Arizona republican., 1910-06-08
SIMPLE REDUCTION METHOD OF
 A SOUTHERN WOMAN.
1t Consists of a Diet of Apples and Crackers and Bending Exercises
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 Twice a Day. If any woman wants to reduce without the expense of a physical trainer let her try the apple and cracker diet and just one exercise for twenty minutes, night and morning, woman verging on 40 confided to a party of friends who were lunching with her Last summer I put on forty pounds of extra flesh while nursing my husband at a mountain resort On my return to town there seemed nothing for it but to sacrifice my winters clothes and take a reduc ing course under one of the physical trainers recommended to me by my friends
 'I referred to the subject regret fully one day in speaking to a friend, a Southern woman, and she hoOted at the idea of my paying money for so simple a thing as getting rid of flesh. You can get it off by simply re- versing the method of putting it on.' she said.
 Then she went on to tell me how she had repeatedly brought herself into condition by a simple diet and
 
 not convinced that her slender figure was the result of such simple and inexpensive methods. l consented to give it a two weeks trial before go- ing to a trainer.
 The next morning I began, taking my exercise immediately after my bath It was just the old fashioned stretching exercise of our grandmoth- CTS, extending your arms above your head, rising on tiptoe, then bending. without bending your knees, and touching your toes with your hands It is not so easy as it sounds, and I only managed to accomplish it three times that morning
 For breakfast l had two lunch crackers and one apple. for luncheon the same and for dinner ditto. That night I went through the exercises and was gratified to find that I could touch my toes with more ease. l had expected not to be able to sleep on account of my light diet. Instead. slept the whole night through, some thing l had not done in months. The next morning I touched my toes six times. That night my fin gers and toes came together eight times and I was not conscious of be- ing hungry. The next morning I was able to go through my exercises ten times, the number mentioned by my friend as desirable
 As she had said that I might eat after the second day when I was hun gry, l began to look forward to the time when that sensation would mani fest itself. I had to wait until the middle of the fifth day. Having had a long walk. I came in quite hungry and, walking into the hotel where We lived. I ordered a substantial lunch of English chop, baked potato. salad and tea. I managed to consume the chop and the tea. That was all that I wanted and at dinner I was quite ready to devote myself to an apple and the usual number of crackers
 At the end of the first month of the treatment I had lost twenty-fiv pounds and reduced my waist measure three inches and felt like another per son, being able to squeeze myself into my last winters clothes Following the advice of my friend, I continued this diet for another month before having my clothes made. It was pretty late, but I was rewarded by the ap- proval of my dressmaker and my tailor
 After I had dropped off forty pounds. everybody began to comment on my fine appearance and to say my summer in the mountains had done me lot of good. My complexion had improved marevously and I was as supple as a girl.
 After the first month I began to take one regular meal each day. eat ing just what my appetite called for Now I eat whenever I feel like it and what I want, but I seldom take as many as three meals a day. had no trouble from my flesh becOm- fig flabby. and I used no preventive except a cold cream that I have used for several years
 'I used any variety of apple that happened to strike my fancy and any plain cracker. When I began my dieting the crackers and apples were supplied by the hotel and usually cost as much as my breakfast had formerly, done. After the first week l laid in a supply of apples and usu- ally bought my apples by the peck and my two meals a day averaged less than 15 cents each. I tell this side of the method SO that other wo- men living in New York hotels may be further encouraged to try it by the fact that they will be saving on their restaurant bill.
 My improvement has been so great that my husband. at his physicians suggestion. has been practicing it for six weeks. and he declares he feels like a new man. That is the way felt after my second week: ten years younger and perfectly new and fresh"
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