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Show the wm pun). The Physical Culture of tho Ladies of- the Metropolis of New 1 York City. A LOlTfl rOEGOTTEN HEEOIHE. Crane's' Hew Partner Mrs. Astor's Diamonds A Paraous Story Writer. ! One of the lames, the daugnter or. the shrewdest and most successful man in the country and an heiress in her own name, has the locker next to mine, and also a very torpid liver. Tho doctor is i particularly interested in this fair athlete, ath-lete, and confident of restoring her beauty and health if directions are carried out. Here is a programme: Walk three miles every day in tho open air; ride one hour in a cab or stage over a rough road ; se sponge baths only until the action of the liver is restored; select a diet of soft orraw eggs, lettuce, celery, rice, spinach, rhubarb, fresh fruits, fish, chocolate and weet milk; prepare the stomach for each meal by rinsing it out with three pints of warm or cool water; and the ' things to be avoided aro excitement, tight clothing, bonbons, tea, coffee, meat, hot bread, pastry and stimulants of all kinds. ! But that is not all. Before retiring this daughter of Croesus uses pound bells until a free perspiration starts, then she gets down on the floor and walks round the room on her hands and toes until exhausted. ex-hausted. The sleep that ensues is both Invigorating and uninterrupted. And this is tho sort of physical culture that such ladies as Mrs. Calvin Brice, Mrs. Louis Tiffany, Mrs. Roger Pryor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Scribner, Mrs. Sylvanns Reed and Mrs. Lo Moyne aro having their daughters trained in. Letter Let-ter in Chatter. |