Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1915 — DIETING TO REDUCE WEIGHT [ARTICLE]

DIETING TO REDUCE WEIGHT

Lettuce, Dry Tofest and Minced Beef Employed/ by One Woman—- * Onions for the Complexion. A woman who wished to reduce her weight says that she has' done so by subsisting almost solely on lettuce, dry toast and minced beef. A girl to improve her complexion has partaken largely, of onion soup, and onions, too, as a vegetable. Some one had told her that the South Sea islanders, who have the best complexions in the world, live almost entirely on onions; and, well, this girl’s complexion has improved since her experiment. Other women have started deep breathing exercises at their open windows, or shower baths followed by the “salt rub,” or are taking all kinds of kitchen physics, such as barley and lemon water, thin gruel made with cream (one doctor describes this as “worth $5 a cup” for the delicate), of borage tea, camomile tea imbibed to induce sleep the last thing at night. And there is the pineapple Juice craze, which has also caught on. A certain American official has had a hand in this with his verdict that “If you have one foot in the grave, and are a nervous wreck through attacks of Indigestion, drink plenty of pineapple Juice. It is the very best tonic that nature has ever offered man, and is even a better weapon againßt old age and decreptitude than the sour milk diet of the Bulgarian peasants.” There is. a prejudice against the sour milk, so much appreciated abroad, and which tastes almost exactly like Junket. You simply pour fresh milk into open soup plates and stand them in a cool larder until the milk has turned into a jelly, which happens pretty soon. Partaken of with a little good cream, browned brown bread crumbs and sugar, sour milk Is very wholesome; really something of a delicacy, and hundreds of peasants in mid-Europe simply live and move and have their being upon it.