The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17
WOMAN TELLS HOW ID MAKE 4 BEAUTY She Drank Lots of Water and
 Took Exercise SOON BECAME AN ATHLETE Woman Who Was Ugly Tells How She Brought About Transformation
 in Herself By Hard
 Work.
SOON BECAME AN ATHLETE


 become pretty, says the New York Sun.
 Tt takes time to make yourself beau tiful," she says, and 1t takes age You can't be beautiful when you are young. You may be pretty with kind of inane insipidness, which soon fades. But you can't be really beautiful.
 q am business woman, and l found that to succeed I must be better-looking. That is why I have made over my fig ure.
 q might once have been pretty-far back in my early girlhood-but at the age of 2s l had lost all my good looks. Ea@2 years later I was at my worst and mX ugllest. I was stout and my complexion was that of stout woman of S2.
 "One day a cousin, coming to town, spoke of me as his nice old relative. And the very next day a shopgirl asked me if I would like to see middle-aged hats. And still young woman!
 q resolved to reclaim my figure and my looks. And, what was more, I resolved to grow handsome while was retaining my figure.
 My initial step was to go to the office
 
 prescription, copied verbatim:
 "'When you get up in the morning drink two glasses of water. For breakfast take nothing but a small cup of coffee and two rolls. For lunch eat nothing at all, but drink water Drink water freely all day. At night eat a chop for dinner and all the vegetables you want. But drink nothing at all with your dinner
 This sounded easy, and l went to work. 4 At-- a pound. At this rate l calculated that I would be 80 before I would become slen- der again. It 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, l 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 clock. This I set for o'clock At in the morning was out walking.
 'I took a walk of one hour, drinking copious glasses of water while I walked. It was not always pleasant to trot around for an hour In the morning. rain or shine, but I did 1t.
 For breakfast had only one cup of weak coffee and some very hard rolls. | This is the best way to diet Sit down to  will not eat too much.
 q kept up my system of exercise all day, seldom resting, and when I went to bed at night I was tired enough to sleep without rocking. Once I had been trou- bled with insomnia, but this disappeared
 There were some rules wnicn went against the grain terribly. But they | proved beneficial before I got through. l One was to take no hot baths. Hot baths are fattening, and they act as a weakener to stout persons. Instead I learned to l take cold baths.
 "The second thing was the matter of 1 standing. I was told to stand whenever 1 possible
 ''The third and particularly disagreeable point was that of wearing my clothes loose.
 by an osteopath. They were to occupy fifteen minutes, night and morning. 1 'I was to work the shoulder blades and 1 the hip joints and was also to swing my arms and drop one knee. I was told I that the best hours were 5-in the morning and II at night. This gave me barely seven hours sleep, but 1t was enough. lost pound a day
 with regard to diet, I was told not to drink anything with my mea.~ and not to eat very much. This was the only restric- ton. Ootherwise I ate what I wanted.
 After while the person who Is exer- | csing becomes ambitious. I longed to walk great many miles a day. So I l bought pedometer and measured my | footsteps.
 q soon found that could do five miles | twice day with no trouble at all, and often did five miles three times day. | In a short time I was as slender as a postman and pretty soon I began to be as 1.-the as an athlete
 Then while doing this, worked upon my complexion and upon my hair. In- deed for three months I quite neglected my business and devoted myself to the beauty quest
 My hands put in the care of a mani- cure, who shaped them and made them rosy and tapering. In a short time people began to tell me what pretty hands had. I found that anybody can have nice hands. Mine were white as milk with peach-colored nails and tapering tips.
 My hair I taught to bloom. It was dark, and I brightened 1t with the right kind of shampoo. Of course I did not bleach it, for I wanted dark hair, but I made it shine.
 'It is easy to make your hair shine. It is only matter of training 1t a little. It will soon glow like a blackbird's wing. If it had been light I would have washed 1t well with little benna In the water to make it glow.
 My forehead I widened a little and made 1t lower. This is done by treating the hair as 1t should be treated
 "And my lips I taught to curve You can force your mouth to be expressive and you can have rosebud in place of slit. massaged a dimple into my chin and I curved my mouth. It is all a trick of massage.
 Well kept on until had made my self good-looking. People began to tell me so. and I knew it, for I could see 1t in the glass. It is something to be hand some, even If you are wamon and real estate agent, and to have succeeded is a matter Of much pride to mo