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Show the Actress, Who k Figure One-Third SQ ff frSE Back Again "Sixty-two pounds are a lot. A pint of MD9 .-y milk weighs a pound. It was as if I was iJjS-'fiL ' j!$Mr '.-??'4i ' BHfcJl! eternally carryi aud wthn the artist is the slave of her public; the ser- iBBr L. V' ' J! . BhBHH:- Sif condUioi U) actress must wax . H; nj gust Just Before and Outline of Miss Carus'c 'JljM XTVf " V & - . ' . mSSt " r ort-ane according to the part for which " . .. fPI i. mm Vf " 1 . B Jrche Is cast. I began to bant. I continued Present Proportions. -"K JBj ' ' ' iC. V - , the others"' A 'system of" exercises culled my neck. 1 suose "NL-. 1 ? ' - ) "f ' v - T v - Miss Emma Carus, Just Be- from every written or spoken source I that somehow m my jfew ' if ' ' '' - P fore She Began to Reduce. lUherock-a-byebaby7 I sat upon the floor ice cream and that " 'jf w"" V ' J C-et Eac'-- to ThWeirht I can recommend it. I has greater ef- Jtport norb-.i 'L . ' v X ' ' an' :r",rf becaas of this. Reduction by diminishing the vital- one who gave it a passing glance, but If flcacy than the side to side rolling that gundy nor sip of golden V ' &k 'v - 4 A "V J f ' v fa-.e-nicg. i:y lowers the resistance .to disease. I his eve, traveled 10 the chin and upward T tangcrous''0 Mocflon-3 sheTry- Absolutely- in" : " ' W He said he felt in- have no doubt that the pandemic of Span- he would'sustain a shock. I have never n rubber combination suit over 'my .olen nlbbfeat toast 'eaTa " -&8Mi f VM ferior while she sat ish influenza reaped a greater harvest be- known any,:., vho materially reduced underwear ind and m r.-.-n and cloak- thin slice of rare baef , ix? , i t(' fp ' tttii at the table n,ob!m cause of lar"e number of women who her weight who did not do so at the cost I reduced the amount of food 1 ate one- and toy with a leaf or ' fCM1-" s v -4 W while he ate. So had depleted their vitality bv strenuous of her facial attractiveness. 3; ,ThP "' ' ';? of be mea' two of green salad. j. f , J - ' , ' " " heme rc-dur-non. The skin that' has been stretched to erejean m,a, and toa-, and green What a Me- JVhy t , '1,SB and ate zweiback. Yet when there was no pandemic to add drum-like tightness over the features will For three weeks nothing happened. I to "dinners? The person ' & A rsi lM$:i' J&- H , ' ' r-k 'm Gradually she lost its terrors to that of world war, women fall in forlorn folds over a curtailed space, was disheartened. Then I discovered that wno is dieting is as W i 's -f' PJ ' 'V0WWI0i b,!r strenSth- One died for vanity. I know a young woman What else is to become of it, unless my exercise was building muscle which welcome at a feast as j . ,4'' glf. "M-AmlSISff'V J l!oP5 berome anae- v-ho lost (fifty pounds through starvation you put the face in cold st. rage' That is replaced the fat. Fat w-eighs little, muscle a death's head. Jl 1 Ti . ' ' iRi? J M ' mi, while reducing, last year, contracted a heavy cold, obeved unless vou keen it as it were on ice Ice weighs much. Bat muscle" are smaller r retipat it Food and 4B 4ssH i- -BMKMwWSSlfmSmlWi ... , - . . ' unleb! 1 were, on .- . ice and less bulky than fat While I had lost drink we essenUal to ; 11 t " f 'p0i?W:'0.kr - - .:-.-r mync:! Mm went to Cuba, wbere became my reliable cosmetic while I was scarcely a pound I could but observe that good fellowship. They , lMlP . Jl ff'gf" ' ljWaI'.a f , 1 'I the theatre with her she died. There was not enough of losing my sixty-two pounds. 1 gave my my belts were loose. I took heart. are the legs on which W'i'S J Pu',,"s lWcPaBpKB husband, because by strength left in her to combat pneumonia, face cold ironings passing the fee over Te!chPwi,m0rtt riV-e'innHn.ia!vv fl? Popularity moves. In " 'STlH nine o'clock she was There is another consideration. You it half a dozen times a da3 This made sausnede I hlveTumfed 7yZ ZZVnZ.r ' t J X Jr I -d and wanted to have ,0 work harder to entertain peonie ,e skin firm and hardened the muscles, tract to be equal in the sense of avoirdu- A mUe back j , - A- t """ 20 t0 bed- Hfi went when you are. thin. I found this in my As the flesh left my face the frequent JVPois to toy part. The sacrifice to the gajd tha, m: dlsposl. ' -i withdut her. She rehearsals of "Listen, Lester." Formerly application of ice fitted the skin to the 'i j!lMhin V1 1at b6eU mad6' 1 DaVe tion has changed. Ire. " W$We 1 grew irritable and when I came on th stage people settled muscles. Cold km contracts. "1 TT my m,T Patlt- When next you ; Imim I ft Photograph of Miss Cams Now Since Her contentious. One day back and grinned at me. The work was The ice performed the function of contract- W PoL ,f ' , 7 , ,. ..s,t the Zoo watch the . JMISgMHm M I f ro pJ .J puw.. wei out, slam- half done. They did it. Now when a slim ng the skin forgetting the artist and speaking as a lioness pacing her case Loss of o Pounds and Photograpo v . , "i ing me sain, woman all that formerly made life sweet and snarling. Picture a . f of Her Rather Generous Figure ming the door, and woman enters, their faces don t change. If your facial contour and freshness es- has vanished. woman In whom that ? S ' p" . u " . never cam, back " If -icy do. they harden into a "Oh, J cape the ravag . . thinning you will be My old friends have dropped away from -tate is chronic. That . JferV Previous to Her 1 reatmenl As a woman wastes don't know. Yon may be funny, but you f,.n.to , 1 m i,.h ,j,( "No-.v, jauuiu 'any mw-guided mw-guided host or hostess invite me to a dinner I would shake my head forlornly at the soup, wave away the tempting tempt-ing entree, decline the vegetables, refuse the pudding or ice cream. How I once revelled in ice cream! Even now I dream of it, always in great quantities. A peculiarly recurrent dream makes me walk in pink and brown and white bricks of it up to my neck. I suppose that somehow in my dreams I have blended my constant longing for ice cream and that tower in the City Hall Park, in New York, each brick representing a fiftv dollar bond. "Sixty-two pounds are a lot. A pint of ! milk weighs a pound. It was as if 1 was eternally carrying around with me the equivalent of sixty-two pints of milk upstairs, downstairs, every time I got up out of a chair, every step I took I was lifting up and holding up all day long those sixty-two unnecessary pints of milk. This was the picture that grew in my mind and I determined to stop it." By Emma Carus. WOMEN, "plump and pleasing," who who can stay comfortably at home and do as you like, this story of reduction and its consequences is addressed ad-dressed to you. I lost sixty-two pounds and wish I hadn't. I will tell you how I did it, and why I I wish I hadn't. I do this because I believe it is my duty to womankind to point out the 'j dangers with which they reckon not wher they set forth recklessly to reduce, by whatever means. Eighteen months ago I weighed 197 pounds. To-day my weight is 135 pounds. I made the sacrifice for art's sake. The star part which had been written for me in "Listen, Lester" required a fairly slender slen-der woman. My state was the antithesis of slenderness. It was necessary to lessen my girth or forego my starring tour. An artist is the slave of her public; the servant ser-vant of conditions. An actress must wax Mwane according to the part for which fhe is cast. I began to bant. I continued to bant. Behold me thoroughly and successfully suc-cessfully banted. And I concluded 1 would feel better and Jook better if I should reduce fifty or sixty pv nds. I actually accomplished sixty-two pounds. i Now, sixty-two pounds are a lot. A pint I of milk weighs a pound. It was as if I was I eternally carrying around with me the equivalent of sixty-two pints of milk upstairs, up-stairs, down stairs, every time I got up out of a chair, every step I took I was lifting np and holding up all day long those sixty-. sixty-. two unnecessary pints of milk. This was the picture that grew in my mind and I determined to stop it. I relied upon the three chief agents of reduction. They are diet, exercise and perspiration. None is efficacious without the others. A system of exercises culled ,"j from every written or spoken source I could reach was adopted. One exercise I myself invented. I call , It the rock-a-bye baby. I sat upon the floor. drew up my knees, clasped my bands about i them and rocked forward until my fore-, fore-, f head (Hindu-like) touched the ground. then rocked backward until the back of ' I my head met the floor. I can recommend it. It has greater efficacy ef-ficacy than the side to side rolling that "i was once so popular and has been always 5; dangerous. I took, long walks, wearing a nf rubber combination suit over my woolen underwear and under my gown and cloak. I reduced the amount of food I ate one-half. one-half. The poor remnants of the meal were lean meat and toast and green salads. For three weeks nothing happened. I "as disheartened. Then I discovered that my exercise was building muscle which replaced the fat. Fat weighs little, muscle weighs much. But muscles are smaller and less bulky than fat. While I had lost scarcely a pound I could but observe that my belts were loose. I took heart. By the most rigid self denial T have Teached the state of 135 pounds. My manager man-ager is satisfied. 1 have fulfiled my contract con-tract to be equal in the sense of avoirdu-Jv avoirdu-Jv pois to tny part. The sacrifice to the lloch of art has been made. I have A1! aumiplished my stent, if But. And again BUT. Vf Forgetting the artist and speaking as a I woman all that formerly made life sweet has vanished. My old friends have dropped away from He. The characteristics they had liked in me are gone. f The men who were in love with me when t I was one hundred and ninety-seven nounds now look pityingly at me or don't. 'ok at all. I am no longer their "type." I There is no question about it. My dis-I dis-I Position has changed. You cannot have a Cassius figure and a Falstaff disposition. Look upon the pictures on this page and ' I you will see a woman Falstaff converted I into a lean ami hungry Cassius- Yes, I J am not the Emma Carus I once was. L Time was wdien 1 loved my kind. It , was my joy to mingle with humanity. Now s 1 am just around the corner from a a misogynist. 1 have become a solitary. I A lead a hermit life because nobody wants tte and I want nobody. .A Does the statement seem overdrawn? It fl isn't by a letter. Let me explain away your doubts. Food and drink are the concomitants con-comitants of good fellowship. You cannot. I have failed to notice that. Well, what of 1 theperson who can neither eat nor drink? T to lie the life nf a narty at a feast, sphere is good reason lor that. 1 say it . ,1 Without egotism. The life of the party be-- be-- : l5ause ' so bviously and evidently and unmistakably enjoyed the food and drink.. Nor may I taste a glass of port nor burgundy bur-gundy nor sip of golden sherry. Absolutely, inexorably, in-exorably, no. I' may nibble at toast, eat a thin slice of rare beef and toy with a leaf or two of green salad. What a life ! Why should people invite me to dinners? The person who is dieting is as welcome at a feast as a death's head. I repeat It. Food and drink are essential to good fellowship. They are the legs on which popularity moves. In consequence as a 'woman T am unpopular. A little way back I said that my disposition disposi-tion has changed. I repeat re-peat it. When next you visit the Zoo watch the lioness -pacing her cage and snarling. Picture a woman in whom that state is chronic. That any more because ' they were fattening. He said he felt inferior in-ferior while she sat at the table nibbling while he ate. So she stayed at home and ate zweiback. Gradually she lost hdr strength. One does become anaemic anae-mic while reducing. She wouldn't go to the theatre with her husband, because by nine o'clock she was tired and wanted to go to bed. He went without her. She grew irritable and contentious. One day he went out, slamming slam-ming the door, and never came back. As a woman wastes of this. Reduction by diminishing the vitality vital-ity lowers the resistance ,to disease. I have no doubt that the pandemic of Spanish Span-ish influenza reaped a greater harvest because be-cause of the large number of women who had depleted their vitality by strenuous reduction. Yet when there was no pandemic to add its terrors to that of world war, women died for vanity. I know a young woman who lost (fifty pounds through . starvation last year, contracted a. heavy cold, obeyed her physicians and went to Cuba, where she died. There was not enough of strength left in her to combat pneumonia. There is another consideration. You have to work harder to entertain people when you are thin. I found this in my rehearsals of "Listen, Lester." Formerly when I came on the stage people settled back and grinned at me. The work was half done. They did it. Now when a slinj woman enters, their faces don't change. Or, if they do, they harden into a "Oh, I don't know. You may be funny, but you don't look it. Show me." It is possible that nobody loves a fat man, though I doubt it. But let me whisper whis-per a secret to you, dear readers. Everybody Every-body is prepared to like a fat woman. The world- goes at least half way to meet her. It anticipates her funmaking. She is plump, therefore pleasing and presumably jolly. Women may admire the new Emma Carus more than they did the old. But men do not. The rage for reduction Is a purely feminine craze. The majority of men prefer pre-fer the woman whose bddy is well covered with flesh. There was Stanford White's advice to Evelyn Thaw, of course, "Don't get fat." But against that I set W. S. Gilbert's Gil-bert's phrase, "plump and pleasing," and Rudyard Kipling's sneer at the "rag and) the bone and hank of hair." Upon the altar of sacrifice to be thin you must lay hours of sweet sleep. I used to sleep ten hours. I awoke refreshed and happy, loving the world. Now I sleep seven or less, and my awakening thoughts of life and humanity would neither sound nor "read" well. One more warning I sound. Would you gain a figure and lose a face? The lessened les-sened bulk of your figure might deceive one who gave it a passing glance, but If bis eyes traveled to the chin and upward he would'sustain a shock. I have never known anyone who materially reduced her weight who did not do so at the cost of her facial attractiveness. The skin that has been stretched to drum-like tightness over the features will fall in forlorn folds over a curtailed space. What else is to become of it, unless you put the face in cold storage? That is unless you keep it, as it were, on ice. Ice became my reliable cosmetic while I was losing my sixty-two pounds. I gave my face cold ironings, passing the fee over it. half a dozen times a day. This made the skin firm and hardened the muscles. As the flesh left my face the frequent application of ice fitted the skin to the muscles. Cold, as you know, contracts. The ice performed the function of contracting contract-ing the skin. If your facial contour and freshness escape es-cape the ravages of thinning you will be fortunate, or 1 would better say prudent, if your hands have not aged. A woman first shows her age in her bands. If, despite de-spite all I have said, you persist in reducing, reduc-ing, massage your hands twice a day or oftener with olive oil or nourishing cold cream. Unless you do this the falling away of the fat will leave tiny mountains and valleys on ihe backs of your hands. The mountains are (he veins, the valleys the places where once fat was. Strike your normal weight by eating moderately and exercising in the same degree. But don't strenuously reduce. What will it profit you if you lose fifty or a hundred pounds and lose with them all the things that made life sweet? Honest, 1 wish I hadn't. I know no reason why any woman should reduce unless she Is a model or ah actress, and must. If it is your nature to be plump, stay plump. For I have shown you that reduction may bring in its train loss of friends, of facial 1 prettiness. of enjoyment of the pleasures of the table, maybe the loss of your husband; perhaps, prematurely, that of your life. Don't' f is I. There are several unsuspected un-suspected reasons for crossness besides what George M. Cohan calls a "mean disposition." One of these is hunger. "don't you1 know me?" 1 stared at my old friend. Her figure was eiehteen. Her away, for that is the term I would use for reduction she becomes aware that it is an extravagant pastime. At first I had my dresses taken in at the waist line and diminished at the hips. But that isn't feasible. I had to discard my old clothes and buy new ones. Let me here utter the solemn w-arning. If you are Hooverizing clothes don't bant. Reduction means the cost of tw'o years' clothes. The well dressed woman's wardrobe is usually stocked with enough new clothes for one year, and that cau be freshened and remodelled for another. If she grows less she must sacrifice these clothes. She must." in fact, change her clothes habits. I actually have to wear smaller gloves. Once I wore six and a half. Now I wear sixes. My boots are a size smaller. Even my hat is a size smaller. Think of the waste of good costume material at this costly time. But perils greater than loss of friends and lovers and husbands, inconveniences and expenses greater than a wholly new wardrobe from hats' to boots, wait on foolish reduction. They are the menaces to one's health. Drugging and drenching the intestines may cause paralysis of those organs. I could mention instances Great Britain Rights Reserved, Once I was accounted an amiable woman. But no longer. Remember the hungry lioness in her cage? The woman who has banited forms the habit, whether she wishes to or not. of sitting alone. It is a habit that once begun is likely to be a lifelong one. It happens that I am not married. Once I was, but we will draw the veil of oblivion oyer that- It Is not among my sweet memories. T will tell you the story of a a friend of mine. The story might easily have been mine, had I been in the husbanded hus-banded state when I started banting. My friend was plump and jolly. She had s. smile that cheered and a laugh that intoxicated But when I met her this Summer she was a changed woman. I saw her a block away, but did not. recognize recog-nize her. 1 thought the figure ahead of me was that of a girl. As I was passing without, with-out, recognition, she stopped me. "Emma," she said, in a mournful voice. face eighty. When she tried to smile her face resolved itself into what seemed a thousand wrinkles. "Have you been ill?" I asked. "Not ill, but reducing." "How's your husband?" "I don't know. I've lost him along with -he forty pounds." As we walked up Broadway it became a Via Dolorosa. "I wouldn't do it again for a million dollars," she said. "My vanity has cost me my life's happiness. I would like to strangle the women that came to me with their reduction craze and remedies. Everyone a profound friend! There should be a law to send them to jail as there is for fortune tellers. They make as much trouble." I drew the story from her. She and her husband had be?b pals." She had aiways been willing to go with him wherever wher-ever he wished. He had liked table d'hotes. She wouldn't indulge in them .. .. fi.nvplirliL 191!. bv Star CoreDany. |
