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Show BE Till ID STfflG Dr. Maude Glasgow Expresses! Her Opinion Regarding the Lean and Fat of Her Sex, PLUMP PEOPLE ASTHMATIC Very Thin Ones Have Little Vitality Vi-tality and Generally Go. to Pieces in Jig Time. By Leased Wio to The Tribune. NEW YORK. May 13. To be slender, willowy, wandlike, uthcreal or, in ulaln old English, thin what else has the New York wotmin longed for since the reign of Iho hi)le3s and the hobble skirt began? With fasting, if not with prayer, she lias sought the sllmness, the perfect proportions pro-portions or the chaste and elegant knitting knit-ting needle. Now comes Dr. C. W. Moots, a western west-ern surgeon, who saya a woman ought not to be thin. And Dr. ' Maude Glasgow. Glas-gow. New York's noted woman physician, physi-cian, agives. She says: "Something is very apt to be ' wrong with the woman who tries to make herself her-self . thin by unnatural and artificial means," J'A woman should be neither thin nor fat." Dr. Glasgow continued. "If she Is in proper health she will ho neither plump nor scrawny. Think of tho very fat and very thin women you know. .Are not the former wheezy and asthmatic- and frequently troubled with Indigestion? If you were a tlb'J'slchiu you would- probably find they had weak hearts, have apoplectic apo-plectic tendencies and are apt to contract contagious diseases. "On the other hand, the very thin women, at first glance, seem to be much more efficient than their stout friends. They accomplish a great deal more for a lime. But very often they aro working work-ing almost entlreb on their nerves and when the end comes It comes with a crash. They arc frequently people of low vitality with little constitutional resistance. re-sistance. When they are narrow-chested and stoop-shouldered that is a sure sign of pulmonary weakness. Their circulation circula-tion Is poor. Of course, there arc exceptions, excep-tions, but such only prove the general rule that neither extreme means weakness. weak-ness. . "The modern 'woman nearest to physical physi-cal perfection is tall and 'strong, broad-shouldered broad-shouldered and deep-chested. tihe has hips and a waist line, though it Isn't an elghtcen-ineh affair. There's not an ounce of superfluous flesh on her. Her hands and feet arc not large 'but proportionate propor-tionate to her height. The line from shoulder to hip is not straight like a toothpick, nor does It bow sharply like an hour-glass. It is a long, graceful curve. "A woman must come by this sort of ticure naturally, not artificially, by plenty of work and outdoor exercise and plain food. "The best way to get a good figure is not to think about it. Think about working and walking, sensible hours and sensible food, and the figure will come." |