The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1901, Page 6

K WHAT TO DO. 1—Take plenty of exercise. 2—~Thoroughly masticate all your food. 4 3—Breathe deeply. 4—Massage. § 5—Eat regularly. Bk oo HE stout people are the ones who receive most attention in beauty .col- ums. The thin ones are usually for- gotten. & This isn't fair. It’s a hard life for the girl who never dares show her meager arms and who has to resort to all sorts of devices in the way- of lace and ribbon and flower trimmings to con- ceal the serawny neck and shoulders t.hat a decollete gown brutally reveals, This girl deserves a few tips, and she is going to get them here and now on this page. . ‘ Perhaps you will think it odd to rcad certain advice for gaining needed flesh and find that it is idemtical with some glven to get rid of superfluous flesh. It deesn’'t look reasonable at first glance that one should get stoul by the same system which another uses to get thin. Yet it is consistent, and for this reason: Excessive stoutness and excessive thin- ness are both abnormal and unhealthy, Improving the general. health will tend to bring . the body to a normal develop- ment, and certain exercises will do this for either the fat or the thin, One must bear in mind that it takes time to overcome a fault which has been growing for years. Physical cultfre means hard but very pleasant work, If you have a scrawny neck and hollaw chest you cannot expect to fill them out in a week, It takes thme for muscle to Erow, First, the system has to undergo a change, New blood has to be made, and this means patience and hard wftk, But then who would not counsider time well spent for plump shoulders, a high ches and rountled throat? If you thin ta sired roundness of contour it lies within your power to overcome this fault uu- less you be the victlm of some wasting are too possess the de- THE SUNDAY CALL. P and incmable disease. Beauty and strength are surely within your reach. If you are too thin you are not in nor- mal health., 'The neglect to thoroughly masticale is one of the frequent causgs of malassimilation which often results in excessive thinness. The welght is influenced not, by what vou eat, but by what you assimilate, If you should eat seven times a day it might not have the slightest effect upon your weight, Eating too fast and drinking too much fluid with the meals is slow suicide. When we eat too fast the food is not properly mixed with saliva, Most of us are inclined to eat more than pature requires, We would be in far better condition if we ate less than we do and only when we are hungry. Lack of exercise I8 a great hindrance to digestion; also irregularity in eating, The digestive organs are subject to habit like the rest of the system, At the aecus- tomed meal time saliva and digestive flu- ids flow. If no food is taken when they are prepared they do not start so readily again, -~ N tNISS <EITH VVOAREMAN pSY LESSONg . G Hot water taken three times a day, a half-hour before meanls, is one of the very best .remed for indigestion, The following exercises are easily learned without personal instruction. Read them over first, pieturing them men- tally as you do so. Then read them again, trying them to make sure you un- derstand each. Next, memorize them, and you are ready to begin work in ear- nest: Deep breathing in the open air is one of the very best exercises for filling out hollows and developing the bust, Inhale a long deep breath slowly through the nose and exhale slowly through the mouth. Do this in the open for at least At first /ill feel weak, ten minutes, you but that will be a good sign You will soon be able to take deep breaths for twenty minutes, and you will breathe the correct way come natu- more deeply at all times; of breathing will begin to rally, °* A very gopd exercise for the neck is this: lL.et the head fall slowly backward as far as possible; do this ten times. This leads to a well-poised head, which is a fitting accompaniment to a shapely body. For a second exercise, circle the head round and round, W a = Q4 Y S = WHAT NOT TO DO. | — 1—Don’t eat rapidly. 2—Don’t drink much fluid with your meals, 8—Don’t neglect your diges- tive organs. 4—Don’t take medicines for thinness. 5—Don’t neglect the syste- matic exercises for a single day. oo — Third, standing with wéight on balls of feet, place right foot forward, then try to touch the right shoulder wth the right ear, -Always look at the ceiling while you are doing this. Do the same exercise with the left foot, left shoulder and left ear. *hes the muscles. in the This exercise stret neck and shoulders. Raise shoulders straight up as high as you can; hold them so until you are tired, then push shoulder back as far as possi- ble, then forward. When you feel the least tired, stop. This is different from exercising for burni o-fashe n.ihat at S worK unul the muscles ache. age Is excellent for the bust and but not for the face, It is very likely to make lines and it has a tendeney to toughen the skin, causing one to look old, Massage of the bust, chest and neck may be used in connection with these ex- ercizes to bring about more rapid results, Here 1s an excellent recipe for develop- ing the bust: One ounce pure lanoline. Seven drops essence of péppermint, Twenty drops almond oil. Mix well and apply to the bust with tips of fingers. Massage lightly and always with circular movement for ten minutes, Wipe off as much of the.eream as possi- ble with a coarse towel and rub dry with almond meal. This will do away with any hair which may try to grow. Massage the shoulders with pure lano- line, kneading and pinching the flesh af- ter bathing with hot water to open the pores, As to diet, white grapes are very fatten- ing, as are apples, and, in fact, sweet fruits of any Kkind. Get up early, say at 6:30 o'cléek in the morning, when the air is invigorating, and take a walk before breakfast, first drinking a glass of very hot water, Breathe deeply. Inhale and exhale slowly while you walk. This tones up the system, making new blood and muscle, and the hollows will disappear, Ounly, give them tme, v