FIGURE BEAUTIFYING

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 223, 16 June 1932, Page 4

FIGURE BEAUTIFYING

Dictates of Clothes DATES AND LEMONS (By Mavis.) Dominion Special Service. Loudon, April 20. Now that the line is so important to the correct wearing of smart costumes, many infallible “figure recipes” _ are being whispered among the beauties of Mayfair. One woman, whose silhouette has been the subject of admiration lately, has at last confided her secret to her friends. In her case', it appears, a diet of dates and lemon water for Oiree whole months “did the trick.” Somewhat monotonous, perhaps—but the lemon water may be hot or cold, and there is no limit to the number of dates one may eat, so long as no other food is mixed with them—and then think of the result! Another woman, a Norwegian visitor, who is famed for never ha -ig a headache and never being ill, declares that her wonderful health, figure, and complexion are all due to the snow baths which she has taken every day for th® last twenty years. But I think that if I were embarking on any course of figure beautifying I should feel inclined to go the “whole hog” and follow the directions of a Rumanian doctor, who declares that merely by.eating 3000 lemons one may become’“fit, strong, cheerful, and slim, with beautiful complexion, clear eyes, glossy hair, and —an angelic disposition”!