The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-01-11

ldHllIy WOulQ SCOrn COuCn.
There is in New York boarding
house for thin women. At a rather
high rate of board they taken women
who are underweight and they fatten
them up. It takes six or eight weeks
according to the person, but never yet
have they turned away a boarder as
hopeless.
For breakfast they give the thin
sister as much cocoa as she can drink
and all the hot breads she can eat
and as much sweet butter on her hot
bread as it will carry. Thin women do
not like butter, but the hot bread is
buttered for the guests, so it is a ques-
ton of eating it, all buttered, or going
without.
A Diet for Thin Women.
1.-THE thin sister suffers from indiges-
ton and for this there are some simple
remedies given with the food. Before
meals there is little charcoal tablet
and tiny sulphur tablet Is taken
after meals. But the thin sister is not
to depend upon medication. She is to
eat very slowly and to masticate or
"Fletcherize" her food. Fletcher chews
each mouthful three minutes. This
will cure almost the worst case of indi-
gestiOn.
1.-The thin woman is generally a very
heavy eater, but she eats the things
that do not fatten; she is also very
nervous and her head aches. But, as
she changes her diet, these symptoms
disappear, her complexion improves
and she becomes fat with a pretty,
plumpish flesh that is very becoming
to her.
IAN even frame Of mind is advised
Tor the thin woman. If she will think
pleasant thoughts and sing gay songs
so that she cannot worry she will find
her flesh hardening. There is nothing
like peaceful frame of mind for the
accumulation of fat
queen Alexandra struggles each day
with tendency to leanness. Her sis
tiers are very thin and her mother was
slender. The queen was at one time
decidedly too thin for beauty, and her
gowns were padded and every artifice
was tried in order to give her figure
that roundness so necessary for beau
ty. Finally, however, she adopted a
diet which put flesh on her bones and
gave her that creamy skin which is
so much admired ~ .
Then queen takes her bread spread
with cream, instead of butter: and she
eats five or six tiny meals a day. This
is to keep the stomach from getting
empty and the nerves from becoming
acute. The thin woman suffers from
street noises; little things bother her;
she is 2 bunch and bundle of nerves.
But diet Of sweet cream, brown
bread, cocoa and sugars in various
forms will act as a sedative to the
nerves, providing the diet is not car
ried TOO far. The thin woman must
not make herself sick eating sweets.
Deep breathing is wonderfully effec-
tive in the matter Of putting flesh on
the chest. The thin woman, with a fiat
chest, should open the windows and
| take long, deep breaths of air, many
times day. It would be good thing
| II she could sleep in the open air,
winter and summer, and if she would
| remain out Of doors most of her wax
| ing hours. ...- ..s-
Exercises for Thin Women.
, The woman who is too fat must
| walk In the open air in order to create
| the energy to burn UP her flesh. And
| strange to say, the very same process
| will fatten the thin woman. Her di-
/ sestlon will improve, and she will put
ON layer of smooth white flesh.
Arm exercise is splendid for the
| woman who is too thin. The house
worker is almost always stout; she is
! we'll developed across the bust and
chest. The woman who works at the
wash tubs Is fat: so is the sweeper;
and so are almost all indoor women.
1t Is the motion with the arms that
develops the muscles, quiets the nerves
| and makes a woman fat.
Massage is one of the most fatten-
Ing of all agencies; and the woman
who is thin as a rail can put on flesh
by rubbing in certain flesh forming
foods. In one Of the physical culture
schools they sell little jar of flesh
food which Is to last just six days. A
portion Of it must be rubbed in each
day. The food is made my mixing
equal parts Of white wax, white vase
line and lanolin. And to this is added
an equal quantity Of almond oil. A
little altar Of rose scents it nicely.
This is rubbed into the skin until the
flesh feels soft. 1t acts as bleach
as we'll as skin food.
THE woman who wants to get fat
will learn to smile. Nothing adds to
ones flesh like the habit of smiling.
Laugh and grow fat is no joke. Think
sweet thoughts and you will be plump.
| The thin woman has wrinkles in her
| face and she must fatten her Jaws in
| order to plump out her skin and Danish
! the wrinkles. There are skin foods for
fattening the face and for Pumping
! the body. To make the face fatter
| take some good flesh food, or wrinkle
cream, and rub the wrinkles upward.
There are certain movements for
fattening the face. The first is the
| upward movement from the tip of the
chin to the ears. Don't rub downward
| or you will make the flesh sag. Take
a handful of the wrinkle cream, warm
it slightly in the palm Of the hand and
rub both hands together until they are
full Of the creamy paste. Now begin
at the tip Of the chin and rub upward
toward the ears. It is the finest of all
facial massage motions.
| Massage for Fattening the Face.
1.-THE hands will need to be moistened
once or twice with the cream and the
motion must be steadily upward right
from the tip Of the chin to the ears
q dozen or more strokes to the minute
This does away with the double chin:
cures the sagging of the muscles; and
makes the face pretty oval.
"The second Of the massage motions
for fattening the face, is the forehead
motion. Wet the tips Of the fingers
with skin food and go across the fore
head gently from side to side, fatten-
ing out the wrinkles and smoothing