ts daily. For this
special purpose the mineral laxative waters are best.

=Diet for Reducing the Flesh.=--Fatty foods should be avoided, and so
should all drinks in excess. Foods containing sugar or starch should be
taken sparingly, as oatmeal, potatoes, rice, cakes, sweetened tea and
coffee. Milk is very fattening to many, hence should not be used. The
eminent Dr. Mitchell, of Philadelphia, instituted a course of treatment
for reducing the weight, which is quite rigid, but nevertheless
effective. The regular diet should be changed gradually until it meets
Dr. Mitchell's demands.

He prescribes outdoor exercise, and a diet of one cupful of milk and one
egg every three hours when awake. No other food or drink is allowed for
twenty days, when the list of foods is gradually extended. There are a
number of anti-fat remedies upon the market, but many of them depend for
a cure upon their power to disturb digestion, and thus interfere with
the general health.

=How to Gain Flesh.=--When it is natural for persons to be thin, it is
quite impossible for them to gain in weight under any kind of diet or
treatment. Many persons, however, are thin simply because some of the
digestive organs do not perform their work properly; or because the diet
is not the right kind.

Thin persons need good meats and some vegetables. If the digestion is
all right, then such meats as mutton, chicken, broiled bacon, broiled
ham, etc., may be used; also rare broiled steak, rare roast beef, etc.
Eggs may be used in any way except hard-boiled. Good bread, oatmeal,
cracked wheat, hominy, etc., are good.

Such indigestible foods as pork and veal, thin soups, cabbage, turnips,
pickles, pies, and pastries of all kinds should not be used.

Often a good preparation of cod-liver oil will increase the weight; and
this is also true of many of the extracts of malt. It is useless,
however, to try to increase the weight by using a generous diet, unless
the digestion is in good order. When the digestion is weak, the person
should take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound because of its power
to strengthen the digestion and enable the system to obtain all the good
possible from the food.

=Pimples, Rashes, Eruptions.=--Many persons, especially young girls, are
afflicted with pimples on the face, rashes, blackheads, etc. To cure
this condition it is necessary that the bowels be made to act regularly
each day, which is easily done by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham