The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-05-26

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"willowy," as she likes to express
the condition; skinny" to quote
her plain-spoken brother. Which
reasons combine to render the milk
diet beauty treatment favorable in hei
eyes.
This treatment, perennially beloved
of women, was freshly brought to
Marcella's attention by Janet, who
has just returned from Germany with
many strange ''cures" for all manner
of real and imaginary beauty all
ments. Janet really is lovely girl,
therefore she is never content to let
well enough alone in regard to her
personal appearance. She came home
devoted to the milk diet, which, as
she solemnly averred to Marcella,
had done wonders for her.
.'You may not remember" /" said
Janey, who has been pink and white
and charming from her cradle, "but
when left home year ago I was
quite thin and sallow. Well, I
tried great many things, because. !
really believed it's the duty of poor,
stupid women like myself, who have
only good looks to commend them,
TO keep young and fresh looking as
long as possible. But nothing help
ed me like the milk treatment. 1t
literally transformed my complexion
and form.
''You begin with two quarts a day
and get up to gallon" she further
instructed her eager listener. "Then,
if you can, you add from a pint to a
quart of cream. You'll put on flesh
at rate that will surprise you, and
your skin will soon look like that of
of child. I'm taking FIVE quarts of
milk and cream a day"
The admiring Marcella, her eyes
feasting on Janet's fresh beauty made
immediate plans to go and do like
wise. She informed her landlady
that very evening that she had been
placed on special diet, and hence
forth, for an indefinite period, would
only retain her room, without table
privileges. She also ordered two
quarts of milk sent to her room daily.
Janet had advised deferring the cream
for week.
The landlady, good-natured soul,
used to the ways, vagaries and
economics of art students, smiled
wisely in secret, but said nothing.
She confidently expected to welcome
Marcella back to her basement board
as soon as the first of the month
brought the regular parental letter
and check. Meanwhile she unwit-
tingly made Marcella's path hard by
unaccustomed gifts of cake, sand
wiches, and odd cups of coffee night
and morning. The wonderful Mar
cella's pride was always soothed with
some well-constructed story of how
someone had ordered supper or break
fast sent upstairs only to refuse to
consume it. The worst of the affair
was that the landlady almost invaria-
bly, sat upon the edge of the bed
the tiny ballroom only afording the
single chair she insisted that Marcel
la should retain-until the food had
disappeared.
'I'm not going to have the poor,
dear child starve in my house, just
because she's been foolish, and spent
too much money on some girlish rub
bish or other this;month, " the kindly
woman would explain to herself as
she smilingly trudged downstairs af-
ter breaking in upon. Marcella's die
tary peace for the day. II never did
take any stock in this idea of milk
being good for grown people to live
on"
And, alas! many of Marcella' S
friends, though unconscious Of the
girls desperate attempts towards
beauty, seemed possessed of similar
idea. A girl comraIe returned from
her vacation laden with fruit for Mar
celia; man friend sent chocolates.
Even Janet, who lived comfortably at
home with her parents, kept inviting
Marcella to dinner.
"You can just take milk with me,
while the others stuff themselves with
heavy food, 4" she would explain. ia
net, it should be added, professed to
care nothing for solids any longer,
while Marcella, despite the three
quarts of milk which she speedily at
tanned, was continually hungry.
Another friend to whom Marcella con-
fidentially whispered her reason for
no longer going out to luncheon with
certain other members of the class,
insisted that eggs should be added to
the list.
"Milk is lovely for the skin and tc
make flesh, said she. 1--WE tried it,
and know that it makes one over in
a hurry. But it's very bad for the
hair, my dear child. Your hair
will all fall out if you don't supply
certain other elements. You must
take four fresh eggs a day in addition
to the milk
Now, Marcella's hair is her strong
est point, so the eggs were speedily
added. Another friend explained
that some fresh fruit, preferably
grapes should be regularly partaken
of for the sake of color and general
freshness. Still another Insisted upon
tomatoes daily, for similar reasons.
Janet, who looked on with interest,
now began to prescribe the daily
quart of cream.
At the end of month, therefore,
Marcella was laboriously consuming
four quarts of milk, one quart oi
cream, four fresh eggs, pound o.
grapes, and three tomatoes every day
"a diet somewhat unusual and not
even to be recommended on the
grounds of economy, as Marcella hat
at first hoped. She was also becom
ing severely afflicted with indigestion
and insomnia, while the beautifyint
effects of the regimen were slow II
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