It requires self-denial to get rid of pimples, for persons troubled with
them will persist in eating fat meats and other articles of food calculated
to produce them. Avoid the use of rich gravies, or pastry, or anythmg of
the kind in excess. Take all the outdoor exercise you can and never
indulge in a late supper. Retire at a reasonable hour and rise early m the
morning. Sulphur to purify the blood may be taken three times a week—
a thimbleful in a glass of milk before breakfast. It takes some time for
the sulphur to do its work, therefore persevere in its use till the humors,
or pimples have all disappearedo ^^ ^- ■'^^
538 TOILET SUGGESTIONS AND RECIPES,
HOW TO OBTAIN A HANDSOME FORM.
The foundation for a beautiful form must undoubtedly be laid in
infancy. That is, nothing should be done at that tender age to obstruct
the natural swell and growth of all the parts. "As the twig is bent, the
tree's incline," is quite a true of the body as of the mind. Common sense
teaches us that the young fibers ought to be left unincumbered by
obstacles of art, to grow harmoniously into the shape that nature drew.
It is important that the girl should understand, as soon as she
comes to the years of discretion, or as soon as she is old enough to
realize the importance of beauty to a woman, that she has, to a certain
extent, the management of her own form within her power. The first
thing to be thought of is health, for there can be no development of
beauty in sickly fibers. Plenty of exercise, in the open air, is the great
recipe. Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken,
but the wild romping activities of a spirited girl. Everything should be done
to give joy and vivacity to the spirits at this age, for nothing so much aids
in giving vigor and elasticity to the form as these. A crushed, or sad, or
or moping spirit, allowed at this tender age, when the shape is forming, is
a fatal cause of a flabby and moping body. A bent and stooping form is
quite sure to come of a bent and stooping spirit. If you would have the
shape "sway gracefully on the firmly-poised waist" — if you would see the
chest rise and swell in noble and healthy expansion, give the girl vigorous
exercise in the open air.
And what is good for the girl is good for the woman too. The same
attention to the laws of health and the same pursuit of out-door exercise
will help a person to develop a handsome form until she is twenty or twenty-
five years old. "Many a rich lady would give all her fortune to possess
the expanded ch°st and rounded arm of her kitchen girl. Well, she
might have had both by the same amount of exercise and spare living."
And she can do much to aquire them even yet.
There have been many instances of sedentary men, with shrunk and
sickly forms, with deficient muscle and scraggy arms, who by a change of
business to a vigorous outdoor exercise acquired fine robust forms, with
arms as powerful and muscular as Hercules himself. I knew a young
lady, who, at twenty-two years of age, in a great degree overcame the
deformity of bad arms. She began by a strict adherence to such a strong
nutritious diet as was most favorable to the creation of muscle. She
walked every day several hours in the open air, and never neglected the
constant daily use of the dumb-bells. This she continued for two years.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
It requires self-denial to get rid of pimples, for persons troubled with them will persist in eating fat meats and other articles of food calculated to produce them. Avoid the use of rich gravies, or pastry, or anythmg of the kind in excess. Take all the outdoor exercise you can and never indulge in a late supper. Retire at a reasonable hour and rise early m the morning. Sulphur to purify the blood may be taken three times a week— a thimbleful in a glass of milk before breakfast. It takes some time for the sulphur to do its work, therefore persevere in its use till the humors, or pimples have all disappeared.
HOW TO OBTAIN A HANDSOME FORM.
The foundation for a beautiful form must undoubtedly be laid in infancy. That is, nothing should be done at that tender age to obstruct the natural swell and growth of all the parts. "As the twig is bent, the tree's incline," is quite a true of the body as of the mind. Common sense teaches us that the young fibers ought to be left unincumbered by obstacles of art, to grow harmoniously into the shape that nature drew.
It is important that the girl should understand, as soon as she comes to the years of discretion, or as soon as she is old enough to realize the importance of beauty to a woman, that she has, to a certain extent, the management of her own form within her power. The first thing to be thought of is health, for there can be no development of beauty in sickly fibers. Plenty of exercise, in the open air, is the great recipe. Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but the wild romping activities of a spirited girl. Everything should be done to give joy and vivacity to the spirits at this age, for nothing so much aids in giving vigor and elasticity to the form as these. A crushed, or sad, or or moping spirit, allowed at this tender age, when the shape is forming, is a fatal cause of a flabby and moping body. A bent and stooping form is quite sure to come of a bent and stooping spirit. If you would have the shape "sway gracefully on the firmly-poised waist" — if you would see the chest rise and swell in noble and healthy expansion, give the girl vigorous exercise in the open air.
And what is good for the girl is good for the woman too. The same attention to the laws of health and the same pursuit of out-door exercise will help a person to develop a handsome form until she is twenty or twentyfive years old. "Many a rich lady would give all her fortune to possess the expanded ch°st and rounded arm of her kitchen girl. Well, she might have had both by the same amount of exercise and spare living." And she can do much to acquire them even yet.
There have been many instances of sedentary men, with shrunk and sickly forms, with deficient muscle and scraggy arms, who by a change of business to a vigorous outdoor exercise acquired fine robust forms, with arms as powerful and muscular as Hercules himself. I knew a young lady, who, at twenty-two years of age, in a great degree overcame the deformity of bad arms. She began by a strict adherence to such a strong nutritious diet as was most favorable to the creation of muscle. She walked every day several hours in the open air, and never neglected the constant daily use of the dumb-bells. This she continued for two years.