The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-15
Muscles AS Aid
In Problems
OfLife
By CAROLINE CRAWFORD


"If you want to have the new boy
ish figure, be pretty able to eat without
consulting what foods make you fat, and
physically fit to cope with subway
mashers-all that and more--develop
your muscles
This is the message that pretty.
very feminine Marta Farra, Italy's
strong woman, brings to the women
of this city. Miss Farra is now APP
pearing at the Hippodrome, exhibit
ing her strength and showing what a
feminine Sandow can do. In fact, San
dow's record was lifting $500 pounds
while Miss Farra claims she can lift
$500 pounds besides lifting elephants,
biting chains, bending iron and just
about holding the earth on her still
dainty shoulders. S
But the point to all this is that Miss
Farra .retains her feminine charm and
weighs but 120 pounds despite her
strength.
And it is this strength which gives
me my slender figure and permits me
to eat four good meals every day."
admitted this unusually pretty Italian
girl--who is 81 years of age and 10
making a visit to this country for the
first time. Her English is good, but
we needed an interpreter to help us
over the more difficult words some
times.
Dieting to keep slender is too
tantalizing.' laughed Miss Farra,
land, besides, every woman will be
tempted to eat just one more bonbon,
one more pastry. and though. she
possesses a will of iron she will never
be able to live on bran biscuits and
skinned milk. From a small child ]
have exercised and have always eaten
what pleased. Italians love to
eat--they usually grow fat too--but 1
am going to keep up my daily exer-
else and retain that 120-pound
standard!
IF a woman will exercise-and by
that l mean walk, go to a gym
nasium every day for a half hour and
take a cold bath (this is vitality i'm
portant). she will not have to worry
about her diet. I eat four times a
day. l eat the most fattening foods
in the world. I love spaghetti, white
bread, cream, milk. butter and every
thing sweet. However, / never touch
vegetables. They are waste. They
produce fat. while milk, meats and
eggs produce muscle and immediate
strength"
In regard to we'll developed muscles
and the advice of Mary e. Hamilton,
director of policewomen, who has adj
vised business girls to study jiu-jitsu
in order to defend themselves from sub
way Washers, Miss Farra said "I
heartily approve of Mrs. Hamilton's ad-
vice to young women, have found that
my strength has mot only helped me
to earn a living but been a very ex-
cellent protection. Stage door john
MES in Europe and not always desirable
creatures, and once when in Buda-
pest one became particularly Of
fensive. I merely used my well de-
veloped arm upon him and passed on.
"Of course, do not expect the
average business girl of this city to
develop her muscles so that she can
lift elephants or bite the chain and
lock from her typewriter desk"
laughed Miss Farra. ''but do advise
her to keep her muscles from becom.
ing flabby, and toward that frankly
40 stage with a double chin. Arms,
legs and throat muscles are the ones
which require I most exercise. If o
young girl will carry ten heavy books
up three flights of stairs twice q day
she will find within a weeks time
that her leg and arm muscles ere be,
coming firm and hard. If she holds
her chin back while doing this she
will find the nightly chin-strap story
of the past.