New-York tribune., 1912-01-13
TELLS BEAUTY SECRETS
Annette KeIIermann Explains
How to Make Fat Women Thin.
TO MAKE THIN WOMEN FAT
To Straighten Crooked Limbs
Exercise and Diet Will Do
All, She Saws.

II isn't necessary for any woman 10 be
fat. and It isn't necessary for any woman
to he thin.
Annette Kcllermann told an audience Of
women so at the Winter Garden YESTERDAY
and when they saw Miss Kellermann doing
flesh reducing flesh producing stunts on
the stage, clad In a tight ittng bifurcated
black silk garment reaching from her neck
10 her ankles there wasn't woman there
who wasn't hypnotized into believing that
she was going right TO work to get q figure
like Miss kellermann'S.
Miss Kcllcrmann said they could, but she
knew they wouldn't. American women, she
intimated ate too much and were too lazy
to exercise.
Yes. you'U 20 hom" and do the things
I'm showing YOU. one night maybe two
nights" she cried as she skipped up and
down In - stationary running exercise war
rauted To round out tho calves and pare
down the thighs and make the most obsti-
nate stomach invisible.
Three nights'n be the limit. | know.
The way you American women don't cXnr-
ciso "a drcadful-dresdful oh, Yes, you
appreciate this" she told them. as a burst
Of applause rang out when she balanced
/ herself on the toes OF one foot. with the
other stuck out straiGh, behind her and
hcr hands stuck out in front
You're very nice to applaud. but wish
you'd 20 home and do tho exercises.
Now. mind" and Miss kellermann came
cxpertly to a standing posture. II don't say
exercising will make YOU beautiful. IL
won't give you perfect features and abun-
/ dant blond hair Look at me-siX hairs
and q snuh nose" hut I'm perfectly. abso-
| lutely healthy, and exercising does il. Why.
! do YOU know that as child ! was 80 how
| legged that | had 10 wear iron braces that
reached from my ankles Ia my thighs"
/ Think Of that, now murmured tho
women. gazing at Miss Kellermanns al
mraby straight and well formed mem
| bcrs
Cards IN write questions on were passed
! around among the women. and when ready
were handed UP to Miss kclermann by
what ono 81 tho thirstors after a good ng
urc called the "usheresses.
/ The 'usheresses" had a busy time. foI
every on. was bursting with questions
/ Miss Kcllcrmann read them aloud, an'
| then gave answers. illustrated with eN
crciscs.
How" said tho first one-it came from
"a pondorous woman In a rear row-"ho"
can set from two hundred and nfty
rounds down to enc hundred and fifty ir
six months?'
! IT viii be pretty stir work. but ii car
De- done" said Mis- k"llermann. Fat D.
caused b. orer!n'u'gcrCc. woman VII
cat breakfast and a bite in III" middle o
the forenoon. and luncheon and afternoo'
! tea and dinner and a bite before she goes
to hed-slX meals. when two are enough
Tor anybody-and then she wonders WI,
she's tat TEc more YOU eat the NOR
YOU want to eat. and then you get bilious
and then you get pimples-and .Ou Get fat
cut out the 'stecn meals. When yo.
get up I'm the morning take glass of ho
water Then. with several sweaters "H
exercise hard FOR ten minutes. then taE,
IL t.p,d salt bath. II YOU get hungry, ca
an apple. but no meals except q light
luncheon and dinner. II you've rh"uma
usm. leave meat alone. haven't touched
Il myself Tor four y"ars-only vegetable.
and fruit and IIttlc hsh and chicken
said Mis- I>'ilcrmann. I'm better on
" thout it
I'd I've on grass 10 get q poifcct neurc
with colycs Ike hers .aiI an audihl'
voice In The rrar: but nobody smiled. The
women were In too deadly earnest 70.
that. Questions came ur thick and fast
What ls good for red nos":' DO
you wear oor."ts?' How can | reduce
ny lurE" stomach Please show "u
exercise for bony calves"
The thing to do, said Miss Kcll"rmanu,
as sho lay on h"r back on a piano stool
and did the movements 10 rcduc" large
stomachs and double chins. tho thing -
do Is to keep a. this exercising business.
You can do II. II anybody Offered you