Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — To Reduce and to Get Flesh. [ARTICLE]

To Reduce and to Get Flesh.

In large cities, says Womankind, mid-dle-aged women throng the gymnasium and physical culture schools to.learn howto reduce the too abundant flesh and keep off the rheumatism which is too often au accompaniment. The woman who does her own housework has most of her muscles called into exercise every day, and the danger with her is that they are over exercised; still much relief can be received by sponging ' every night after hard labor with the following inexpensive lotion: Two ounces of spirits of ammonia, two ounces of spirits of camphor, one and one-half cups of sea salt, one cup of alcohol and one quart of rain water. The woman whose face and throat are thin can remedy the thinness by frequent bathing in cool water, and before retiring rubbing in some good cream. In rubbing the wrinkles should be be rubbed against,so as to rub them out; it is as much in the rubbing as in the cream. A nice bit of soft white flannel rubbed several times daily over the face will be beneficial, and she whose double chin detracts from her good looks can, by judicious rubbing downward, get rid of the superfluity.