The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-21
Exchange of Services

Il have four room apartment. | give
lessons in plano and In elocution and
find | do not have enough time to do
my own work. l should like to exchange
lessons with some one who would cnie
In and either do the washing for two
people (no sheets. spreads or tablecloths),
or else clean the apartment-sweeping,
busting and scrubbing. MRS. l.. NJ"
An exchange along the lines in which
we delight (and l might add without
vanity excel l mean helping those who
wish to help themselves and are ham,
pered by adverse circumstances. l re-
call with pleasure that man now emil
net in learned profession told me how
he paid his board for two years in col
lege by acting as the presidents horse
boy taking entire charge of that Off
cial's stable. Our girls are not a whit
behind their brothers in independence,
industry and freedom from false pride.
Wants Her Weight Reduced
''Could you help me in any way to re-
duce my fat? / am "a years old and
carry the awful weight of 212 pounds. l
have tried few things without result. L
should like much to know If you can
tell me of anything that will reduce me.
II was so heavy on my feet had to quit
work, where | was making a good sal
ary I don't think l could get another
position, as no one wants fat girl. They
seem to think she doesn't have to work
to live. but l do. l have no one to mako
a living for me. E. NJ
In mot Efan (htrf NJ
matter you submit to me should, strictly
speakding, belong to another department..
have nothing to do with cosmetics, the
cure of the skin, methcds for making
the hair grow. etc. / handle your letter
because so many women, young and mid
die aged, beg me for means of reducing
adipose tfssue-in unprofessonal phrase.
how to take down and off their fat l
speak within bounds in asserting that
hundreds of lives have been lost during
the last century through i'll Judged and
desperate attempts to do just this thing.
1t would be idle to deny the fact that
nobody likes to be "fleshy." As years
gather upon the hoary head, the sensible
woman admits that 1t is more comely to
be plump than skinny" If one does not
gain flesh after so she gains wrinkles. If
you reduce redundant flesh do not be
allured into the purchase and use of ad-
vertised nostrums warranted to bring
down your weight l appeal to medical
members of our staff to uphold me in
the assertion that any drug that reduces
weight induces i'll hralth TO begin with.
diet. I do not mean starve. but consult
the best authorities as to flesh producing
foods. You probably ''dote upon candy"
Cut 1t out of your dietary with firm
hand. Sweets are fattening. So are
starchy foods, fat meats, milk puddings
and hot. breads. These last demand but
ter, which should be partaken of SPAR
ingly Eat fresh fruits and drink little
water. hearty draught at bed time
should suffice. Get a trustworthy sys-
tenn of calisthenic exercises and take
them faithfully night and morning. They
cultivate muscle and dissuade adipose
matter from accommodating. Exercise reg
ularly in the open air. One woman, who
declared pitifully when advised to walk
off her obesity that nobody in town
walked more than she, unless 1t might
be the postman, did not suspect what her
friends shrank from saying to her-that
she had an inordinate appetite for sweets.
pastries, fat meats. and gravies, and in
duIged it freely. Your case may be en-
tirely different. believe, however that
a steady persistence in the plain rules
have indicated will relieve you of the
surplus weight that distresses and dis
figures. 1t is not the work of a day or a
month or year.