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In fact, he said, his experience has
been that Pumping up an underweigft
pupil is an easier, quicker and surer job
than reducing one who is too heavy.
1t is true that fat men are bound to
have good appetite and practically perfect
powers of digestion and assimilation,
whereas meagerness generally traces
back to some functional failure or short
coming. Consequently, when that diff
Guilty is discovered and corrected, the
tendency to put on flesh becomes very
pronounced and persistent"
On the whole, he said, results are OBJ
tanned more quickly with women than
with men.
Women have their pride involved" he
declared. 'That makes them more in
clined to work, and to overwork, than
the men are, who are only taking care of
themselves because they feel they have
svto, and who frequently have to be re-
minded or even driven little to keep
them up to the mark. On the whole
though, a tendency to overwork is what
we have to guard against with both sexes.
The majority of the pupils have come
to the ticklish physical years of forty and
beyond, and while moderate exercise
taken methodically works wonders for
their health any OVERRIDING might result
in irreparable harm"
In this connection Mr.. Auer laughingly
cited the name of one New York octogen-
arian, world famous in the field Of
finance, who has been expelled, or has ex-
De1led himself from the health studio as
an incorrigible.
"He kept insisting" he explained, ION
having more mat work for his legs. Those
members of his are very heavy and it
would be very easy for him to strain his
heart or bring on apoplexy by lifting
and swinging them around the way he
wanted to. He tried to boss me as he
bosses his financial associates, but 1 told
him he simply couldn't exercise here with
stretcher bearers waiting to carry him
out So he said he wouldn't exercise here
at all, and we parted good friends"
The card catalogue of the Auer estab-
lishment reads like a combined edition
of the Social Register and the Directory
OF Directors. Many of these people have
been steady patrons all the fourteen years
since Mr. Auer came to New York from
Minneapolis, sending in one check FOR
$1,000 after another as fast as the
tuition has expired. There are no gym
nasium classes" Each case is considered
by itself, and individual work is assigned
Sin every instance.
Curiously, many Of these steady pupils
are physicians, who, might be supposed
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it was subject to be sedulously avoided
4 in her presence and referred to sympa-
thetically behind her back by those VINO
loved and otherwise admired her.
Now an attitude of this kind couldn't
possibly make for beauty, either for the
individual or the race. If there IS one
thing above all else that is necessary Tor
the development of beauty 1t IS the
proper encouragement and appreciation
of beauty and of the factors that con-
tribute to it Like art, music. poetry,
feminine beauty must have friendly soil
in which to grow, and if we could but
slough off all sentimentality and make
due allowance for the skill Of the artists
who retouched those old daguerrotypes
we would find that what passed for
beauty among Americans of that day was
quite as negligible and vapid as our early
attempts at art and poetry and the
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Included Is the. Once Sadly Neglected
Pugnosed Girl.

lgood and plenty and allows the cake of
scan to float about extravagantly with US
in the tub Cold waters all very well, OF
course. We use that, too, but it's the hot
water and the soap that really count
when it comes to the American girls
complexion.
Then there's the dentist andlthe tooth
brush. One of the most distinguishing
features of the newly evolving type OF
American beauty is her splendid ana
beautiful teeth Although history slides
over the fact very mercifully, it neVerthe-
less is a pretty well established fact that
most of the great beauties of the past
were like gift horses. They were not to
be- looked in the mouth. Even the beau
tiful Empress Josephine never dared
smile except behind the barage OF her ian
or a carefully adjusted handkerchief. IN
deed, in France and the other Latin coun-
tries of to-day, in all European countries
for that matter, the care of the teeth is
not yet widely understood or practlced
except among the upper classes. But as
for enjoying the benefits of good modern
dentistry, such as is within easy reach OF
every American shop girl or factory oper-
alive, this is boon denied to even the
upper classes of Europe unless they hap
pen to be people of ample means.
Quite as important, not to say unique,
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from 141 pounds to 176, and Carmen Gar
cia Carnejo, Spanish opera singer, gained
80 pounds.
Just to show that it is possible to work
in either direction equally we'll Mr., Auer
cited the case of husband who weighed
100 and wife who weighed 245, and who
have now been balanced up" till they
weigh 10 and 1856 pounds respectively.
Then" he went on, there were two
sisters. One, a married woman, weighed
2O5, and the other, single, weighed only
1O4. They were brought to weigh 155 and
100, difference of 25 pounds instead OF
101 Don't get the impression, though,
that all do is to reduce or otherwise
change weight. That's only part Of the
job My main woEk is health, which IS
why named this health studio instead
of a gymnasium, and call the work here
lessons instead Of treatments"
Mr. Auer admitted, though, that for
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adjoining house. A battery is placed in
the circuit, also an induction coil with
interrupter, and current then flows from
one house to the other through the wire
and from the second house back to the
first through the pipe. This circuit is
rapidly closed and opened by the action
of the interrupter, and consequently the
current through the water pipe is inter
mittent.
The explorer now puts on a head tele-
phone which is connected to the de-
tector carried in a box close to the ground
by strap loop. When the detector box
in being carried about is brought over
the pipe sought a buzzing caused by the
inductive effect Of the interrupted cur
rent flowing in the pipe is heard in the
head telephone.
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They Could:Exercise
at lone, but Won t


stretching and lunging which constitute
the active portion of lesson" IN TINS
novel studio" After it, an electric cabl-
net bakes the pupil into sem1-llquld
state, whereupon he is sluiced off under
a shower, thoroughly massaged, and sent
out into the business world again new
and better man.
That is all there is to, what is adj
mittedly the most expensive gymnasium
anywhere in captivity as we'll as one OF
the most exclusive and novel. Except for
the medicine ball there is not piece OF
gymnastic or athletic apparatus or equip
ment in the place. Practically all the
exercise is taken by the unassisted human
body. and the amount prescribed is ex-
ceedingly moderate.
Yet by these simple methods, according
to JAG Auer himself the smiling and mag
netic creator and owner OF the place.
physical changes can be and have been
wrought which border on the marvellous.
He promptly set aside, however, any
claim to being a worker of miracles.
81 have no secrets" he declared. "The
human body is good deal like putty.
You can mold it as you will. Providing
no organic impediments exist men and
women can weigh about what they wish
TO-"
In proof of this assertion he cited sew
eral cases from his records. There was
former Mayor Edwin W. F'iske of Mount
Copyright. 1928. by The New York Herald.
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A Straight Front
and Narrow Hips.

Another of the markedly individual
characteristics of the American type is
the figure. The American woman's figure
is of this land and Of no other. Even
where she confesses to considerable
strain of Italian or Spanish or Slav
blood the American girl, even but two
generations removed from Europe, shows
wide departure from the broad hfpped
maternal type of her foremothers; and.
that even in cases where there has been
as yet no admixture of the long limbed,
angular Saxon or Irish or Scandinavian
races So, too, and by the same mys-
terious process of stimulation have the
daughters of the thick and stocky Ger
man and Slav immigrants of the sos
and '9Os developed into type radically
different from their mothers.
But it is by that most important fea-
ture Of the human countenance, the nose,
that the American beauty promises to
outclass all earlier and preceding types
of feminine loneliness. If there be any
one with lingering doubt about this
Just let him ask any of our famous por-
trait painters or illustrators of magazine
covers which face he would rather paint
the face of a woman endowed with the
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Old Home Mental
Setting for Fiction
Reader Changes Modest Cot
tage Into Gorgeous Palace to
Suit Background of Story.

When you read a story what sort of
setting do you place the characters and
action in? Is yours an imagination
naturally so superior, or so richly de-
veloped by training or travel, that you
can fancy a really adequate and appro-
pirate setting each time; or do you
have a few standard backgrounds, which
you modify or magnify, as the case may
be, to suit the material circumstances
of the people you are reading about?
A woman we know says that If the
story is one of home life she nearly al
ways places her characters All the house
where she was born and spent her early
life-and that she can, il necessary,
glorify it to palatial proportions,
although It was by no means a
the country home of English gentil-
ity = can be the aristocratlc residence
Of old Bostonians; it's modest little
parlor can expand and convert itself
into a private ballroom, without losing
its essential design.
Conservatories--the kind in which, in
the gcod old Victorian fiction, the hero
sat and famed the heroine or from
which he went forth ana CALAMITY
fetched her an ice"-can add them
selves at will to the dining room or
study. Lords and ladies may walk in
state through it's imposing halls.
The original of this elastic house of
the wCman's dreams was just a plain
frame dwelling in a middle-s.zed western
town. and it was destroyed by fire long
ago. so that she has never been able to
go back and look it over and realize to
the full the preposterousness of making
it the background for the variegated
folks of fiction. But it had certain
architectural Qualities which work we'll
into a picture--even mental one; a
central hall with ascending stairway, on
one side the little parlor, and on the
other the study, with a long dining room
to the rear.
when I look at twelve-story apart
ment houses and think of the myriads OF
children receiving their first impressions
of home in these surrounding" says this
woman, II often wonder what sort of
mental pictures of other peoples dwell
ings they must conjure up. Perhaps keen
contact with city life develops such rich
and vivid imaginations, and frequent at
tendance at the movies provides so great
a variety of vicarious experience, that
the city bred child reader of to-day
doesn't have to construct an imaginary
Colonial veranda out Of the fire escape
or. convert the dumb waiter into the well
for the old oaken bucket.
Fortunately, perhaps, few OF the chill.
dren of to-day will read the Victorian
fiction of their parents and grand
parents. The fiction OF the future. If not
written expressly for apartment house
jewellers. will be all about motor cars
and flying machines, and movies and
traffic cops-and there is no danger OF
the New York child's imagination being
unprepared for such Impressions as
these
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some time past the principal demand Of
his women clients has been for weight
reduction.
"New York" he explained, sis city OF
fads, and for three years or so now slim
ness has been the fad for women's fig
ures I firmly believe that if some Paris
fashion creator had the courage to de-
clare that big hips and bust are the
PROPER thing they would come back. And
I haven't doubt that i1 such a case the
women who are now working here TO
keep themselves slim and curveless
would at once demand that we plump
them out in the proper geographical
zones And we could do it, for it's just as
easy to put weight on as to take it off
after you have learned the way"
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Locating Water Pipes

TN connecting underground water
pipes to supply a house or place of
business it is necessary, of course,
to locate the street main, and unless
maps are at hand this means that the
pipes must be located by the expensive
method of digging.
The water department of one munich
pality avoids this expense by using a
water pipe detector invented by an en-
ployee.
A copper wire 500 feet long carried on
a reel is attached to faucet or the
plumbing in house receiving water
from the lost pipe. The other end Of
the wire is connect>d to faucet in an
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to be thoroughly familiar with the
hygienic measures necessary to keep them
healthy.
"And, of course" Mr.. Auer commented,
"they do know. But like other human
beings, they are too lazy and self-ipdulg-
ent to take enough exercise. So they
wish the responsibility off on me and are
glad to pay me for accepting it. Prac-
tically the. same thing is true Of the
others who come here. In fact, you might
say that the studio, as a business enter
prise, subsists on the tribute which lazi-
ness has to pay to the memorable laws of
health. Not thing, practically, is done
here to the pupils which they couldn't DO
for themselves at home. But they won't
do it at home"
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By DOROTHY RICHARDSON.

/IYTy he American beauty will be the
first in history to have pug.
nose" recently declared one Of
our eminent connoisseurs and puryeyors
Of feminine pulchritude. Hitherto the
accepted standards Of beauty have de-
manded a long, straight nose, he con-
tinued, "Out the American girl has
proved that woman can be really beauti-
full with nose that is anything but aqui-.
line. She has proved that she can be
beautiful with nose that tip-tilts to an
angle Of forty-ffve degrees or that is
frankly pug"
And the consensus Of opinion, based on
observation in Broadway, Fifth avenue or
Main street-anywhere, in fact--wili be
that the man who said those kind words
about pug noses said a whole mouthful, so
to speak. For the fact of the matter is
that the world has been too long cozened
with the buncombe about the classic type
Of face We have been too much fed up
on the ideals of the Greek sculptors with
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-25
By ROWLAND THOMAS.

BV ROW LAND IHOHA<AO"
.tT IE down flat on your back'
directs the physical instructor.
'Lock your hands behind your
head. Now pull your feet way up IN front
of you, and when toss the medicine
ball kick it back at me. Kick it hard
as you like. Try to knock me over with
tiff you cam
The challenge strikes fire. Determine
tion glints in the recumbent targets eye.
His sweating jaw sets and his soles meet
the flying lump of leather with vicious
thud. 1t flies back hard and true to the
mark, but the instructor merely grins as
he catches it deity.
One has not experienced to the full the
Joyous possibilities of New York unless
one has been admitted to the inner sane
tum on the mems side of the Auer Health
Studio in the Hotel Biltmore and seen
a typical millionaire engaged in that
performance And the joyousness of the
sight is not lessened by the knowledge
that the typical millionaire has paid JAG
Auer anywhere from $3.50 to $1,000 for
the privilege of thus being made
monkey of for his own benefit.
The high trajectory artillery work with
thes medicine ball is one of dozen or
,mcre stunts of twisting and bending and
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Types of Prettiness Now Often, Seen.

drama. Indeed, were it possible to take
any ten famous American beauties of any
decade up to and including the period of
the civil war; were it possible to COM
pare them in the flesh side by side with
ten of the most beautiful girls in any New
York department store, or side by side
with ten of the most beautiful girls in
any of a thousand American cities--were
such comparison possible there is
scarcely a doubt to whom the palm wound
60
Such beauty contest would show the
American girl of to-day winner on
every point Indeed one is pretty safe in
opining that it would show as much i'm
provement in the type of feminine beauty
evolved as, for instance, the poetry Of
Edna St Vincent Mil1ay or Harry Kemp
is superior to that of the once popular
and polite bard, the late N. P. Willis. 1t
would show that much of what passed
for beauty III our grandmothers days
was not really beauty at all, but rather
an infantine prettiness.
The Towering of the American beauty
out of the melting pot is not different.
however, from the genesis of the English,
Spanish, Italian, Slav or any other type
of beauty. They too are products out
of crucible in which in some far off
past many nationalities and alien races
have been fused. And So too, they in
turn, are now being fused, those same
races plus innumerable others. They
are being fused in the largest melting pot
the world has ever known, and the re-
t4r1a 70
mix the metaphor. is being transplanted
into soil and surrounded with condi-
tlons peculiarly advantageous to the
propagation of feminine beauty. Take
freedom, for instance. A most important
factor. Freedom to do just as thew
please; to indulge in any exercise or
amusement that suits their fancy; to
walk, ride, dance, row, play tennis or
baseball, unhampered by any of the con-
ventionalities which still ciroumscrlbe
women of other nations, however liberal
their respective social and moral laws
Nowhere else on earth do women enjoy
such freedom as here in America.
Then there's education. And our count
less millions of bathtubs.
But, somebody says, what's education
got to do with beauty?
Well, the experts on eugenics say that
education has got great deal to do with
the beauty of the race, and what is true
Of the race must be true of the individ-
ual. Our public school system leaves
much to be desired, of course, but the
girls who manage to muddle through
grammar school may not emerge exactly
highbrows, but at least they are on the
way to intelligence of sort. And lit
tie rudimentary intelligence never yet
failed to enhance even the fairest face.
AS to the value of the bath tub there
can be no dissenting voice. 1t is perhaps
the first aid to beauty as it is to the good
health upon which the American beauty
of the present and the future is based.
And not only do we have more bath tubs
than any other nation, but what is more
important we use them. Without throw
ing any bouquets at ourselves, we may
quite justifiably claim to be the only ma
kaon that turns on the hot water fau0sS
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Enough's Enough,
Even in Heritage
1t Was Close Call, but Suf-
fcient to Add Car to Their
InStaLlment Plans,

Whats this A new carl" exclaimed
the Man Next Door, with Holnesesque
deduction, as Jones brought the gleam-
ing automobile to an abrupt stop only
twenty feet short of whire he had in
tended to draw up.
Must have inherited money" the
Man Next Door continued, with another
of his keen chances into the workings
of things as they arc.
"Some," Jones answered. Not much
but enough; oh, yes, enoughw
But that wasn't the half of 1t; less
than the eighth, if we are to be accurate.
A short hour before his return in
glory, Jones had left his home to claim
the gilded monster as his own. And a
short half hour before that he was not
at all certain that he would he able to
enter the claim.
For the Joneses-Mister and Missus
were young, and usually joyous, and
always poor.
Only a month back the furniture in
stallment man had made his final call
= for that trifling matter Of the periodical
payment on the period suite Ana
when he had gone, it was only natural
that they should assume some new
financial burden.
From the kindly souls who sell things
for a small down payment" and con-
llIluGu IGIllLldICSS NAiSJ A'e'N SNN9AAN
monograph a player piano, vacuum
cleaner-and now, at last, an automo-
bile, which purchase involved an initial
contribution to the agent of exactly
$384.06, due that noon.
And morning found them, after all
possible sources of revenue had yielded
their utmost, with just 1881.
Lets go over it again." Mr.. Jones
was suggesting one hour and forty-fve
minutes before.
Here's the postal saving certificates
for $780," he went on. Here's my Ire
insurance dividend check, SPILL. And
my salary, $85. And how much cash
have you, Mary"'
Mary counted it again. Usually she
varied anywhere from 10 cents to
$40 in her accounting OF household
sums, but now for the, sixth time sne
hit the same amount. There was no
questioning it's correctness.
eighteen dollars and eighty-nine
cents" she said.
Her husband noted the figures on a
clean sheet of paper and totalled them
Something Turning Up.
.,Tbree hundred and eighty-one dol
lars exactly" he announced. Just
So shy. No, $3.06, and there's still my
carfare downtown to be considered
Never nina, DEAR, MS VINE Coun-
selIed in wifely fashion, something
will surely turn up
Maybe" she added hopefully as the
telephone bell rang, maybe that's 1t
now"
Followed a short conversation with
the operator of the DE Luxe Elegancia
Apartments, and then an announce
menti
tits q. registered letter FOR you. She's
sending it up right away"
The letter was short.
owe are enclosing" wrote Blinks Il
Blanks, the attorneys, "checl1 for $3.50,
which represents payment in full or
your share (one-twenty-ninth) Of the
estate of the late Miss Alvina Perkins,
your aunt No receipt is necessary"
That's how Jones came into his in
heritance and his automobile. A small
heritage. but enough. oh, yes, enough
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in their way, as her nose with its ten
dency to turn up, are the American
beautys dark hair and her peculiarly
attractive eyes We say "dark hair
advisedly, because it is matteE of sta
tistics that the type of beauty evolved out
of the American melting pot is dark
haired. This is in accordance with the
clinical law that where there is an adj
mixture of the blonde with the brunette
races it is the brunette characteristics
that survive The result of this law is
that each successive generation of Amer
leans shows fewer blue eyed and golden
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Vernon, who took twenty-five inches of
his waist measurement and eighty-one
pounds off his weight by following the
Auer instructions, and Thomas F. Nc
NuJty of New York city who went dow7
1922 pounds, from 2S61a to .1S4, in less
than. six months.
On the other hand, an underweight
pupil, F. P. Warfield, climbed steadily
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Changing the Subject.

yes" she murmured, I've often been
abroad England I like real well, and
I'VE been to France, Italy, Norway. Ice
land"
Have you ever been to Lapland?"
asked the young man, and the trend OF
the conversation changed abruptly.
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New Types Of Beauty and Their Sources

haired girls and boys. and thus the dark
type is likely to increase in geometrical
progression until in-time the blue eyed
and golden haired American beauty will
be as rare in this country as she is now
rare in Italy and Spain.