Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-03-10
NEW YORK DAY BY DAY.
BY CHARLES HENRY ADAMS.

New York, March 1O.-"oh, that
this too, too solid flesh would melt!"
Never has that wall achieved a
more pathetic intensity than in this
year of 1915. Plump maidens and
portly matrons give one glance at the
spring styles-and one gasp OF appall-
ed anguish. Those skirts. that are
Just one rufne after another, cascad-
ing over forty-inch hips The bunch
gathers that make thick waists
thicker, the short, loose coats that
lend no softening lines to "tubbines!"
The enforced revelation OF stout
ankles, the high collars so unbecoming
to a prettily rounded neck, the small
shallow hats that give no grateful
shadow to fat faces-all the new fea.
lures OF the new fashions are anathe-
ma to the corpulent.
Sometimes think la mode Is regu.
lated by the law OF compensation, for
II always seems to compensate the
women who. without its aid. would
be about as beautiful and enthralllng
as an anaemic straw.
But how is 1t possible for the lady
OF comfortable curves to attain a
sylphlike sllhoutte? According to Mrs.
May Belle Macarthur OF Chicago, a
combination OF moral courage and
celery constitutes sure cure for
obesity.
There is no reason for any healthy
woman to weigh more than 1870 pounds
II she has any moral courage" declar-
ed Mrs. Macarthur. Look at me.
eat nothing for breakfast. eat moth.
ing for luncheon, but sometimes drink
glass OF water. For dinner have
two stalks OF celery. | don't exercise
except to walk. | walk several miles
a day.
This is my twenty.thlrd day Of
fasting. I'm cheerful. I'm happy.
weigh twenty-nine pounds less thar
, when | started. ! haven't any inten
ton OF giving up until I'm down to ~
pounds. aspire to 125 pounds be
! cause stout women can't think so wei
as medium weight ones. They can
: look as beautiful or look as well.
= "All women II in good health cal
!. reduce as have done. Stout womeI
are handicapped a great deal in life
But those who wish and hope to ge
}. thin are more to be scoded thai
e pitled. All they have to do is to ca
s celery and maybe watermelon. drin
!. water and walk. They're bound to re
e duce.
i 1.-THE trouble with women is coward
l. ice. They like the sensation of eatin
= too much. They would rather taste
i chocolate drop than be able to thin
h rapidly or move about gracefully. Ais
e most women are downright lazy. The
Il start TO exercise, keep II up for tw
4 days or week. and then stop. The
G start to diet. keep It up for two meal
o or two days. and then slip"
I. All Of which is interesting II trur
e But it seemed to me that it might b
D. wise to obtain a physicians opinion
the observation-disclosures cure b.
fore implicitly accepting It. Gale
up Dr. Eugenia Hancock, and sh
made a careful study OF the moder
woman and her weaknesses.
"If you want to be thin, don't bantl
she warned. Don't leave of food fC
period OF several days, and don
subject yourself to severe and uncor
Portable dietary schedules - such
the toast-and-orange- Juice menu, Il
example. Don't bake or steam you
self. Don't even made sudden or vi
n lent changes In your methods OF e
ercise, except under the advice of
physician. Above all, don't take I
any method of reduction simply b
r. cause some other woman said it wor
ed we'll with her.
"Such an experiment as that OF Mr.
McArthur's is most dangerous co
tinued the doctor.