Evening star., 1936-07-18
By NJ. G.. r.


Sylvia of Hollywood issues some very
snappy commands for dieters who
want to make their vacation re-
ducing time.
She says, "If you're reducing, and
want results my way, remember this:
A resolution in one hand and high
ball in the other will never do the
trick. Liquor is out"
And then she gives Spartan menu,
on which, she says, you can take
off those extra pounds and keep
healthy and civil at the same time. ="
To the present reviewer, part of her
claim would seem to be optimistic.
The pounds would certainly come of
though. Nobody could doubt that.
As to exercising, Sylvia says, Let
the boy friend do the hand stands,
back fiips out outswim Johnny Weis-
muller. You stick to the more cor
rective exercises, otherwise you'll
come back to town a female Schmel-
ing" Swimming, tennis and golf,
says Nine. Sylvia, must be taken
moderately So must bicycling. But
floating is grand and dancing is the
finest thing you can do to keep your
body supple and graceful That
ought to please everybody.
In the Saturday Evening Post 'ur-
rent issue. there is attention to the
dieters' problem in an article by
Logan Clendenning. He calls it
Reducing for Epicures," but ae,o.-s
more space to the diet of the famous
Banting than that of the ancient
philosopher "Banting" has become
an English slang word for reducing;
most of us know that, but not SO
many of us know the actual story OF
Mr.. Banting, the undertaken who
became so stout that he had to go
downstairs backward and finally went
deaf-or of the diet composed prin-
cipally of meat which was pre-
scribed for him. Mr.. Clendenning
tells his ominous story.
He then gets down to modern cases
with an outline of the currently ac-
cepted theories of obesity and nutri-
ton, and gives sample menu for
reducers. To be even more helpful,
he gives recipes for number of the
! reducing dishes. There will be no
excuse, it seems, for those OF the
reading public who end the Summer
overweight.
However, the magazine treatment
Of Summer food problems does not
end with these two periodicals.
Golfers also has a piece on vacation
eating, Meals A La Carte" by Ruth
Carson. 1t tells how to do your own
cooking while on the trail-whether
in auto trailers, small boats or camps.
You can cook your own, says this
author, and live just as well as if you
paid restaurant prices. Her piece
contains experiences from numbers
of women who have done it.
GEORGE CREEL, Golfers Wash
ington correspondent, contributes
a piece to his paper this week in
which he views with concern the
growing tendency of Congress to
| cancel Federal debts. Most of our
legislators, says Mr. Creel, are in
dignant with the European countries
which have defaulted their obliga-
tions to US. When, however. it is
one of our own States, countries or
cities that asks cancellation he
remarks, Congress smiles indulgently
and goes the limit in sympathetic
cooperation"
the Reconstruction Finance Corp. has
virtually lost $3.50, 100000 with Sl6,-
800, 600 in accrued interest through
such Cooperation" Notwithstanding
that when the money was loaned the
time and method of payment were
plainly stated. He quotes other like
cases and observes too that the habit
of cancelling seems to be growing on
Congress.
Like vice" he parapllrases. can
collation. is a monster OF so frightful
mien, as to be hated needs but to be
seen; yet seen too oft and with
these dark words leaves the reader to
imagine for himself the coming state
Of the exchequer.
THE weeks issue of Time gives con-
siderable space to a dramatic ac-
count of Emperor Halle Selassie's re-
cent appearance before the League.
OF his speech it says:
always the embodiment Of bird
like grace and dignity, Ethiopia's En-
peror read his speech in Amharic, a
dignified language in which the sylla-
bles telescope into each other so closely
that for minutes at a time his majesty
seemed to be uttering one enormous
word. :. Everyone agreed that it was
great speech-one of the noblest,
most factual, irrefutable and moving
ever made before the League of Ma
tions.
In reply ID. . thousands and tens of
thousands Of weasel words were pro-
nounced by orators of over so nations" !"
The sympathies of the writer would
seem to be evident. But however. the
reader may feel, he will find this q
first-rate bit Of reporting.
A LDOUS HUxLEY'S new novel,
"Eyeless in Gaza," was reviewed
in this page last week. With duty
done Git was a pleasant duty, there
fore, the reviewer can enjoy observ-
ing her contemporaries struggling with
the shock engendered by the change
which has befallen the leading ex-
ponent of intelligent negation.
It is, however, a sympathetic en-
joyment. Reviewers everywhere seem
to be pinching themselves. 1t is as if
they inquired, "Is this really Aldous
Huxley? Isn't it perhaps Swami
Whatsis married to Bernarr Mac
Fadden?" The state of mind Is easy
to comprehend. Nothing so amazing
as Huxley's Solution For 1t All has
been encountered in writing for long,
long time And yet nothing so per-
fectly inevitable.
William Troy, writing IN the New
Republic under the engaging title of