The sun., 1909-02-21
PEAUTY TALK BY
- MRS. RUBBERlNO
She Gives Encouragement and
Good Advice to a Friend
Who Is Reducing.

Who Is Reducing.
"You mean thing for not coming to see
me oftenerl- said Mrs Rubberino 70 her
visitor. i've been just crazy to learn
how you are making out with your bant-
ing-I've heard about 1t, you see.
Howl It's not banting but reducing
by exercise2 Well isn't II the same thing
my dcar1 Oh, banting is dieting, is it'
We'll. you never could take OF any
flesh by dieting, could you, my dear1
It must be grand thing to have an appe-
tite like yours. Mrs. Daily was saying
only the other day that she never met
a woman who could eat 80 heartily as you,
and that must be a fine thing, only OF
course IL is rather bad when one Is in
clined to become mountainous, as IL were,
now isn't jt'
And how long have you been trying
to reduce by exercising? Nearly two
months' Dear me. how patient you
must be! You've taken Of eleven pounds9
Mercy Who would have supposed i'll
Eleven pounds Well, that is quite
a lot, isn't it2 But it certainly hasn't
come on your hips, my dear, has it1 And
| suppose you are particularly anxious
to reduce thereP The reason | say that
Ia because all Of the fat women know
are perfectly bound and determined to
wear Directoire dresses, and, dear me.
how deficient they must be in the sense
Of humor.
AT the Plaza during the tea hour the
other day ] saw fully dozen hideously
fat women waddling around In Directoire
dresses. They we're all wearing Harvey
lied steel corsets almost down to their
knees--it's wonder they could breathe
but they all looked like tenpins dressed
up, just the same. and l could see the
men sniokering when they looked at them.
You may know that woman looks ridic-
ulous when men snicker at her.
How? Oh, you have no idea Of adopt
ing the Directoire style. then? Well,
my dear, am glad to hear that, really.
felt all along that you had too keen
sense Of the absurd TO render yourself
open to laughter in such a way.
We'll my dear. do tell me all about it
how you exercise, | mean. Do you take
what they call room exercises-roll and
grovel around the floor of your room ?
Land sakes It must be terrifcally funny
to Zee a fat woman rolling around on the
floor OF her room. kicking up her heels
and groaning over the misery Of il!
Whatever else you do, my dear, don't,
for mercy sake. ct your husband see
you doing that,
-Oh. you don't take the room exer-
cises then? You are attending a women 8
gymnasium?
-Oh. do take me there some time,
won't you? And are all of the women
there trying to reduce their weight
Well, that must be one gorgeous spec
tacle. Are visitors adm tted9 l GER
tainly would love TO see them. Tell me.
dearie. is IL true that nearly all very fat
women are bowleggedf I've heard that,
but Of course must be joke.
But, my dear, If you really do sue
ceed in taking Of a few pounds by the
way. what do you weigh now? Oh,
please don't ask me to to guess I'm
an awfully poor weight guesser You
see. you're so short. That's probably
what makes you look stouter than you
really are.
We'll, as | say. I'm dreadful!y poor
guesser of folks weights, but really
| shouldn't imagine that you weigh much
more than-Yell. let me see; oh, about
2l5 or ?2O pounds. What? Really? Only
l7s? II that isn't Astonishing!
Are you perfectly sure, my dear.
that the scales you weighed on are rightf
Some Of these penny in the slot scales.
you know, are purposely fixed up so as
to hatter fat. Oh. you were weighed on
the gymnasium scales! Well. isn't that
all the more reason for fancying that the
scales couldn't have been right? For,
you know. most of the women at the
gymnasium are trying TO reduce their
weight. and Of course the scales at such a
place would be made hattering.
But. as | started to cay. supposing
you do reduce little, why, do you really
suppose that you d be able to keep down
to that weight very long? ! know one
woman who by exercising as il she was
going to engage in a prizefght and by
almost starving herself to death did sue
ceed in taking of nearly thirty pounds,
and my, how she did cackle and gloat
over the rest Of the fat women Of her
acquaintance. She sold all Of her clothes
because they wouldn't come anywhere
near fitting her after she'd got of the
thirty pounds.
But the terrific work she had to do and
the starving-and ] think she took a lot
Of silly obesity drugs too-ran her health
down and affected her heart, and her
doctor made her stop the whole business
out Of hand. Well my dear. you ought
tove seen that woman take on flesh just
as soon as she stopped her yiolent.exer-
csing and her starving
Isn't it too bad though, that when
fat women are able to reduce a little the
reducing process always makes them per-
feet frights SO far as their faces are con-
cerned? hope that doesn't happen TO
you my dear. but you couldn't expect
to be an exception, could you'
Then, too. most fat women imagine
that all they've got to do is to take OF
some OF their flesh and that then they u
have figures Just like Mary Gardens or
Annette Kellermann's. The idea As a
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