The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1908-01-11
HOW TO GET FAT
If YOU ARE THIN
Advice to the Women Whose Bones Stick Out and Whose
s, Skin Is Dried and Yellow.

I| SIhNI d WnOle year In japan
~ studying the subject of fat
and lean," said physical Gull
teacher. And, at the end of
~ that time I went to Germany
to complete my education.
The Germans, after all, know more
about it. from our point of view.
The Japanese woman never gets fat.
She understands the nutritive values
OF her food. And she eats just the right
amount to keep her weighing just so
much. She will keep her weight for
lifetime at say, 120 pounds, without
ever varying a single pound. She
knows how to keep her equilibrium
She does not get thin and she does not
get fat. She Is interesting as study.
But her knowledge would be of little
value in this part of the world, be-
sause of her limited diet.
THE German woman, on the other
hand struggles constitutionally, with
sither an excess of weight or with too
little. She always goes to extremes,
and her methods for keeping her flesh
down are consequently highly interest
ing. In the German health resorts they
have brought it down to perfect sci
once.
when the Japanese woman wants
10 get thin, she eats nothing for break
fast, but a little rice. At noon she
drinks pint of warm milk, eating
nothing at all. This reduces her very
quickly, but none but japanese wom-
an could keep strong and we'll on such
y rigid diet ...t
when the Japanese woman wants
TO get tat she eats potatoes, drinks
milk, takes as many raw eggs as pos
s1ble and INDUCES in. the starchy sauces
and sweet cakes for which Japan Is
famous. 1t fattens her, but the excess
sive sweetness of the diet would not be
agreeable to all palates. ..s -
The German way Of getting fat is
much more reasonable, and in this sea-
son when all women must be COM
eortably clothed with flesh it is in
eerest1ng. I may stop right here to
say that this is the most trying year
within the memory Of physical cur
eurlsts A woman must be just at nor
mai; no more and no less. If she has
good hips she is above normal and is
not pretty; if she is flat in the chest
she Is undeveloped and lacks style The
solution lies in making her at just the
right weight.
1T is easy to take down fat and so
much has been written about reducing
Che weight that it is almost unneces-
sary to say word more. The woman
who weighs 200 and who would like
TO lose fifty pounds, can easily do so.
Getting rid Of your pounds is one of
the easiest things in the world. It is
merely matter OF self denial, but get
ting fat Is much more difficult.
Women Who Are Naturally Thin.
There are women who seem born
TO be thin. They have hands that look
like claws, their arms are mere bone
with yellow skin drawn over the sin
ewy length; they are flat in the chest
and they have no shape at all. They
are thin as rails and there Is no beauty
IN them. Nobody ever admired very
smaciated woman.
But with the fat woman it is diff
ferent, for she can always reduce her
weight to the point of being prettily
proportioned.
Getting fat Is tedious, unless you
know just how to do it. But, if you do
understand the art, you can add to
your weight several ounces a day.
You must learn to move slowly;
your actions must be deliberate
You must get out of the habit of
hustling.
you must forget the fact that you
have obligations and engagements; or,
you must learn not to worry about
them. Thin people are great worriers.
you must, if you are thin, learn how
60 sleep. Scrawny people are poor
aleepers; they are restless and full Of
bad dreams, insomnia is favorite dis