The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-08-17
THE STOUT WOMAN.
Her Passing-There Are Many Ways
to Cure Obesity.

iC papers tell us IIldJ there is mol
single member of the -four hun
amount of embonpoint Fat has be-
come banished. If a woman becomes
unWleldly in person it is because she
is either lazy or ignorant
one great trouble in the reduction
OF the too weighty ones is that they
never think they are so. It seems to
require, as the poet Burns told US
Keen wits to gauge ourselves, even our
physical proportions in spite of the
tact that a weighing machine con-
fronts US on almost every corner.
Having discovered that you are
gaining flesh too fast, how may you
turn about and retrace your steps? No
time should be lost, for if you once be-
come obese, the stretched cuticle will
lie in folds upon your face, and your
wrinkles will become most unsightly
if you Danish your adipose tissue too
fast. Many woman who began
gravely to ''bant" or to fletcher" has
weakened when she has seen how I'M
becoming the process is to her cOun-
tenance. When one finds that one is
gaining at the rate of five or ten or
more pounds per year, and one is car
rying already ones normal weight of
flesh, it is time to take thought and
mend ones way (no pun intended).
You can do this most easily by re-
sorting to the light breakfast. One
ambitious woman ate her other meals
as usual. but took only an apple for
her breakfast. She reverted in a few
months to her normal condition. An
excellent doctor declares that he could
cure any but the most extreme cases
Of indigestion by insisting that his
patients eat only zwieback, with some
sort of a warm drink for breakfast,
He said that the restoration of proper
digestion eQualized the other functions
of the body, so that the too thin were
made fat, and the too fat. thin.
The daily papers are full of sugges-
tons for the stout woman. She may
have passed out of sight among the
ultra fashionable. but she is among the
rest of us in large numbers, and the
writer's Of toilet hints have seen her
and mean to reform her. Their ad
vice should be most cautiously taken.
Often it is very bad.
Every good doctor has some special
diet for reducing weight. Some of
these diets" are drastic-others are
fairly commendable. One might as well
look around and find the easiest. 1t is
Just as likely to produce the effect as
is the disagreeable kind.
Or you can do all sorts of exercises,
which. if you are careful and judicious,
will, in the slang of the day, mean
great deal to you" You may need to
do them for only ten or fifteen minutes
each morning and night and if you do
them as you ought the results will be
But it is usually diet, after all,
which brings about the gradual and
proper shrinkage most to be desired.
1t is amusing TO see how nearly all of
the rules include spinach Avoid pota-
toes; eat spinach; let bread alone;
take spinach instead. Have nothing to
do with beets or turnips. WHY should
you desire them, when you may have
that delectable edible, spinach? And so
on.
The thin people, unless they are
i'll, have generally no wish
to change their condition. One can
scarcely be too thin for the prevailing
modes. "Oh, yes--I lost flesh under
that diet" sighed a woman who stood
five feet three in her fashionable five
inch heels and who weighed 100 pounds.
II lost twenty pounds inside of two
but, oh, how my cheeks be-
gan to droop and wrinkle up! My
waist grew smaller, and I felt lighter
and lighter but l couldn't stand the
face I was acquiring. I thought 1 had
better lace a little more and keep my
round, plump face"
The question of health was entirely
lost to view in the far greater import
ance of appearance.