The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-01-25
Milady's
Mirror


How to Get Thin.
81 have often thought" says Nine.
Jeanne la Place In recent number OF
Woman's World, that the world Is d.
vided 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 1t is extremely difficult
for the ieshy person to disguise her in
trinity. A good corset a preference for
dark and quiet colors In dress and q
strict avoidance of horizontal stripes
will do much to improve the appear
ance of her figure, but even these are
ofeaittle avail IL she once crosses the
line between plumpness and tieshiness
Like other beauty ills, tendency to
superfuous 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 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 1t Is possible for really fat
person to reduce her weight. 1t Gun
usually only be done by immense self
denial and excessive and often painful
exertion, whereas a very moderate
amount Of self denial and exertion be-
gun in time might have kept her from
ever becoming an unsiEhtly mass Of
flesh
I'm 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
II 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 ut 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
much as people who are in the open air
most of the time.
$50 the feshy woman will either
have to cut down her diet or take In
creased exercise, or. more likely, be-
cause 1t may cost some effort to get
back to normal condition she will
have to do both at least for time.
"The woman that wants to lose flesh
should never eat more than once day
meats. fish and poultry She should
avoid starchy foods and 60 very lightly
on potatoes, bread and sweets. The
bulk Of her diet should consist Of fruit
and green vegetables. This may sound
like Lenten fare. But am talking now
to the woman who Is determined not to
be fat.
Then, again, the feshy 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 OF
thin. walk far too little. The woman
who tends to be tieshy 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 1--we
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