Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
SPOILED BY DIETING
Women Going Too Far in the Desire
to Be Thin.
BEAUTY DOESN'T COME THAT WAY
wOrn Faces as Wen as slim Bodies
Produced by semi-Starvation-
Special WRINKLES Due 20
Special Foods.


NEW YORK, Feb. ls.-"This getting thin
business Is spelling pretty women" said a
beauty missionary, and II It is kept up a
season longer America will lose her name
for producing beauties.
Even last season In London there were
fewer American beauties than the season
before and next year It is safe to predict
there will be fewer stlll. Starvation is
killing off the pretty woman.
Dieting with some women means going
without food to the very limit Of existence,
and when a woman does this the effect
shows, not only in her figure, but in her
countenance as we'll she gets thinner, In
deed her figure drops away from plump
ness to s1imness in a very short time, but
her face suffers.
1T is not so much that the skin gets
baggy and that the cheeks sag. for this
condition can be prevented by massage
and by sixth treatment. The danger OF
severe dieting lies in the harm which it
does the spirits. A woman's vivacity sinks
with long fasting and she loses both her
charm and her chic. How can a woman
be vivacious II she has had nothing all day
but a cup Of hot water? And how can she
be chic on buttermilk?
Il had a case of this a few lays ago. A
woman came TO me with bags under her
eyes and a dark shadow across her temples.
Looking over her hastily to observe the
tell tale signs OF too much dieting, / said:
What are you eating madam2''
Nothing" she replied, I am dieting to
reduce my weight"
" Then what are you ~drinking?' I in
quired. l knew the answer before she told
me.
~ am drinking buttermilk,' she said,
and It Is doing me loads of good
Yes / know said /, interrupting her,
I've heard all about buttermilk before
now. But the truth is madam, that you
will have TO stop drinking buttermilk and
go back to the family table. 1t doesn't
agree with YOU
Il put her on the regular family diet for
three days and her improvement was
rapid. z
Few women after a fast will go bach to
regular eating. The spectre of stoutness
looms ever before them. Often, too, they
get out of the habit of eating and the idea
OF a regular meal has become repulsive to
them.
I've lost my charm said a woman
NVhAAAS ANN my sup anu TOWl1 nefSelT
down on a couch. Once upon a time II
was my chief asset. Now 1 am without it
entirely. 1 can tell that I've lost it by the
way people look at me-
What did you have for breakfasts"
asked.
81 had half a cup Of weak coffee with
out sugar taken through a straw so that
l would have to sip it slowly
well. Vnu nanif he cha punsno N boIp
a cup Of coffee taken through a straw.
Go out and get a good luncheon. Eat
meat and potatoes and ice cream and then
take a good walk In the air. Come back
to me late this afternoon and I'll see what
I can do for YOU
When she returned four hours later
there seemed little to be done for her.
Her skin was slightly wrlnkled from her
having gone long on next to nothing to
eat. But 1 pumped 1t with some good
cold cream and she looked better inn
mediately. She is almost her old self now.
i may be mistaken in the matter, but
I've been in the beauty business long
enough to know something about 1t. II I
cant speak with medical authority, / can
at least give the results of my observa-
tions, which so to show that nine out Of
ten Of the ugly women you meet have
been made ugly through too much dieting.
"At the opera che night / counted
twenty women In the boxes who were
once beauties. Now they look like hays;
II in, well figured hays. but none the less
hays. To my certain knowledge they have
brought it all on themselves this winter.
Going without breakfast makes the hair
gray. One of my patients had lovely
brunette hair until last fall. Then she
began to go without breakfast. In the last
six months her hair turned from its deep
lustruous brunette shade to a dusty gray.
I'm working on 1t, but I can't bring 1t
back; neither can l persuade her TO resign
from the no breakfast club.
Living on buttermilk makes bags
under the eyes and it draws gray shadows
across the temples. Ono of my patients
took to living on buttermilk the first day
OF January. She has tasted almost nothing
else since. Her eye sacks are alarming
and the shadows around her temples make
II impossible for her to wear any Of the
fashionable colors.
Living on toast and hot water robs you
Of your expression and gives you stopping
she ulders.
THE worst fate Of all befalls those who
live entirely on fruit, or such is the result
VI my opseiNdtohS' TOT L ave a patient
who got the fruit ard cracker fad. She
ate raw fruit OF all kinds and nibbled
crackers between meals. Her breakfast
was ranges; her luncheon consisted Of
apples and she had figs for dinner. On
Sundays she had figs and ice cream. On
holidays by way of n special treat she
alto peanuts and fish. .
When / took her her skin was spotted
and she had yellow spots on her forehead
and sadness in her heart. l put her on a
diet and she is recovering. but the plmples
so slowly.
Il suppose you wonder what diet I pre-
scribe In such cases. can answer
promptly. 1 prescribe the boarding house
diet.
Take table board for two weeks in a
good boarding house. I say to my patients.
And II they follow my advice they come