HOW TO KEEP THIN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 20 April 1912, Page 10

HOW TO KEEP THIN.

With their penchant for automobiles nml sylph-like figures—and this applies equally to men and women—society finds itself "in a quandary, says an English writer. The. luro of the motor-car is irresistible, and in consequence flesh, great rolls of it, continue to pile up, and modistes and tailors arc put to desperate straits when they seek to bring out and accentuate graceful linos in the- gnrmoiit.9 they design for inadamo and her husband. Dnnio Fashion decrees that the men and women of tho present era shall bo willowy and graceful. Devotees of tho automol'iilo find, to their utter dismay, that instead of being willowy they are fast becoming billowy, and staring them in tho face is the choice of starvation or muscleracking exercise, tho latter meaning, of course, less lounging in motor-ears. No less an authority than Dr. .1. T. M. Finuov, the eminent chief surgeon of tho Johns" Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, who but lately declined tho presidency of Princeton University, declared that if tho men and women ot to-day devoted more time to golf and less to their automobiles, not; onll would their general health bo much improved, but they would not 1* assailed by that nrch foo of tho averago ninn ami woman of wealth-embonpoint.