Women Who Are Sinfully Plain.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 12, 21 March 1908, Page 67

Women Who Are Sinfully Plain.

A RECORD OF SOME AFTERNOON CALLS. “Most women are plain—sinfully plain,” remarked a man to me, with brutal frankness, at a gathering of women the other day. But was he far wrong? says a lady writer in the “Daily Mail.” Look around any assembly of women, and what do you see? You cannot fail to see that most women show signs of ageing early in life. A woman ought to be at her best between the ages of thirty and forty, but many are barely out of their twenties before they begin to fade. ■ Let any woman set out on a series of afternoon calls, and make a mental note of the results. What does she find? Very often several women in bad health and consequently lacking in beauty: Found Mrs A. looking very seedy; said she was nearly mad with neuralgia all last night; never slept a wink. Miss B. at home with an awful cold. Mrs C. suffering from rheumatism. Mrs D.'up in town yesterday' to see a specialist. Has been very bad with neuritis. Mrs E. recovering from an operation for appendicitis. It is almost impossible to pay a round of calls without finding a state of things very much as portrayed above. The habits of the woman who is sinfully plain are as follows: Before rising she partakes of a cup of tea and thin bread and butter. An hour later she breakfasts on coffee, hot roll and butter, fried bacon, or an egg, marmalade. About three hours later she partakes of a substantial lunch—meat, sweets, biscuits, and butter. Two and a-half hours pass and afternoon tea appears—tea, hot scones, and cake. In another two and a-half hours she is seated at the dinner table—four or five courses, followed by coffee. Bedtime comes, but there is no rest for the poor, abused internal organs. They have been struggling since early morning to deal with the heterogeneous mass of food thrust upon them, and they will have to do so through the long night watches. ■ Note the habits of the woman of superb health and beauty. She rises early and devotes twenty minutes to physical exercises. Then follows a cold or tepid bath. An hour before breakfast she drinks a pint of distilled cold water. Breakfast consists of plenty of stewed or fresh fruit, pure wholemeal bread, butter, perhaps an egg; the entire meal being thoroughly masticated. After breakfast outdoor exercise: but the time is usefully employed, often to the benefit of others. DO THEY DESERVE IT? An hour before her second meal (dinner) she drinks another pint of distilled water. (No liquid at meals.) Five, or six hours intervene between the two meals, hence her appetite, is keen, and th simplest fare tastes delicious. At five o'clock another pint of distilled water. At seven o'clock a simple meal of fresh or stewed fruit only. The day is over. The stomach and the other Organs Of the body have done their fair" share of w’brk and no more!' The pure food has made pure blood. ■ Pitre blood spells health.' Health fepi'lls beauty. If' most women "life plain”l—they deserve to be!—G. H.