The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-11
THE ROAD TO SLIM BEAUTY.
GENERAL HOUSEWORK ONE WAY
TO BECOME PRETTY.

n,ump girl, ~but I may be one some day.
am taking the professional beauty treat
nent. and It will land me somewhere l am
sure.
1T all began with grandmother. She
"a nearly 10, but trim In her figure. She
looks like q girl.
'On the other hand I, her granddaughter
look like a matron. I I'M short, stout and
not very graceful. Seeing us half a block
away YOU would think me the elder Of the
two. -,
GRANDMOTHER lie 1--WE feet four; she weighs
little moro than ITO, Her, waist is round.
Though her hair IL white, she wears II
modishly arranged. II you see her q little
way of she looks 20.
Il am plump; my weight is fifteen pounds
greater than the normal at my height ana
AGE, and my waist is too full and too high
Il thought the matter over and Their
decided TO get thin. cannes is to be the
fashion in London this spring, and at least
ten society women are living skeletons.
THEW have reduced until they are q little
below normal.
yet they are strong. The waist is round
and firm; the shoulders fat, the back de-
iiciously graceful and full OF curves, and
the throat and neck as young as that OF any
Girl. 1t is all a matter Of reduction.
Il have out out all starohy foods. OF
course I don't eat CAKE nor drink creams
but / eat meats and vegetables and, as q
rule, all the foods that are set before me.
- have learned something in the matter
OF drinking, OF course I knew that drink.
Inles were f~attening. 80 I cut them out;
hut, oh. what a thirst / hadl So 1 decided
that I would drink, but I would drink the
right sort Of things.
Il noticed that the Westerners were gen.
srally thin, particularly those right on the
Pacific Coast. Why are your patients all
thipY I asked a doctor who practlsed there
a long time. Because they drink no water
kaid he. .
so, working along this idea. I obtained
enough grape Juice, fermented and I'M
fermented, to last me a long time, and
drank it, but not at meals. With a clock
timed my drinks.
Nothing for two hours after eating is
che rule, and r~eligiously I wait two hours
before drinking anything. Breakfast Is
the exception. Here I drink as much as I
please.
Then In my drinking did another thing.
I learned what would quenoh thirst. I
found that a mouthful Of fruit was better
than a quart Of water. So I took fruit
when I felt thirsty.
In the eating line I was careful about
euears. Sweets. while they are healthful,
certainly do fatten one. and I took care
10 take no more sweet stuff than had to.
sItook a trip to Berlin last summer simply
for the purpose of getting a dietary. I
can tell you just what to eat said the
doctor, IL you will eat IT. L PROMISED
and he wrote it out. ,
1T is the diet they give you at the mud
baths. 1t is famous. but I can't say / like
A.. though it does make you thin.
For breakfast you have one small cup
~ coffee and all the stale brown bread you
want, If YOU need butter you can sprinkle
talt upon your bread. which tastes quite a
little like butter IL your eyes are shut.
In the middle of the morning you can
'drinL water. and the more the better. At
room you can have a tiny cup OF strong
hot tea and all the brown bread you want
end all the fruit, but nothing else;
Won can drink hot water in the mlddle
nj tbe afternoon If you feel thirsty, but
cont take it hot enough to burn your
stomach.
For dinner at night eat anything you
want. and all you want OF u, ~ s You You
ing meal later than 8 o'clock, and II you
are where you can get your meals when you
want them, don't eat later than S o o'clock,
in the evening take a long walk, OF
your mind SO much for the diet
II helped my case along by the hard
work system. / worked as hard as l coulc
70! fh rose h at hai L p past 9, which is a soot
timely hour, and 1 did a deal Of housework
Nothing thins you quite like doing house,
work, I like it, and it certainly takes on
my flesh. d,ha,
cleaned the windows and astonished thu
.Fervants by sweeping my own room. House
work makes you pretty, they say, Tor II
gives both mind and body plenty OF exer
else. had my fill Of it, and grew thinnel
Il know a famous beauty who takes he
place at a little washboard every day anc
heroically launders her lingerie waists
" 1t is so good for the waist line, say
the as she scrubs at the tub, A.
And I know another who takes tn
broom in hand every day, and anothe
who polishes the furniture and does house
hold stunts generally One day she bea
the rugs on the roof, another day sh'
nut down a stair carpet, and still anothe
she washed windows. 1T is all in the in
forest Of losing weight she explained U
me as she showed me how her belt line wa
shrinking.
Il have tried the Turkish baths for reduc
ing weight. and they are good; but on
must work in accord with them, =.
you can't expect the Turkish bath U
do it all. You must do part for yourself,
Il used to AXE a Turkish bath in tn
middle of the day and spend the rest OF tn
Gay in bed eating chocolates linen, some
times, I took a bath in the morning and Il
the afternoon ! slept. waking only for
good cup of coffee and some nice cakes,
One day l came from the Turkish bath
ate a heavy luncheon, came home and slep
until next day. 1 called it the rest cure
il added five pounds to my weight.
"Ilearned that women put on flesh taste
than they think. 4 woman can add thre
pounds over Sunday without trying,
case Of this kind happened not long ago.
A woman stout and tired, one OF the ia
puffy kind, decided to take the rest cure,
II am going to bed, to stay in bed for
week said she. My nerves are tired.
But, Madame said the Swedish MAJ
seuse, you will become. very stout =,
The woman differed with her. On tn
contrary said she. ! shall reduce m m
weight, for l shall rest and diet and b
nassaged.f
The Swedish masseuse said no NOR
she massaged faithfully, but with poe
results. The woman lay in bed a weei
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