EARL’S DAUGHTER VISITS SLIMMING PARLOUR.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 145, 20 June 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)

EARL’S DAUGHTER VISITS SLIMMING PARLOUR.

“ MUST SUFFER TO BE BEAUTIFUL,” SHE SAYS.

LONDON, June 4. After a visit to a slimming parlour, Lady Patricia Ward, a daughter of the Earl of Dudley, former Governor-Gen-eral of Australia, said to a correspondent that a 1 refined torture chamber has appeared in Mayfair.”

Lady Patricia says that at the parlour she changed into a bathing dress in a luxurious cubicle and entered a huge room filled with every conceivable

gymnastic gadget on which other women were concentrating. Many were lying on mattresses, jerking their arms and legs to the time of a jazz tune. “ I first tried 4 the camel ’, a curious humped saddle, to which I clung while it lurched, rolled and swayed,” says Lady Patricia. “Then I mounted a stationary cycle and pedalled off miles of energy.’ Later I trotted, cantered and galloped on a mechanical horse, rowed a stationary boat, and finally faced a percussion machine, whose leather lists pummelled mv body. I came out after having lost half a pound in half an hour. Ode certainly must suffer to be beautiful."