The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-04
Mllady's
Mirror
How to Get Thin.


Jeanne la Place in recent number or
Womans World, 'that the world is d.
yided into but two classes of people
those that want to get fat and those
that want to get thin. Honest, did you
ever meet a person who seemed per-
fectly satisfied with his weight?
"Of the overfat and overthin women,
perhaps the overfat are the more to be
pitied. AT least they seem TO think
they are. 1t is always possible for the
thin person to pad herself out to appear
plumper. but it is extremely difficult
for the tieshy person to disguise her in
trinity good corset. preference for
dark and quiet colors in dress and
strict avoidance of horizontal stripes
will do much to improve the appear
ance of her figure. but even these are
of little avail if she once crosses the
line between plumpness and freshness.
Like other beauty ills, tendency to
supertuous flesh must be taken in
time. So many women will go on
placidly and steadily gaining in flesh
from month to month and from year to
year until some day they wake up to
the terrible realization that they are
fat Then a frightful wall goes up. and
the victim begins to scramble around
wildly for something to reduce flesh
and to answer 'anti-fat' advertisements
and write pathetic letters to beauty ed
itors.
while it is possible for really fat
person to reduce her weight it can
usually only be done by immense self
denial and excessive and often painful
exertion. whereas very moderate
amount of self denial and exertion be-
gun in time might have kept her from
ever becoming an unsightly mass of
flesh.
"In the vast majority Of cases-in
every case. | believe. in which fat Is
not due TO actual diSease-eXcessive
flesh is caused by too much food and
too little exercise. This may seem
harsh doctrine to the fieshy sister, but
if she wishes to improve her condition
she might as well begin by looking
facts in the face.
Therefore the woman that finds that
she is putting on flesh at an alarming
rate should start out to regulate her
diet. She is almost sure to find that
she is eating more than she needs, TAX
ing into consideration the amount Of
physical labor she performs. Brain
workers need less food than manual!
laborers. and people whose occupations
keep them indoors should not eat as
most Of the time.
so the f1eshy woman will either
have to cut down her diet or take in
creased exercise. or, more likely, be-
cause ii may cost some effort to get
back to Il normal condition she will
have to do both at least for Il time.
The woman that wants to lose flesh
should never eat more than once day
and then should cOnfne herself to lean
meats. fish and poultry. She should
avoid starchy foods and go very lightly
on potato bread and sweets. The
bulk of her diet should consist of fruit
and green vegetables. This may sound
like Lenten fare. but l am talking now
70 the woman who is determined not to
be- fat.
Then. again. the fleshy woman
should not sleep more than seven hours
out of the twenty-four. She should
never lie in bed late in the morning nor
indulge in the rocking chair habit. On
the other hand. she should get all the
physical exercise she can possibly man
age. preferably in the open air. The
best all around general exercise and
one within the reach of all is walking
Most women, whether they be fat or
thin. walk far too little. The woman
who tends to be tleshy should walk for
at least an hour every day and do it
regularly and Systematically. AS she
gets accustomed to the exercise she
should increase the number of miles
she walks day until she is doing five
miles"