The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-21
FASHION FANCIES

10 attain fashionable SlendernesS. |
Housework is the very latest cure !
recommended for obesity. 1t IS said TO |
beat all the ten minute exercises. turk !
ish bath, massage or gymnasium work |
in getting OF flesh.
Excess Of weight seems now to be
4 general complaint among American
women. Only invalids seem TO have
the natural slenderness that is so much !
desired. Doctors are besieged with pa
ttents wishing to take off fat at any
cost, in sanitariums women are liv-
ing on little more than milk for the
purpose of taking off from ten to forty
pounds within a given time
That Homework is a healthful ex-
ercise has long been declared by the
medical fraternity. Doctors have been
prescribing homework as a cure for
nervous prostration for years now with
good results. Women whose white
hands were unaccustemed TO anything
but piano playing as an exercise were
directed to sweep. dust, make beds,
scrub and even wash and iron and in
order that the cure be followed in
earnest rather than as a fad the first
step demanded was that servants be
dispensed with and entire charge OF
I
Now the idea is that If a woman
cannot spend thousand on a reduc-
tion cure and would take UP the house
work course with the same application
and enthusiasm she can accomplish the
same results in less time. In the first
place she must arise at five o'clock
which alone is a fat reducer and keep
this up faithfully for six months. Now
as exercise before breakfast is most
important the woman who take the
homework cure should choose her
| heaviest work for the first part of the
day. She should for instance scrub the
kitchen and terrible as this sounds to
| the woman 1T is not half so fatiguing
as a brisk walk of several blocks.
More than that. it is a splendid ex-
ercise, positively splendid when 1t is
taken with the idea of its purpose and
plenty of energy is thrown into the
movements The reason that the aV-
erage scrubwoman has not a good fig
ure is because she performs the act
without the mental upHft and often in
the spirit Of drudgery.
1t is just the same way in regard to
the work of washing. The bending of
the body is excellent for the torso and
the waist. The rubbing is fine for the
arms and while it may redden the skin
of the hands it takes off all fat from
| the fingers and wrists. I do not think
ironing Is so healthful for women, al
though 1t certainly reduces flesh
Now after the morning half hour or
more spent in scrubbing the patient
may take a good, warm scrub bath,
throwing plenty of energy into the
movements and ending with a cold
shower and a rundown with a rough
towel.
She then can prepare breakfast and
If she eats with her family she must
rigidly abstain from cereals and cream
fried cakes, corn fritters and things
OF that kind. Otherwise / let my pa
tients have what they please when they
take the homework cure, for they must
have strength to perform the various
tasks of the day.
A slight rest after breakfast and
, then comes one of the best hours OF
the day so far as taking off flesh is
concerned. that devoted to bed making
The movements required in turning
mattresses, spreading sheets and
blankets, etc, are all excellent The
bending exercises which occurs so fire.
quently In household duties are al
! good for the large waist.
Then there are sweeping and busting
both very beneficial for this purpose
also. The shaking of rugs and the
sweeping down and the busting or g
stairway call for another set OF move
ments and should never be neglected.
In busting the high places should be
: reached by climbing a short, firm
, ladder rather than by using a Ions
handled brush. Climbing is good exer.
else and work which takes the arm:
, above the head brings other muscles
into play.
. In fact. every department OF house
work calls for a different posture of thu
body and a different reach This Il
why it is so effective in getting of
l flesh.
; The work must not be drudget
. through in a lazy fashion, of course
! and the windows must be open ant
, plenty of air circulating. A great dea
OF perspiration will be induced at frs
!, If the patient is over-stout.
Each day some special task should b.
taken for two hours in the afternoon
j the cleaning out of a closet or the pol
] fishing of silver, the cooking Of som
dish, any duty that viii prevent TIL
Z eternal sitting down, lunching an
Iounging that constitute the day OF s
, many women.
Activity. mentally and bodily, that
{ the secret of flesh reduction. and 1t ca
. be accomplished by means of house
T work better than by gymnasium exer
! cises If IT is taken up intelligently.
t Did you ever hear of an orris mOut
: wash? It is just the dandiest prepare
8 ton imaginable for rinsing out tn
: mouth the first thing in the mornin
while one is dressing. The orri
comes in tablet form and can be dis
: solved in water for use. 1t gives
{ delightful fragrance to the breath, an
icleanses the teeth as well.
These sandwiches are just the thin
5 for the mother who has to pack schoc
y lunches. The girls can do the wor
\ themselves and they cost very little
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