Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-07

having reduced to q certain weight q
woman must continue the strict diet to
keep there. This seems to depend on oer-
sonal peculiarities. I have just recel red
a most gratifying letter from a former
pupil who under my directions four years
ago reduced about twenty pounds. She
sends me a photograph of herself which
shows that she had not gained any flesh
since leaving my hands and writes of her
experience in keeping to her present
weight.
This pupil was a woman we'll past fifty
and she had been gradually accumulat-
ing excess flesh for the past twelve or
fifteen years ever since she gave up the
bicycle and horseback riding. She was
woman with good appetite and good d.
gestion and, as the saying is she lived
we'll" At the moment she began work.
ing under my directions she was not in q
position to take much exercise, 80 to re-
duce we depended almost entirely on
diet
She cut out sweets. starch and fat. She
confined herself almost entirely to Erilled
meat, green vegetables and salad without
butter or oil and toasted bread with some
fruit. The reduction was gradual, for
the flesh was of the solid variety and not
the result of any very bad habits, but It
amounted to two and half to three
pounds a week.
After she got her figure to the normal
point she found by experimenting that she
could relax her diet sufficiently to eat
any ordinary meal served. She now
writes that she weighs herself every ten
days and IL she finds that she has gained
even pound, she goes back to her diet
giving up the little sweet or the lIttls
fat she allowed herself
All women are not so fortunate and in
many instances any indulgences beyond
those prescribed in the diet mean in
creased flesh. think, however, the Inn
portant point In the case we are discuss
ing was that my friend had lost the habit
of eating hearty meals; the enforced diet
had reduced her natural appetite, and she
was therefore less inclined to put on
flesh.
Another pupil writes me that she has re-
duced from $50 to 154 pounds and is nearly
the proper weight for her height and
age. She has not only dieted but walked
five miles daily and exercised in her room
morning and night, but she writes that
the sacrifice is well worth It.
THE sense OF freedom and lghtness
that have" she writes, els worth any
sacrifice. Under no circumstances shall
/ allow myself again to be burdened with
flesh"
To WhIten the Neck.
The fashion of wearing the neck en-.
posed makes the condition of the skin
most important and have numerous re-
quests for some method OF getting rid OF
the dark spots that so often come be-
hind and just below the ears. There are
good many bleaching creams and lo-
tions on the market more or less effeo-
tive. The strongest bleach that can be
safely used. however. is FIVE per cent
solution of oxygen water. Put this on
the neck three times week at night
after the skin has been thorough washed
with warm water and let 1t dry on the
skin. In the morning rub a good face
cream into the skin and on the nights
that you do not use the oxygen water
leave a coating OF cream on over night.
This will prevent any undue drying effect.
do not. however. recommend this treat
ment for the face unless the skin IL very
thick and oily.
Strong oxygen water will also bleach
hair pure white, but It may have a bad
affect on the health of the hair, and It
should also be remembered that the
bleach will not affect the new hair grow
ing out which will appear the natural
color.