ANTI-FAT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 3, 28 September 1907, Page 3

ANTI-FAT.

An up-to-date .mania is for emaciation. : I3oth in London and Paris now the fashionable woman's talk is largely of Turkish baths, anti-adi-poso'diet, and such things. It is not only tho very stout who try to get thin, but tho thin who try to got thinner. • The lath is now the model for tho human form divine, according to the fashionable woman. Morning hours'aro now given up to tho bathing operations, which tako hours. Sonic of tho following dietary rules read sensibly, as they all point to a remedy for over-feeding, awl thoso are what the anti-fat Parisians aro following: — Orangeade -or milk, is aippt-d with a very light luncheon,' a cup of tea for dinner -with vegetables and fruit. A lady paid 3000 francs to n beauty doctor for the following prescription:—Feed only on vegetables cooked by steam; drink nothing but orangcado, and only after meals; banish sugar and salt from .your table; sleep with your window wido open; dip your hair every evening in nil-infusion of walnut leaves, then spread the hair over-the pillow and lot it dry. / / ODD FANCY DRESS PARTIES.Cheap fancy dress parties cause a good deal of amusement, and aro easily arranged. A Sydney hostess . gavo an evening party recently, the iirited guests to which wore ached Id dress as oddities, and tho less they paid to obtain the result tho better t.liO hostess was pleased. The- men arrived as nigger minstrels, musical burglars (a la Charles Sweet, in assorted rags), trumps, sugar-bags, r.boriginals with blue blanket and billy, 'sundowners, etc. Thu girls "ore gipsy dresses (nnglorilied editions), fancy prints, eto. Sumo looked very pretty dressed as lampshades, poppies, sunflowers, and various .'lowers, canned out in crinkled p\jper. The latest idea is to give these parties for girls only, as hostesses found that, though the young men of their acquaintance didn't niincl dressing up, the girls "refused to make frights of themselves" if the entertainment was'to be •" mixed.". Tho dresses may not east more than a Few shillings, and therefore much ingenuity must bo exercised in the selection. ■ At a giris' party of this kind recently ono of the guests appeared as a brown paper parcel, and was tied up with string (alter she had stuffed herself to the correct square and oblong shape). PARISIENNES' FLAT FEET. Mr Bent, the Premier of Victoria, has been getting into trouble for saying that the Parisiennes have large flat feet, and no ono seems to think there can possibly bo anything in the statement. Yet, as a matter of fact (writes "Elaine"), the Premier is an observant man, and he is not G''. far wrong; but he alludes to the beet, not the foot inside it. The pnse'.'.t Paris fashion is to make the foot look as narrow r.ul slender as j possible, and, t r ) do this, the boots | :<ro made as much as "in. ionge; than the foot, with'narrow pquaro 'fit i. Tb.ve aiv i:n shoes sceii m ■!:■ oirc-et si all. The boats aro of jul.' e>!o'.!rs, yyc:!i as' [:r?.v, c!n:;::i!:''«. aiv! -y.it-',. an i i!:e ninis'irii ;':•..'.■■; i"' hi' :.:;'.'•.! ':':>V".".L. ,'i.'::!;.' "'' i