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 you how to reduce them to their normal size; also ye who are too flat-stomached, and caved-in at the loins and chest; with small shoulders, arms, and spindling legs; and we will show you how to enlarge and round out all these parts to more comely proportions. Never say again, 'I am too old to exercise.

One of the best-known actresses on the American stage, famous for her beauty, finding that she was getting too stout, not only took special exercises, to reduce her weight, but, when exercising, is said to have worn unusually heavy clothing over the very parts where she wished to get thinner—a common practice, by the way, in training horses. Indeed getting down one's weight seems to be done partly by exercise, and largely by perspiration. The principle is brought out with clearness by all the artists in this line—notably by Dr. Emerson and by Checkley—that the active continued use of any set of muscles directly reduces and takes off any adipose matter just around them. The energy and will-power to do this work, fleshy people often lack. And so they stay fat—or, rather, get fatter. Indeed, fleshiness is often so hostile to hard work, that Napoleon is said to have lost all his battles after he began to get fat.

But fleshy people can get rid of their fat—if they will. A Connecticut lawyer in active practice—so stout that his eyes seemed to be gradually closing—asked us how to get down his weight. We told him it was idle to suggest, as he would not do it. But he was so earnest that we said: "Take a lot of hard, sweating, muscular work every day—of any sort you like." Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler, the famous sewing-machine maker, had a fast-walking horse. Daily our man and that horse tried to see which could walk fastest for an hour. Rivulets flowed off our friend; but he was of good timber, and