Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — Diet Affects the Carriage. [ARTICLE]

Diet Affects the Carriage.

.“There are foods that make for a good carriage,” says a teacher of physical culture. “The Japanese women, who live on rice, carry themselves very eject. The Russian women, who live on hearty food, are also noted for their brilliant bearing. The Irish and the English are notoriously fine in their walk. “Sweets give a woman a bad walk. If she takes an afternoon tea of bonbons she will have little appetite for her dinner afterward, and soon she will bend forward as though ‘there were an emptiness In her stomach. “Yet I must qualify this. When I take my pupils out for an afternoon walk I make it a point to give them two lumps of sugar each at five o’clock. A little sugar just at this hour wards off fatigue. I also give them a little green stuff, which takes away the thirst. For dinner I tell them to eat lettuce and watercress, so that they will not feel the need of Jellies and other heavy sweets. The resuit is a loss of flesh and a gain of appetite. I insist that my patronesses carry themselves well. Otherwise of what use is a fine gown? I can not design for a woman who walks as though she were pulling a cart.”