Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-02-24 | Page 13 | If You Would Shed Weight Paint a House

IF YOU WOULD SHED WEIGHT WEIGHT PAINT A HOUSE By HORTENSE SAUNDERS N NEA EA Service Writer NEW YORK Feb 24 Its It's Its It's the first ten pounds that are the easiest to take talce of off oU f. f The woman who never allows herself herself her herM self to get more than ten pounds overweight needn't worry Its It's after an extra 40 or 50 pounds accumulate the matter gets serious This advice from New ew York motion motion motion mo mo- tion picture players whose contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts stipulate that excess avoirdupois dupois dupois pounds is a frequent limit means limit means an automatIc la layoff orr Because reducing Is a business as ts well as a a. personal matter with them they have made a fine science out out of It And they have their own pet waSs waS's ways was of coming down the scale rapidly Estelle Clark once lost 15 pounds In three weeks erased every curve and made It a straight line merely by living on orange juice She didn't exercise She let the oranges do the trick Norma Shearer Shearel places her confidence confidence confidence con con- In starch Of course even the word starch Is anathema to the adipose contingent but not the wa way Norma use uses It She puts it outside outside outside out out- out out- side Instead instead- of inside She takes a minute 15 starch bath every four days Not only is the starch bath thinning she sa says s 's but also It Is for forit forit it jt gives her skin a smooth satiny quality that water cannot cannot cannot can can- not impart She warns however that once In every four days Is often enough for this treatment and that to overdo it would be disastrous When Gertrude Olmstead finds herself gaining she av avoids elevators and climbs stairs at every Walk up and down stairs 10 times a day she advises But heres here's the catch It It must be done at one time The most original suggestion comes from Joan Crawford Paint a a. house says she Not long ago she found herself in the early and It happened Just at a time when her cottage needed a new dressI dress I r remember I 1 never had seen seena a L fat house painter so I 1 did the work myself Miss Crawford re re- re ports Climbing ladders and going through the physical exertion of painting brought me right back to normal