| Show Your Baby And Ad Mine Mie By MYRTLE MYRThE MEYER flEYER S ELDRED ELDED MATERNITY DEMANDS SOME SO I PERMANENT SACRIFICES Loss of ot her girlish figure Is I always a great trial to the mother She wants want children she adores them but she is given give to much useless sighing i if she ic doesn't look eX exactly like a young YOUg girl irl again agai the moment the te episode is i past past ast It I might be disillusioning but un tin- educational for lor mothers to lo carefully observe the normal noral mature figure gure Most mothers focus their eyes upon pon the figure of youth and demand that hat nursing leave no trace or the experience of maternity no permanent perma- perma neat nent scars upon It It That Tat is too to much mucho to o ask ak CHANGE NECESSARY A mother need not be dreadful looking look- look ing ng lag nor should she feel eel disgraced because because be- be cause ause she cannot hold her own in a beauty contest contes with wih the unmarried women women Growth of any kind demands that hat we change The envious comparison comparison com corn parison of the mature with the immature immature immature im im- im- im mature figure argues argue that there is no such uch change We all al know better beter The following problem is ning ening but it i is erroneously being at at- to maternity and not to too to great an Interest in the te Mrs Mr G G. G H H. Y asks ak Tell el me what to do I Ilave have lave three lovely children and a good husband but I look like a n moun- moun go tam aln ti I was thin thi when hen I was wa married but ut you ought ought to see ee me m now Can I exercise to reduce my abdomen I assure asre you I have to do something I I cannot bear myself Also is there tere anything one can cn do to develop the tha breasts breast to their former contours It I seems to me that even three children shouldn't make a woman look book th the way I do OVERWEIGHT OVERWEIGH PROBABLY I have a feeling that most of your troubles roubles are due only to overweight That hat you cant can't blame entirely on maternity maternity ma ma- though you may have acquired ac an- the habit of overeating at that time Exercises will help you to create cre ate a greater need for more food but unless you cut down materially on your consumption of food you wont won't notice any loss of weight I Ido do not bc- bc lieve In freak diets or in the use of dangerous glandular medications And unfortunately I do not have diet lists for adults but only for chil dren However anyone even without with out a doctors doctor's help can reduce her hor weight by simply cutting in half the amounts of all food eaten I consider all foods essential to a good diet and the amounts you eat are quite within your own power to diminish You'll lose weight gradually and safely As for the contours of the breast these are materially changed by nurs ing I am asked this question hundreds hun hun- of times every year jear There is nothing one can do about it since it Is natural for the breast to lose bose its firmness alter after nursing This is a ludicrously small price to pay for the joy of providing ones one's baby with the nourishment intended for him |
