HOW JAPANESE KEEP SLENDER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5400, 15 March 1929, Page 4

HOW JAPANESE KEEP SLENDER.

To be fat in Japan i- almost a crime, and no Japanese woman, especially who has any regard for hei’ personal appearance, would allow het' sejlf to add one inch to her measurements, no matter what her age Or position in Hie. This is all the more remayk.able because the staple food of the Japanese is rice, and that is considered a very fattening substance, especially when eaten as the sole dish at a meal.

Japanese women never drink with thejir meals, and they take no alcohol of any sort. Water, and in large quantities, is necessary to renew the tissues and preserve a youthful appearance, by preventing the skin from wrinkling and becoming dry and harsh. The Japanese beauty knows this, and she would ns, soon omit her daily baths as the drinking of water. This, however, again is never with food, for she realises that such a lapse from the rigid path of beauty culture would scon destroy the slim, graceful lines of her figure.

The Japanese woman keeps, her figure slender and supple chiefly through frequent bathing and because she never allows herself to slumber on a feather bed) or even on a luxurious hair mattress. The couch upon which a Japanese beauty tanes he? rest is a hard and unyielding one. It braces the muscles and. keeps the spine, supple so' that no ugly lumps of. ageing fat form around the neck and shoulders or the upper arms.