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AUGUST 28, 1910. DIETING AND EXERCISE Dieting and exercise for women and the benefits of swimming to Improve the figure was the subject of a lecture given recently by Annette Kellermann of the Orpheum at the Boston theater before a large audience of women. Miss Kellermann said, ln part: "It seems to be the general impres sion that whenever , a girl or ■ woman takes up athletics she abandons her feminine ways and undertakes to look masculine, and others are afraid to take up athletics on account of mus cular development. Now, I maintain that any woman can take up athletics and still remain feminine and artis tic. "Of course, sometimes athletics tend to make a woman muscular, but with the right exercise this Is easily over come. "Now the main point Is, of course, exercise. Second Is dieting. It seems remarkable that many women com plain of their weight and can't seem to understand it. They live un easy life, eat and drink Just whatever they please, regardless of the harm It does. I have always noticed, and there has never been an exception, that while In a restaurant, some women will eat and drink to excess. "Now, of course, no woman can be right physically If she doesn't choose her food. They seem to take it as a mat ter of fact, while many do not Indulge that way, but go In more for exercise. The first thing a girl does after tak ing up athletics Is to adopt ii mascu line appearance, walk and action. Now. .1 think that is all wrong, for no matter how much of an athlete a girl may be, she should never forget that she is a woman. ' "Another thing I want to speak of is dieting. In order to be In good physical condition you must sacrifice little pleasures In the way of eating. It may.be Interesting for you to know that I seldom eat meat, I am, not a vegetarian by any means, but, regard less of all theories, I maintain that the less meat ■ you eat the more per fect will be your health and strength. The only time I eat meat is Defore taking a long swim, and this merely to add weight Instead of strength. "I will give you an example of how my meals are taken. On arising in the morning the first thing I do Is to take a lemon In a glass of hot water. I never miss a morning without my lemon and hot water. It Is without doubt the healthiest drink, far better than breakfast coffee or plain hot wa ter. I have never missed this drink for the last four years. If you will try this, you will find, much to your surprise, how refreshing It Is, and In a week's time you will feel like a new woman. Nothing but Just lemon and hot water. After that I exercise 20 minutues. ■ "At noon time I eat my first and best meal of the day. My meal con sists of vegetables and sometimes oysters. Of course, there may be a lot of women who could not get along without meat, but Just try It, and. after a while you will see how easy it Is to enjoy a meal without meat. "In the matter of drinking—time and again I have gone Into a restaurant and notice women drinking beer. wine, etc. Of course, I do not say that it Is wrong for a woman to drink, but she should choose her liquor as well as her food. They do not feel the ef fects until later on, then they begin to grow fat, begin to complain and can't Imagine the reason why. That Is why I say by sacrificing yourself a little before you will gain so much after. "Another thing, never eat anything before retiring. If you are very hun gry, take a b'scuit and hot water— by that I mean one of those little crack ■ ers—and you will find that you will sleep much better and feel much bettor the ne^t day. for a healtbv holy al ways has a healthy mind." Miss Kellerman attributes her most perfect- physical condition to swim ming, which she regards as the great est of all exercises, and yet she de clares that the only place to learn swimming Is In a natatorlum or swim ming school. Now. It Is oulte evident thai swim- . mine is a form of exercise. imprac ticable to most peonle. Comparatively few women, especially, can avail them-' selves habitually of this athletic ac complishment. But everybody ran walk, and walking is regarded by many as the most natural and wholesome kind of exercise. In these days, t when health is being sought more and more through proper diet and exercise In the open air. It is the pirt of wisdom for woman to keep abreast with the thought of the.day and make the most of her time and opportunities. Faith ful in a few thlnes. she may Become ruler over many things, LOS ANGELES HERALD SUNDAY MAGAZINE - i kWm Fin-^ffi 6_s _t_9 _Hi A * ______■ __r '..B ' ' 'Ji E^_k if J_S Sl 9B *9jM ?_n_l_ .**SBp'l'.Z-»-' ", Hfeh__ ' -tk^la - ■ |M / _ff^'^Hk ' ''.'•'■''' ' >'':*_fi_ _, in _^S__, ' Sf 5 -_! •% .PjH _r ___r ___£& SSflk *iPlf_l-_r ,vi • ■ ?"• - lis • - *v_ Sfis _'_! s 1 I B__^W_7_£^J^^?^^*»*S-h^_B _^S I . '^aWaWlß^liaTa^^tlEtfiprj*^£ •*V/ |^:"'H-^''-HH fln - r- ' _K'* t B^^_s____sr^9-' sl-^ I__H_H__ _____________* I-"*-*** I-till- !_■- I GAINING A HOME Certainly It Is worth while to go into the truth about Canada—we?tern Can ada, the wheat country, the "Empire of the North," the "Last Great West," as it is called In railroad and government literature, says Fred Bates Johnson in Success Magazine. At present we are hearing a great deal about this new country in the northwest. Railroads are flooding the United States with literature, Ailing the magazines with promises and conducting excursions into the country; the Canadian gov ernment, working hand in hand with the railroads to get Immigrants from "the states" —men and women who will go up there to live, grow up with and develop the country. . In the past we have heard some Intimations about the possibilities of the country; in the fu ture the campaign will be waged with increasing fervor ■ and - enthusiasm. Canadian lands for the American set tlers—a homestead for $10— virgin grain land for the asking. , . ",:"'•, Such captions are not to be disre garded In the United States. Speaking by and large, there are no more new lands left in the states— no homesteads to be had for the asking. Our free lands have been taken up; our west has been Inclosed. We realize this when we remember that at the opening of the Flathead, Coeur d'Alene and. Spokane reservations In Montana, Ida ho and Washington last summer, not one rin twenty-five applicants got a homestead. The twenty-four who were disappointed turned back to their roll top desks or their meager farms or their cllentless offices, realizing that from a practical standpoint the impos sible had happened— the Inexhaustible west had become exhausted. Some of the twenty-four listened to the golden promises held out by the Canadian gov ernment with reference to Its free lands in the northwest. Undoubtedly Its claims are worth considering. Annette Kellermann PREACHER AND THE POTATO To sum up then, says William Justin Harsha in an interesting article on how a preacher became a successful home steader appearing in the August Suc cess Magazine, the professional man with $1000 or so can win - out on a homestead, if he is content to go slowly at first and feel his way as he goes. He can have as many of the pleasures of life as the average city dweller. We have the magazines, the papers, a tele phone, dally mails and a town at nine miles distant. .We can hunt. and fish if we choose, for this Is a great country for game. In the morning we can read Cunning ham or write our Immortal treatise on Esoteric Theology and in the afternoon we can hie forth to hoe in the fields. At night we lie down to rest, full of thanks to the Giver of all good, full of Joy mr family peace and content, wor ried by nothing, in fear of no one and subject to none, for our waters shall not fall and our potato is sure. SCRAPPING SKYSCRAPERS , Mr. Dooley once remarked that ' ln Chicago they ' were tearing down a twenty-story building to make way for a modern structure. This was consid ered a great joke in the Dooley days, yet that is exactly what is happening today, in New York. The Gillender building at Wall and Nassau streets, twenty stories high, twelve years old, steel framed and thoroughly substan tial, is bslng torn down to make room for a "skyscraper." There is more rent to the square Inch of ground, the owners figure, in a tall building than In a squatty twenty-story structure. We used to let buildings stand until they showed, signs of falling; now we tear them down when the profits begin to wabble.—Success Magazine. "DANSE DOMESTICA" An immense audience gathered Mon day afternoon at the Theater of Inter pretive Art to see Mile. Hopupll and her associates in her much-heralded "Danse Domestlca." The orchestra played a prelude, poet ically typifying the dropping of a tray full of breakfast dishes, after which the curtain rose upon the poorly furnished flat of an ultimate consumer. The great terpslchorean artist was discovered picking up the fragments of dishes, and when this task was com pleted she made a leap into the air emblamatic of life with nothing to live on. Alighting, she whirled madly across the stage and flung herself In an oi^t i< y of wrath astride of the baby's crib. Laying the cause of her tempera mental outburst across her lap, she gave it its regular morning spankish ment, accompanied In the orchestra by wonderful cacophoriic dissonant The dancer then began a scherzo movement among the pots and pans, than which nothing more beautiful could be imagined, especially those themes that pertained to the raping of the skillets and the emptying of the ashes. With a tragically executed pas soul the performer symbolized the woman who revolts at the sickening ta'k of halfsollng the trousers of a nlne-dollar a-week husband. And thus the pitiful story went on, sweeping the emotions, visually and auricularly, through the getting of the morning mail, the wrathful tearing up of the butcher's bill, the scrubbing of tho pantry shelves, the putting on of the pot for dinner and the argument with the Iceman through the dumbwaiter, to culminate in a climax of soulfully sug gestive kicks and wiggles as the ha rassed woman simultaneously slammed the door in the face of the gasping rent agent, Jerked eight burning pies out of the oven and hurled the cat from the interior of the milk pitcher Throughout the latter portion of th ■ performance the artist disclosed vistas of beauty and set a new standard in the art of genre dancing.—Success Mag azine. TO LIVE THE IDEAL "Whatever the'troul is taught to ex pect, that it will build." Our heart longings, our soul asp ra tions, are something more than mere vaporings of the imagination, says Ori son Swett Marden in Success Maga zine. They are prophecies, they are couriers, forerunners of things which might become realities. They are measures of our possibilit'es. They in dicate the height pf our aim, the range of our efficiency. The sculptor knows that his Ideal is not a mere fantasy of his imagination, but that it is a prophecy, a fore shadowing which will carve itself In "marble real." When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relat'onship with it in proportion to the strength and per sistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize It. The trouble with us Is that we live too much in the material side of life and not enough in the ideal. We should learn to live mentally in the ideal which we wish to make real. If we wish to keep young, for ex ample, we should live in the mental state of youth; to be beautiful, we should live in a mental state of beauty. The advantage of l'vlng in the ideal Is that all imperfections, physical, mental and moral, are eliminated. We cannot see old age because old age is Incompleteness, decrepitude, and these qualities cannot exist in the ideal. In the Ideal everything is youthful and beautiful; there is no suggestion of decay, of ugl'ness. The habit of living in the Ideal, therefore, helps us wonderfully because it gives a perpet ual pattern of the perfection for which we are striving. Living much In the ideal Increases hope and faith in our ultimate perfection and divinity, be cause In our vis'on we see gl'mpses of the reality which we instinctively feel must somet'me. somewhere be ours. The Ideal is not a mere fantasy of the imagination; it is a foretell'ng of what should come true. CONSIDERATE At the time of King Edward's fun eral a large crowd was assembled near Victoria station as King George was driving by to meet the kaiser "Take off yer hat, Johnny." said a British workman to his small son, "fer this Is the new king a-coming an' I wouldn't like 'im to think 'c wasn't wanted."— Success Magazine. 5