San Antonio Light and Gazette (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 308, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 27, 1910 Page: 53 of 56
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Mme. Lina Cavalieri X
13k | O thin woman
ever lived who
did not secretly or
openly long for a
rounded even though
only delicately rounded
nniir*
The meagrely formed woman knows that she has departed by her thin-
ness from the original plan for women which is that they should be creatures
of many soft curves. She desires those curves and to secure them she must
continue to swathe herself in a blanket of fat that will overlay her muscles and
bones.
To-day Mme. Cavalieri explains to you in fullest detail how to acquire
the flesh that is needful. Next week she writes of “What Worries ou.
Every woman knows she would be much more attractive were it not for some
lack. Perhaps it is sparsness of eyebrows. It may be a dry unlovely skin.
Probably it is coarse red hands. Next Sunday Mme. Cavalieri will treat
these drawbacks to beauty in her usual thorough and entertaining manner.
By Mme. Lina Cavalieri
zzTS IT possible for me to grain
*• I flesh?" I am often asked by
• thin people. And I always
answer "Yes; but it will require se-
rious and patient effort.”
It is commonly supposed that thin
people are thin tor natural consti-
tutional reasons and that it Is ex-
tremely difficult if not altogether
Impossible to increase weight.
It ts true that many people hold a
certain weight year after year
neither gaining nor losing more than
a pound or two. It Is also true that
many efforts to increase weight ac-
complish nothing.
But thin people need not be dis-
couraged or settle themselves into
the belief that it is impossible to gain
Getting Rid of the Guests
A Pure Food Diet Worked Wonders.
zzw HAVEN’T a minute to stay. Mrs.
I Wagstaff.” remarked Mrs. Cum-
-1 back hurriedly. "I Just dropped
tn to tel! you that Mrs. Bellwether s
house is full of company. Her two mar-
ried sisters with their children have
come to stay goodness knows how
long.
“I think It an imposition on poor Mr.
Bellwether. You know how hard he
works to make both ends meet and
he’s up to hl» ears in debt. His wife
was sick for three months and had the
most expensive doctor In town and a
hired nurse and a girl in the kitchen
and she’s no sooner up and around
than she Invites the whole tribe to
come and visit her and her husband
earns only $3 a day and hasn't had a
new suit of clothes In three years.”
"Mrs. Bellwether seems to have a
weakness for visitors." returned Mrs.
Wagstaff "and that’s a luxury poor
people can’t afford. I’m sure I’d rather
undertake to feed a sacred white ele-
phant than a family of children. Bast
Summer Mrs. Whilllkens came to seo
us without being invited. She s my
husband’s half sister you know but
that gives her no claim on us and. it
was Just pure Impertinence to come and
visit us for three weeks.
“Mr. Wagstaff was Just as disgusted
as I was and he didn't conceal It
either.
"Well she came up here with her
three children and I'm sure I’d rather
have three hyenas in the house. And
the way they ate! My husband said
that feeding them was like shovelling
cern into a shelling machine.
"When the three weeks were up Mrs.
Whilllkens said she enjoyed her-
self so well that she would stay a
fortnight longer. We saw that some-
thing would have to be ddne to rid
of the four of them.”
"How did you manage it?”
"Mr. Wagstaff is a most resourceful
man. and he finally thought up a plan.
You see. we had exhausted everything
in the way of hints and had been real
rude without doing any good and so we
had to resort- to strategy. Mr. Wagstaff
told me his plan and I had my part
learned in advance. So one evening at
the supper table. I began complaining
that I had been feeling miserable for
weeks. I said I was all run down and
tired with headaches and distress after
eating and all those symptoms you read
of in the almanacs. Mr. Wagstaff said
he also had been in wretched health. -
" ‘The trouble withe us.’ said he ‘is
that we live too high' and we’ll have to
get down to a plain diet. From this
day forth no table luxuries come into
this house; no steaks or roasts no straw-
berries or fancy things of any sort. We
are going to live on corn meal mush
and cold water.’
"To show that he was in earnest he
threw out all the canned stuff that was
.i. knuca anti thon wont dnwnfntvn
-A little
hydrochloric
acid will add
power to your
digestive
apparatus.
weight
I have known people of middle age
who have never varied more than a
few pounds in weight for twenty
years to add thirty-five pounds in
one Summer. But this was accom-
plished not by any haphazard luck
but by a most careful persistent and
intelligent system of nourishment.
Most people are accustomed to eat
about the same average amount of food
every day and they are guided In the
amount they eat by their appetite. The
result is that with about the same
dally habits of life and about the same
daily appetite and with about the sarns
consumption of nourishment day after
day the bodily weight continues at a
fixed amount. If one is working extra
hard the appetite may be a little
stronger and the additional weight
which might be gained is consumed by
the extra labor which is being per-
and ordered three or four sacks of
corn meal. Next morning we had
corn meal mush for breakfast. We had
It at noon also and we had It again In
the evening. Mrs. Whilllkens and her
brood sat up to the table like martyrs
and swallowed what they could of the
wretched stuffs You see I had never
made mush before and I made a poor
Job of It.
"This went on for two or three days
and about twice a day I’d find an ex-
cuse to go downtown and then my
husband and I would go to a restau-
rant and have a square meal. And at
home we were always talking enthu-
siastically about how much better we
felt since we adopted a safe and sane
hygienic diet.
"Mrs. Whilllkens surrendered on the
fourth day and rounded up her chil-
dren and packed! her valises and went
away telling her friends ever since
that Mr. Wagstaff is a miser and starv-
ed her out of his home.”
"It served her right. And here I’ve
been sitting nearly an hour and I only
Intended to stay a minute!"
HAGGARD was travelling
across the United States as the
guest of John Hays Hammond in Ham-
mond's private car.
"What I want to see” said Haggard
"is the real tramp. I haven’t seen one
since I reached this country. I can’t be-
lieve you have as many as has been
stated to be the case.”
Harris Hammond the eldest son of
John Hays promised:
“I'll show you one at the next stop.”
He had seen one riding on the trucks
under the car and at the next station he
went down and called the hobo out. When
the tramp entered the car he was cov-
ered with cinders and dust and looked
like something from the .lower regions.
Hammond shook hands with him and
Introduced him saying:
"This 13 Mr. Rider Haggard.”
"Rider Haggard!" exclaimed the hobo.
"Why. I’ve read all of your books and
loved every one of them.”
Then he ear down and discussed litera-
ture with Haggard for half an hour. At
the end of the talk Harris took him back
let him get some of the dust and cinders
off and handed him a good cigar.
"That fellow’s not a tramp’’ said Hag-
gard. "He’s a gentleman in distress.”
IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Young Mother —I can’t make up my
mind what college to send that boy of
mine to.
Schoolmaster —How old Is he?
Young Mother —Nearly six weeks.
A USUAL EXCEPTION.
"Do you know of any exception to
the rule that birds of a feather flock
together?"
"Yes. raven locks with crow's feet."
HIS VIEW.
"This little girl won’t have a doll.
Wants a toy dog.”
“Looks like the true society mother
Instinct.” suggested the other—a mere
man. of course
‘ The "chief factor in gaining
weight is to come to your meals
with more appetite than before
and to eat more than before.
formed. During a Summer vacation it
often happens that there is a gain of
weight of five or eight or perhaps ten
pounds blit this Is lost again as soon
as the old habits of life are resumed
after the vacation is over.
In formulating a system for Increas-
ing weight it is necessary to consider
all of the many factors which may be
made to contribute to the gain.
Of course it must bp understood at
the very outstart that it is necessary
to increase the amount of food we are
eating If we are to increase weight. It
Is not difficult to understand that a per-
son's weight which is maintained at an
even level year after year on a given
quantity of food is not likely to in-
crease unless the quantity of food or
the quality of the food is increased. But
it does not necessarily follow tbit
weight will increase simply by increas-
ing the amount of food consumed.
Many other factors enter into the prob-
lem.
It is probably almost universally true
that we eat many things every day
which are of little or no value. Our
stomachs are often filled with more or
less worthless food Instead of things of
great food value.
The most Important single factor in
gaining weight is the kind of nourish-
ment that is taken.
Bread meat cereals thin soups des-
serts crackers pastry and most vege-
tables are of very little value in In-
creasing weight.
Thick pea or bban soup baked
beans. Boston brown bread rice Welsh
rarebit cheese raw eggs chocolate
milk and cream are the great producers
of weight
It is of course generally well known
that rapid and considerable gains in
weight may be made by drinking large
quantities of milk. The flgsh gained
by abnormal consumption of milk is
likely to disappear as rapidly as it was
acquired; and it is the opinion of many
of the best physicians that too much
milk puts a dangerous strain upon the
kidneys.
Flesh gained through a milk diet is
of doubtful value but flesh gained by
eating the highly nourishing foods I
have recommended is of permanent
value.
If a person is eating all his appe-
tite demands it may be asked how
any one is to eat any more. One
way of creating a larger appetite is
“Break and beat raw eggs into the milk you take before retiring.'
Copyright. 1910 by Amerlcan-Examiner. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
MttfflSnrBEAUTX
to Thum
tfew to (FLesm .
By
Mme. Lina Cavalieri the Mbs'
Famous Living beauty.
“Feed the skin plentifully with
almond or olive oil.’*
to move your meals further apart.
If for any reason you are not able
to get dinner until an hour or mort
after your usual dinner time you
feel a considerably keener appetite
and eat considerably more. If you
will apply this to all the hours for
your meals you will find that you
are eating a considerabiy larger bulk
of food each day. Get up earlier in
the morning and have a longer inter-
val between your breakfast and mid-
day meal and you will eat probably
ten or fifteen per cent more at noon.
Put off your evening meal an hour
later if possible and you will find
that you eat a considerably heavier
evening meal than you had beer
eating.
The older you grow the slower are
your digestive processes. It takes
fully an hour longer for a persoi
of forty-five to digest the same meal
eaten by a person of twenty.
It may be complained that peopK
leading sedentary lives in the city hav<
not digestive power to take care of ar
extra and unnatural amount of food. II
Is entirely true that certain other thing:
must be done to successfully digest and
assimilate unusual amounts of food week
after week. It will not do to stuff your-
self and sit about the house or the office
It Is absolutely necessary to have an
abundance of fresh air to oxygenate the
blood and burn out the waste matter and
impurities. It Is also necessary to take
a reasonable amount of exercise to keep
the digestive organs from congestion and
stagnation. . . .
Everybody knows how pate de foie
gras which Is the fat and diseased liver
of a goose. Is produced. In Strasburg
where most of the pate de foie gras
comes from the unfortunate goose 1«
taken into a dark cellar and one foot Is
nailed to the floor. The goose is then
fed all he will eat and when he has
finished bls meal more food is poked
down his throat with a stick. The goosr
Is. In this way stuffed with food daj
after day. and is not allowed to hav<
fresh air or exercise. The result Is thai
his liver becomes degenerate fat am
enlarged: and this Is the way pate d
foie gras Is produced.
The same sort of thing works In th<
same way with the human anatomy
and if you are to stuff yourself with ex-
tra food and acquire permanent suit
valuable flesh you must thorough!!
oxygenate your blood by fresh air and
a reasonable amount of moderate exen
else. Sleep with your window open at
night and take a walk morning and
evening. Do not run. hurry or take vio-
lent exercise of any kind.
The chief factor In gaining weight Is
to come to your meals with more appe-
tite than ever before and eat more than
ever before. Eat things of the highest
nutritive value. If you are beginning
your dinner with thick rich pea soup
try to eat two or even three helpings of
it. Whatever else you eat help your-
self to double the usual amount and try
to eat It all. And when you are all
through and think you cannot eat any
more then eat a liberal helping of
cheese and after that drink a glass or
two or milk. When you rise from the
table von wll? feel like the little girl who
stuffed herself until her mother inter-
fered and then cried:
Wonder where my cookies go
I don’t know. I don’t know.
Mother hid them on .a shelf.
'Frald I'd burst my little self.
If such a meal taxes your digestion
you mav need help. The chief digestive
agent of the stomach is hydrochloric
acid and you may add power to your
digestive machinery by taking a little.
You may at the same time stimulate the
other gastric secretions with a little nux
vomica. Here is a prescription which
will probably help you take care of your
extra quantity of food:
Diluted Hydrochloric Add. 3 drams.
Tincture Nu* Vomica. 2 drama.
Peppermint Water and Distilled
Water each 2 ounces
'l'aKe iranpoonfnl In wlneglaaaful
nt water 3 time* a day after meals.
Now this is not all. You may still
tako a little more nourishment before
vou <0 to bed. Try drinking two glasses
of milk— always sip milk slowly taking
five minutes for each glassful. Better
vet break and beat two raw eggs Into
the’ milk before you drink it. If you
can get sweet cream drink cream every
dav. Half a glass of cream Is a rather
rich drink but it can be made easy to
digest by diluting it with seltzer. Get
2 syphon of cold seltzer and squirt K
Into the half glass of cream and t
makes a delicious nourishing and dl-
* Malt e and n cod liver oil are admirable
fat producers. There are on the mar-
ket one o? two honest preparations of
-nd cod liver oil which are not
unpleasant to take A tablespoonful in
a glass of milk makes a valuable drink.
You should arrange to
•verv dav. If possible get a bathroom
scale and always J?
•soon as you get out of bed. Whate\er
you weigh at night you will weigh from
one and a half to two pounds less in th
morning. If not convenient to weigh
without vour clothes on. then be sure
you weigh always with the same clothes.
WHITEWASHING WHITEWASH.
”1 think you said. ’Rastus. that you
had a brother in the mining buslnesa
In the West”
"Yeh. boss that’s right.”
"What kind of mining—gold mining.
Silver mining copper ® 1 "'“8? .
"No sah. none o those. kalsomln-
ing."
REAL BARGAIN.
"I cannot marry you I have promised
my hand to someone else so I must re-
-1 turn all your presents.”
"Good gracious whatever can I do
> " "My fla'nee would buy them off you at
a slight reduction."
ON THE CONTRARY.
Slowboy—Do you—er—think your
father would kick me out if I was to—-
er—ask him for your hand?
Miss Willing—No. but I m afraid no
will if you don’t ask him pretty seem
ITS NATURE.
"I wonder Vhy a wheel Is counted
among the sources of energetic power .
"Why shouldn’t it be?"
“Why isn’t it always tired?
A CHARACTERISTIC.
Tommy—Father what is a Bohs-
mlFather—A man wh011 (
; share your last dollar with him my r
' THEN HE SAID “GOOD NIGHT."
i -Do you believe in hypnotism r M*£
* the young man who pays no
“The-e are some people who ”
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