"ROLLING" IN FAT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 3, 4 January 1908, Page 11

"ROLLING" IN FAT.

. « Miss Lillian Russell has laid the feminine world under an eternal debt of gratitude. Sue has not only made a great dißcovery, but she hastens to share it with her sistora in her misfortune. She might havo kept it to herself and enjoyed a solitary and a selfish triumph, but with the magnanimity of true philanthropy she hastens to spread out her treasures to the world and invite all and sundry to partake. Mifs Rusebll has discovered a new way to get rid of superfluous flesh. She says it is simple, speedy, and effective. Ne\er again will she allow herself to be beguiled by such nostrums as anti-fat, which is good for nothing except to givo to the neighbour's pigs. No more drugs for her, no more massage, no more special baths. She has tried tennis, golf, riding, boxing,, starvation, and worry, and while they are all useful in their way, they ace vastly inferior to the simple expedient of rolling about on the floor. ' Let Miss Russell 101 l her own story. She saya : — "Tho first thing in the morning I jump out of bed, don a sweater, get down on tho floor and start to roll. It's pretty strenuous, but tho results are wonderful. In threo weeks I lost seventeen pounds, and rolling did tho work. Cf course, you can't do it; long, for it is a very exhausting exercise, but if regularly every morning you will take a good roll you will Eoon fade away to a mere shadow. ' There is a simple chaim about this that appeals to the imagination. Most other forms of exercise require preliminaries, they pre-suppose knowledge of some kind, or they demand a rudimentary intelligence We can't all tako horseback exercise, because we haven't the horseb and can't afford to buy them, or eke we don't know how to rids and won't bother tt> learn. It is easy to tell U3 to tako walks, but we can't spare tho time, and anything; moro dreary than the '"constitutional" with nowhere particular to go it would be hard to imagine. But rolling about on the 'door requires nothing, absolutely nothing, not eveo intelligence or the "sweater" with which Miss Rustell clothes her fairy form. You simply get out of bed by the most direct route and there you are, with nothing to hinder except one's own sensa of the ludicrous and inconveniently placed furniture. We havo not actually tried it ourselves and no power on earth could persuade us to do so, but we can confidently recommend ifc to others. Did Miss Russell ever try skipping? Sone years ago a oelebrated physician said that it "laid over" any form, of exercise witt which he was familiar. Here again we have simplicity and availability in admirable combination. Nothing whatever is needed except a piece of rope and absolute privacy, although it is well to lay in a etock of prevarications for the benefit of those who want to know the meaning of the pounding on the floor with which initial efforts are usually attended. As a perspiration producer not even rolling on the floor can equal skipping, while the former has tho obvious advantage in the number of muscles it brings into play. Heaven forbid that we should treat this matter lightly. Tho woman who is fat is now unfashionable. She is unable to get into the corsets that have been decreed from Paris, and Miss Russell's advice comes therefore in the nick of time. — Argonaut.