The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18

gish, your digestion is not good, your flesh
il too soft, your circulation is bad, and
all because of your mode Of life.' Then
the doctor laid down his orders. some of
which ! do not dream of following. can't
follow them short OF offending every friend
l have.
Il intend to spend Lent in New York,
however, and after consulting with some
of my friends, who are in the same box as
myself, here is the programme 1 mean to
stick to between now n Good Friday:
MY doctors prescription puts first early
rising, therefore ! expect to be out of bed
every morning by half pas. 6, and one hour
later will find me walking up Fifth avenue
The morning, not the afternoon, SAYS the
prescription. Is the time for exercise, and
walking beats gymnastics all to peices.
One or two hours of out of door exercise
taken after a very light breakfast zones
first in nv Lanten programme.
The doctor didn't even take kin dly
to the idea Of my slipping out Of town for
go,lf or tennis. That plan would involve
other excitement and Irregularities, he 10
afraid, eEd give ne a chance to keep up
my usual chatter. The New York woman.
! pointed cut that if u woman sat quietly
without talking she was voted dull, tbs
aLswer ! got W. g this:
Exactly. For that reason, I want you
weeks-keep away from it at least a few
hours every day So l promised"
And sfter your exercise. what does
your pre- scription call for?"
when | reach home at eleven, say, ]
am to drink a glass of milk or bout lon and
then my beauty doctor comes in-although
that is rot in the pre- soription. / ha We
my face, hands ard hair after ded to, after
which ! Il Ike lur oh quietly with my family.
/ am prohibited from giving a luncheon
the rec son that from ? to 8 o'clock l must
lie down, whetherI sleep or not, and remain
perfectly quiet. / must not read even.
For the rest of the day / can do pretty
, much i,i1 as So ! II Plei e Ed exert pS thtt <. I must
ard an hour earlier il po ssible; eat no late
suppers, take nothing richer before re-
firing h a cup Of milk or chocolate,
and cut out wines from my daily menu.
for at least five weeks; but Of course l
al keep, strictly to that. One must
attend to clothes"
And do the reasons you give for staying
ii town during Lent hold good in the majority
fashionable women than usual are now
going out Of town for Lent?"
ITO some e! lent. The best skin special
lists and massage operators and hair dyere
are in New York, and it is in Lent that
women have the most time to give to them.
A friend Of mine, after shutting herself
up for five weeks in Lent one year ago,
emerged quito a beauty; Her hair was a
different shade, her wrinkles had vanished.
her complexion was like a baby's. She had
grown simmer, t~oo-however she managed
it without exercising.
Some women l know are staying in New
York for economical motives, to save get
ting an extra SUI inner wardrobe such as
one must have for a Southern watering
place. Others don't care for hotel life az
one now finds it at most resorts, with ite
mixture of all sorts Of people from every
where. Ibeheve, too, that the mild weather
has had a lot TO do with keeping folks in
town at this season. Let a blizzard or two
come along and dozens Of my friends would
undoubtedly make a Decline South