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Show 1TTLE BEAUTY TALKS. () A i Byflarr-e,: H"bbar(l Ayer. Advice to the Stoat. By Harriet Hubbard Ayer. I care not what specious contrary methods have been proposed as efficacious effica-cious in the cure of obesity methods that appeal to the easy-going nature of the woman weighed down mentally ; and physically by fat, no regime will be successful where the farinaceous and sugary foods are permitted. Deny yourself also all starchy vegetables, such as potatoes, beans and peas. Butter and pork, hot cakes, etc.. all cereals must be blacklisted. Vou will not starve; you still have left beef. mutton, fish, poultry and game, salads, ripe fruits, tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, spin-ach, cabbage, toasted bread, egg3 and lots of other agreeable viands to select from. Take real exercise. Get on a bicycle and swear you will not dismount of your own volition (otherwise you might be too soon forsworn) until you have at least done five miies. Take in addition ad-dition to this a five or even a ten mile walk each day. Keep your sleeping hours within the magic seven no naps, no forty winks. Look upon all sweet wines, beers, etc., as the demon avoirdupois avoir-dupois in propria persona, and flee from them as you would the wrath to come. Learn to drink two or three glasses of hot water instead of iced water. Take a hot scrub from head to feet every day and a cold plunge after. If you can afford massage submit sub-mit to what is called professionally "deep massage." Tou will not need this treatment for the reduction of flesh, but it is extremely useful In hardening har-dening the muscles and preventing the formation cf lines and wrinkles. If you are not circumstanced so that massage Is feasible learn to manipulate your face and throat where lines and fiabbiness are most destructive to beauty. As the flesh decreases and the fat is eliminated from the system the surface of the skin is apt for a time until it is accustomed to the change, to appear dry on the surface. Use the following lotion to allay this dryness: OTange-flower water, one' pint; tincture tinc-ture of benzoin, four drams. Add the orange-flower water very slowly to the benzoin. The most encouraging thing to a woman wo-man plucky enough to literally fight the tat off is the proof that she is succeeding. suc-ceeding. The scales are a great stimulus stim-ulus to renewed effort, and the scales Ml the agreeable story day by day to the earnest obesity patient. It is necessary in order to gauge the amount of exercise required for a loss of three or four pounds a week to know just what the decrease in weight is. Usually the patient loses several pounds (five or six) within the first eight days of the treatment, then as one settles down to a steady regime the decrease should be kept at about three or four pounds a week until the desired weight is attained. By this time the subject has learned the science sci-ence by experience and may be trusted to take certain liberties with the bill of fare. A word of warning should be given on the subject of cathartic medicines and purgatives as flesh - reducers. Nothing is so destructive to the beauty and health. To rush the wrong sort of food through the stomach by the aid of cathartics is like keeping up a roaring roar-ing fire with soft coal. You will create cre-ate a terrific heat and consume ton3 of coal, but you will burn out the best of stoves. |