Introduction
TO SLENDERNESS

Not skinniness! It’s no lightmatter, Hortense, this questionof figures. You can figure on that.Even the new styles won’t hidethe awful fact that you bulgewhere you shouldn’t, OR that youown no curves where you should.

Yes, it’s a tough racket melting the too,too solid flesh. Figure how much you havecrept up on the scale, let your doctorfigure how fast you dare go down withoutlanding—flop—farther than you ever intended.This little book? It’s encouragement,blandishment, a little judiciousenragement—but it isn’t medicament.

How about reducing tricks? Well,Dumpling, let’s take a look. Glands? A3slick trick for a few, probably not you.Bath salts? They dissolve the budget,nothing more. Laxatives? Money in thepromoter’s pocket. Thyroid and otherdrugs? No, no, NO!

Suppose you want to go up the scale?Put some curves in place of angles? Improvethe pep and disposition? Reversewhat the fat gal does. Where she envies,you eat. Where she hustles, you rest.When she refuses a snack, you snatch it.

Either way you go on the scale—up ordown—it comes back largely to how muchyou eat, when, and most important, what.Either way you go, don’t neglect—milk,cheese, eggs, meat, and fish—fruits, vegetables,and whole-grain cereals. Emphasizesalt and water to gain, cut down onboth to lose.

Cheerio, whichever way you’re bound.The diet does it. You can figure on that,lady!

DESIRABLE WEIGHTS FOR WOMEN
Ages 25 and Over

After thirty it is better to be weighed inthe balance and found wanting.