and one-third of a pound of some of the following vegetables:
asparagus, turnips, cucumbers, parsley, watercress, celery, kale or
cabbage. Fluids have a fattening tendency, and they must be taken in
small quantities.

The drinking should be confined to tea, coffee or water, and never
should be taken at mealtime, nor within one hour of a meal. This is
peremptory, for food will produce fat much quicker and surer when
watered by some good beverage.

Refreshing Sleep.

What is the correct method to pursue in preparing for a trip into
dreamland, for there is a right as well as a wrong way? The business
of disrobing should be so systematized that attending to all the
little niceties included in the process will become, after a while,
second nature. There is something more to be done, let us assure you,
in addition to putting your hair up in curl-papers and dabbing a bit
of cold cream on your face, if you would wake up in the morning
looking as fresh as a rose. In the first place, do not put off these
important preparations until you are so heavy-lidded that you are
ready to give everything belonging to the toilet the go by. And now
for the first step. Early in the evening your sleeping apartments
should be thoroughly aired by dropping the window from the top and
raising it at the bottom.

The current of fresh air is especially important when the room has
been, as so many sleeping apartments are, in constant use all day. Ten
minutes will be quite sufficient for toning up the atmosphere. Now
close the window and allow the room to become thoroughly warmed, that
you may not experience a chill while taking a rub down. Prepare a big
bowl of tepid water, into which you sprinkle a small quantity of
ammonia or borax. Take a Turkish towel, which is much better than a
sponge, wring it out as dry as possible, and, grasping a corner in
each hand, give the spine a vigorous rubbing. Have at hand another
Turkish towel, and as you bathe the body in sections, dry as quickly
as possible.

From the points of your rosy toes to the curve of your soft throat you
are a blushing model of the charming effects of the bath. When
finished, slip over your head a soft little shirt, high neck and short
sleeves (a white silk or lisle thread is the best), the rosy skin
beneath giving it the appearance of being lined with pink silk. Then
comes the nightrobe, and next the pajama or lounging robe, which may
be of anything, from flannel to eider down.