and
symmetry of the body. Every graceful
line is lost and blotted out in thick,
heavy layers of fat. After time these
layers prove burden, and the friends
of the afflicted one find in the billowy
rolls all sorts of inspirations for al
legged jokes and unkind criticisms
What is worse than all else, the victim
is in prime condition for many physical
ills, the fatty formations interfering
with the work of the heart, lungs and
other organs. Reform should be i'm
mediate.
The young woman who finds that she
is acquiring more flesh than she needs
should inaugurate an immediate change
her daily life.
The trouble is sure to be worse as
she grows older, and may heaven save
every one of us from the dumpy. bar
rel-lilAe middle age figure that waddles
about in dreadful discomfort. There is
no need for anyone who has little
time to spare to suffer this way, and
to make of himself or herself a peram-
bulating caricature. The remedy is in
careful living and regard for certain
health laws that are necessary for the
well-being of every human soul.
Overindulgence in the good things of
life is the chief reason for accumula-
lions OF too ponderous flesh, and in
dolence is all the others. Women who
are alertly active seldom acquire much
flesh, for they get sufficient exercise to
insure generally healthy condition.
and such women may enjoy without
harm the very best viands in the land.
The Withdrawals from their stock of
nervous forces make good living a real
need.
The phlegmatic temperament. which
takes life easily, is the one that will
gather curves and plumpness to it's
body. 1t is a trying matter for per-
sons of such disposition to change
their mode of living. but it must be
done to ward off waddling. loathsome
condition that is not only filled with
many discomforts, but is also attended
with dangers of i'll health.
Self-denial in the kind and amount
OF food eaten is absolutely necessary.
and exercise also. Exercise out of
doors is better because it promotes the
fullest use of the lungs. Walking.
swimming and bicycling are the best
methods of working off superfluous fat.
and leaving the flesh firm and elastic.
II the beauty supplicant finds these
exercises irksome she can go to a good
get thin" institute, where they have
mechanical devices for producing the
| same effects as the exercises men
toned