The sun., 1916-01-02

HREE weeks at hard labor
this is a sentence seif-imposed,
= the sentence endured by fash
ionable women in their frantic
search for a vanishing waist line
the sentence of the banker and broker
who find too close application to bust
ness breaking down their nerves and
TOO ardent a leaning toward the flesh
pots. bringing alarming avoirdupois
A three weeks sentence with atten-
dant starvation and the reward IN
sve!teness--that fashionable slender
ness that will never never be quite
out of style. The slender boyish con
tours of the hipless Venus have en-
tlrely supplanted the generous curves
and gracious roundness of the Venus
de Milo. according to the beauty wor-
shippers Of the present day. Socially
ambitious women not possessed of this
senderness will go to almost an!
length to attain IT. And what OF the
vanity of man? Is it any less? Well
that is another story.
At the Greenbrier. at White Sui
phur Springs. W. Va. that charming
resort nestled in the hollow OF the
Allegheny hills, which is coming to be
known as the American Carlsbad
three weeks is the accepted length OF
the average cure, although many there
are who respond 10 its allure by ac-
cepting double sentence. The prin-
t.pal sins for which the willing pris-
oners here suffer are not sins OF omis-
sion, but those Of too great self-in-
diligence during the demands of n gay
winter season, too great a devotion 10
the flesh pots. 10 exotic food and vim
tage wines and the qualification OF the
fVe senses.
For all this one has to pay in the
end and the accepted fashion Is To
immulate oneself in resort where
social life, food, pleasures OF every
sort are merely incidental compared
TO The AL important business OF get
ting thin
Some women are born thin. others
and the maJority-keep thln oni!
through superhuman effort. The rules
laid down by the aspirant TO the slen'
der figure are as rigid as those I'M
posed upon members OF a football team
or a West Point cadet. And they
must be as rigidly Obeyed. She mus
not take maps, she must not sleep more
than eight hours night. She mus
eschew absolutely wheat bread
potatoes, alcohol in all its seductav
forms. sweets of all sorts. She mus
not drink at meals, she must r4duc
her diet to starvation proportionsb anc
above all. she must take all the ex
ercise she can possibly standf-an
then some more. In short. in THUS ser
tencing herself to hard labor, sh4 mus
work like a day laborer and the1 prie
OF her slendcrness Is eternal vistlanc
The semi-annual cure at a Ashioi
able resort has come to be as much
part OF the refine OF the wqman
society as the opera or the 81 eaSoh
'1wn. Balm to those regreDtins u
European spas, closed to thenG for ION
's tho discovery that at the ereennri
an the varied advantages ~ the d'
f'rcnt European kurs may be han' u
mat within nights r de OF Nv
York. She steps into her tomparTme
a. the Pennsylvania ut tion only
emerge at the sight the WI
Georgian palace rising mid the wv
o. West Virginia, In le bath nov
allaccnt She finds all he luxury
''hcienCy of the com hned KUN
Carlsbad and Marien Sad, Saisomt
plnro, AK les Bains, kyian les ha'
|irhy, Nauheim, Hon burR, WiespaA
and Baden Baden and all the otht
|'i So II Is that she cheerfuiiy =
nee, herself TO the customary w
In. i,ls.