The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-02
The Ideal
Figure

To fix the standard of cne's physical
measurements and make ones figure
conform to it is an ideal many women
have dreamed of. Now and then some
woman makes efforts, in the way of
dieting and Turkish baths, to realize
it. But she seldom really hopes 1t is
just dream. There is one woman,
however, who set out to attain this
ideal and succeeded - Miss Maude
Odell, whose beauty won the English
$4,000 prize. Miss Odell set out when
she was a girl of fourteen to 'have
perfect figure and how she did it she
tells in the April New Idea.
Fresh air and exercise are the agents
that she used. RULES abhor," she
says. II eat when I am hungry, and
always did. I sleep when I am sleepy,
and I always have a good circulation,
as 1 look after the circulation when I
first wake up, and never lose sight of
it during the day. I consider it when
l am out of doors, and it prevents me
from taking cold"
When Miss Odell wakes up in the
morning she jumps out of bed-"never
allowing myself she says, "to think
how comfortable the bed is''-and goes
TO the open window and takes deep
breaths until she is Drumming full of
ozone Then. lying on the floor, she
relaxes completely, fiat on her back
lies so for a moment; then springs to
sitting posture, keeping her feet
close together and motionless, and
gers. This process, she says, keeps
her from getting fat After this she
goes at her breathing exercises again,
and then takes bath-warm to begin
with, then cooled gradually till the
water is ''the coolest that can come
through the faucet" Afterwards she
has her tea, toast, egg and sometimes
"a bit of bacon; dresses, reads or
writes while, and then goes out to
walk. If she is hungry when she
comes in she doesn't ask, "Is it time
for luncheon?" She eats instead,
choosing what she wants. For dinner
she takes soup, fish, roast, Vegetables,
whatever there is. Milk, apparently,
forms a large part of her diet. ''I no.
ticed, she says, shat nearly
all my girl friends munched at sweets
while resting, and I always said to
them: You do not need such things,
but if you must be eternally feeding
yourself. take glass of milk and
drink it slowly"
It was to Sandow that Miss Odell
went when, at fourteen, she made up
her mind that she was not going to
have ga fiat chest, one hip bigger than
the other, a double chin. or anything
superfuous in flesh or blood - She
told Sandow that she wanted to be
beautiful. "Stand up straight he
answered, "and never rest on one hip
again - From that moment she began
going through prescribed exercises
s'with conscientious regularity 1t
means s'work, work. work. she says.
and she emphasizes the Importance of
beginning early in life; every mo-
ment IS delay in correctly shaping the
physique is dangerous.
Sandow, she says, told her not to
worry about her face. "You look af-
ter your body" he said, "and you
will have no trouble with your face. !"
She treats her face as she does the
rest of her body-washes it clean, and
then splashes it with cold water to
keep the circulation good. "If
wrinkles came to the surface,' she
says, 81 should know that I was not
doing enough exercising or that I was
careless in eating or with the hours
was keeping
Miss Odell IS chest measure is thirty
eight inches, her bust forty, and her