The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-08
Thin Women
May Hope
How They Can Go About the
Task of Putting on
Flesh.

good looks.
The wall OF the stout woman is over
the land. There are special doctors for
her, all manner of suggestions made for
her, tones are compounded TO make
her happier.
a Yet no one thinks of her thin sister,
who is Just as unfortunate as far as
looks go as the fat one Clothes have
to be built up on her, she is always
getting more sympathy than she wants
and she looks i'll even if she is not so.
Some women are born thin, and some
achieve II through a lack of the right
food and worry. While every one
wishes 70 be slender or give the APP
pearanee of it, no one wants TO be
really thin.
Even the extremists who reduce
themselves to slight measurements be
cause they want to have the fashion
able figure. take very good care to keep
the bones from being too prominent.
Leave Medicine Alone.
The thin girl-the one who is really
thin-has hollows in her neck and I'm
der her arms, and the flesh drops away
from the bones Of the face in a siekly
manner.
Health is what every one must have
to be good-looking, and neither the
over-thin nor the over-fat woman Is
healthy. Both Of them need TO lead
more intelligent lives. They can leave
medicines alone.
It is odd that the stout woman be
walls her lot more than the thin. one.
Probably this is because she is more
uncomfortable. 1t is Just as difficult
to teach her how to train as it is 10
compel the thin woman to do it.
Self-indulgenee is the trouble Of the
former and nervous worry is the secret
of the others misfortune. One takes
life too comfortably; the other lets life
worry her during every hour.
The inventions of pharmacists and
the advice of physicians are both at
the beck and call of the stout woman,
for she has made her trouble heard
everywhere.
The thin woman. however, has very
few advisers. and the physicians do not
get rich in helping her. She is often
treated with tonies for breakdown
of the nerves or slow action of the
heart. but il is rare she is built up
as far as flesh is concerned.
Flesh Makes Health.
It Is astonishing how much the mere
building up of flesh has done for thin
nervous women. Without drop OF
medicine they have become sturdy and
well.
Flesh has quieted the nerves, sooth- !
ed the- mind. banished worry and made
an optimist out of pessimist. When
the nerves are padded with good
amount Of strong, hard flesh they re- !
sisf all kinds Of shocks and make their
owner take life easier.
This is an accomplished fact How
to do II Is not a difficult problem, but
making up one mind to do it is quite
another thing. It needs at least SIX
months in time and a regular routine
that can not be broken through
The first essential is ten hours Of
sleep out of every twenty-four. If a
woman can afford the time she should |
also lie down in a quiet, darkened
room for three hours every afternoon
The argument against this Is that 1t
takes too much time out of ones life |
True. but it adds years to ones life
at the end. A woman viii go into this
experiment of sleep and rest with |
good deal Of enthusiasm, but she VIII
not let any diversion break 1t up.
To he successful she must make up /
her mind 10 giving up six months OF
her life to gain flesh and nerve power
This Is a very small space OF time u
comparison 70 the result.
It is possible that she viii not sleep |
well at first, but this does not alter
the fact that she must remain in bed i
T-suallv the Thin. neTvous woman en-
lows the enforced rest very much she
feels comfortable in being ordered 10
take II for her health 5 sake.
Plenty Of Air.
Another part Of the routine IS to
enur- The fresh air and sunshine. II
her lie Is so arranged that she can 60 !
one r7--1e durinU the dav. she should /
- in a room with the windows oDen.
vi-b a warm sweater and high shoes 10
protect her from the cold
She viii soon find il unbearaole %
remain in a heated room with the wiz
dnws closed. This Is the first sign that
her nervous condition j. geIIhs